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autoppp for persistant PPP connections



Hello,

I have created an extremely simply autoppp package, available at:

<URL:http://www.microcomaustralia.com.au/debian/pool/autoppp/>

While I don't think such a small package is suitable for inclusion
in Debian, I thought others might find it of some use.

 new debian package, version 2.0.
 size 3270 bytes: control archive= 1002 bytes.
      20 bytes,     1 lines      conffiles            
     544 bytes,    15 lines      control              
     255 bytes,     4 lines      md5sums              
     440 bytes,    15 lines   *  postinst             #!/bin/sh
     162 bytes,     7 lines   *  postrm               #!/bin/sh
     337 bytes,    12 lines   *  prerm                #!/bin/sh
 Package: autoppp
 Version: 0.0-1
 Section: unknown
 Priority: optional
 Architecture: all
 Depends: ppp
 Installed-Size: 41
 Maintainer: Brian May <bam@snoopy.apana.org.au>
 Description: Automatically control PPP dialing
  This package will delay redialing a PPP connection by an
  increased time each time a connection fails. This will save
  on phone bills for permanant connections which are often
  left unattended when something goes wrong. Note: the PPP
  connection "provider" is used, and must not be set with
  with "persist" or "ondemand" options.

[583] [scrooge:bam] ~/source/debian/autoppp/autoppp-0.0 >dpkg -c ../autoppp_0.0-1_all.deb
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:38 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./etc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./etc/init.d/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1818 2002-10-03 10:15:50 ./etc/init.d/autoppp
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./usr/bin/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./usr/sbin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      5126 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./usr/sbin/autopppd
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:37 ./usr/share/doc/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2002-10-03 10:39:38 ./usr/share/doc/autoppp/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       114 2002-10-03 10:22:11 ./usr/share/doc/autoppp/README.Debian
-rw-r--r-- root/root       980 2002-10-03 10:24:27 ./usr/share/doc/autoppp/copyright
-rw-r--r-- root/root       158 2002-10-03 10:17:16 ./usr/share/doc/autoppp/changelog.Debian.gz

Unfortunately I haven't yet been able to retest it for some time,
because I use ISDN now (this probably means I am not the ideal
maintainer) but would be very surprised if anything happened to break
it.

While a number of solutions have been proposed in the past for
this problem, I think it would be good to see a solution
formally included in Debian...

Comments anyone? Does anyone wish to adopt this package?
-- 
Brian May <bam@debian.org>



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