<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Thanks Stuart</div><div><br></div><div>The error coming up is this:</div><div><br></div><div>/home/ladmin/Desktop/vpn.sh: 7: /home/ladmin/Desktop/vpn.sh: Syntax error: "else" unexpected</div><div><br></div><div>Appreciate your help on this. Like you say, it probably needs a "do nothing" type entry. What do you suggest?</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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<br><div><div>On 6 Jan 2014, at 20:27, Stuart Sears <<a href="mailto:stuart@sjsears.com">stuart@sjsears.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">On 06/01/14 20:17, Jean van Wyngaardt wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Hey guys<br><br>Working out this VPN script and it won't run because of line 7 (highlighted in bold below). Seeing as my scripting knowledge is limited, I thought I might check with you!<br></blockquote><br>for questions like this, it helps enormously if you also paste the error<br>message you receive :)<br><br><blockquote type="cite">#!/bin/sh<br>while [ "true" ]<br>do<br> vpnck=$(nmcli con status uuid 3e46a1d0-ab02-4d69-bd36-31dfcc01af6d)<br> if [[ $vpnck == *cryptocloud* ]]<br> then<br></blockquote><br>Surely there should be something here, no?<br>What do you expect the script to do if this condition is true?<br>Even a "that's okay, do nothing command" would be okay.<br><br><blockquote type="cite"> else<br> (sleep 1s && nmcli con up uuid 3e46a1d0-ab02-4d69-bd36-31dfcc01af6d)<br> fi<br> sleep 20<br>done<br></blockquote><br>Regards,<br><br>Stuart<br><br>-- <br>Stuart Sears RHCA etc.<br>"It's today!" said Piglet.<br>"My favourite day," said Pooh.<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>GLLUG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk">GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk</a><br>https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug<br></blockquote></div><br></body></html>