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1 Linux: VPNC Restart Script
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3 :author: Aaron Ball
4 :email: nullspoon@iohq.net
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7 == {doctitle}
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9 The VPN at my company is very... spotty... at best. When working from home, it
10 used to boot you about once every hour. For whatever reason though, it has
11 recently started booting sessions every five minutes. Now, the solution is of
12 course to speak with our networking folks rather than to write a script to fix
13 the issue on a client by client basis. Unfortunately, due to the culture and
14 various political situations, the networking folks will not fix this because
15 they don't believe it's an issue. All opinionattion aside, this sounds like an
16 opportunity for a nice shell script.
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18 To start things off, on my Linux box I use vpnc from the command line as I
19 don't want to install network manager due to additional resource consumption
20 (albeit a very small amount). That said, throw the following script in
21 +~/bin/vpnconnect+ and include +~/bin+ in your PATH variable (+export
22 PATH=~/bin:$\{PATH}+).
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24 [[source]]
25 == Source
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27 _Edit_: Found a pretty sizeable flaw in my script. Pulled the source until I
28 can sort it out.
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31 [[order-of-operations]]
32 == Order of Operations
33
34 . Check if vpnc is already running
35 * Start if it is not running
36 . Start an infinite loop
37 . Sleep 5 to keep from using too many resources
38 . Check cpu time on pid - if it is greater than 1 minute
39 * Kill pid and restart vpnc
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43 Category:Linux
44 Category:Drafts
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