Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed
I highly recommend diald. It is highly configurable and resilient.
timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu wrote:
> Hi,
> Tomorow I am leaving the country for about a month and I would like to
> ensure that my machine stays up and online the whole time so I can telnet in
> and access certain files. - So does anyone have any tips on things I should
> do / measures to put in place to minimize the chance of my machine going down /
> offline while I'm not here?
> I am running a hamm install with various slink packages. It is
> on a modem ppp link with "persist" set in /etc/ppp/options. It has "(mlddc <
> /etc/ppp/mymldata 2>&1) >> /var/log/mlddc" in ip-up, so it updates its monolith
> domain any time it goes online. Also I have set the file /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot.
> ...... The idea being that if the fone disconnects it will redial and reregister
> the new ip, and if power goes, when it comes back up it will dial when it boots
> up and reregister the new ip. The machine runs ftpd,telnetd,ssh and httpd.
>
> One thing that happens occasionally is that my ISP has problems and
> their gateway will stop working and packets don't get out, but it doensn't
> actually disconnect. So I was thinking I should put something in my cron.daily
> to restart the ppp connection - What should I use to restart pppd or kill it
> and start a new one?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Timothy Hospedales
>
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> E-Mail: timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu
> Date: 19-Jul-98
> Time: 12:41:39
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