RE: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d
>From: Mitch Blevins[SMTP:mitch_blevins@mindspring.com]
>Moore, Paul wrote:
>> [snip]
>> The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no
>> reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald
>> proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link
>> came up again, diald started a SECOND copy of slrnpull (as per the
>> ip-up.d scripts). This is definitely *not* right :-(
>
> This script should be changed to check for an existing running
> copy first..
Probably true. It's what came as default, and it worked fine, so I never
saw a reason to change it...
>> I've come to the conclusion that the best way of doing what I'm after is
>> to dial up manually, using pon. This is no problem. Diald doesn't really
>> offer me anything extra here, as I basically don't want to dial up on
>> demand... BUT, once I am online, I'd like to be able to get at the bit
>> of diald's functionality which monitors the link, and hangs up
>> (preferably using poff) when the link goes idle for a specified length
>> of time.
>
> Am I missing something? pppd has an 'idle' option that does just that.
No, I'm missing something. I never saw this option. This is exactly what
I want - I'll try it out tonight. Thanks for pointing this out to me!
Paul.
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