Re: Bug#5014: diald won't do what I want
On 27 Oct 1996 moth@earth.orbits.com wrote:
moth >I'd like to configure diald so that it brings up the line at a certain
moth >time on certain days (which I can do easily using cron and telnet), and
moth >then leave the line up until the phone connection dies, for whatever
moth >reason.
moth >
moth >Unfortunately, I can't get this behavior. In spite of what the
moth >documentation says, neither impulse or two-way is suitable for this
moth >task. Neither of them prevents the phone from being redialed, unless
moth >I've configured diald to forcibly hang up the phone.
You can get that behavior with the regular ppp package.
Schedule a call to "pon" at the times you want the link to come up. No
need for diald. Schedule poff to switch it off. If the line dies the link
will stay down (can be changed by putting the "persist" option in )
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