Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed
Hi...
Heh, yeah. Problem is, there almost always seems to be some new thing
getting in the way of idle links I have to take care of. Sigh...
Alex
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 10:44:12 -0500
> From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <jjorgens@bdsinc.com>
> To: timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Keeping Machine Up - Advice Needed
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> 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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> > Date: 19-Jul-98
> > Time: 12:41:39
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