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Re: How to establish a semi-permanent dial-up connection?



> What I'm trying to setup is this: When I boot-up my system, I want to get
> a dial-up ppp connection to my ISP and grab mail.  I want this to happen
> without having to manually run pon after I log in.

Rename /etc/ppp/no_ppp_on_boot to /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot .  Ppp will then
come up when you boot.

> I also want to be able to detect if the line has gone down and re-connect
> in that event.

Add 'persist' to /etc/ppp/peers/provider .  Pppd will then attempt to
recconnect when the link goes down.

> Where do I put the fetchmail-up script to make this happen properly?

If it is in ip-up.d it will get run whenever ppp comes up regardless of
why.
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