Advise needed to write a script

[Chuck Swiger]

Mark Pearce wrote:
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> What I would like to do is the following.
> create a script that runs contineously in the background, checking on
> the IP address every 5 minutes, and if it's not there, run a script to
> kill and restart ppp.

How are you invoking PPP?  Try the "-ddial" option; it should convince PPP to 
reconnect without the need for an external script.

-Chuck