Re: diald question

[Pollywog <pollywog@shadypond.com>]

On 14-Mar-99 John Hasler wrote:
> Pollywog writes:
>> Do I need *both* a diald.conf and a diald.options?
> 
> "diald.conf"?  I don't have one, nor does the diald man page mention it.
> 
>> I am using only diald.options and cannot seem to get disconnect-timeout 0
>> to work when I put in in diald.options.
> 
> 'disconnect-timeout' doesn't do what you want.  It tells diald how long to
> wait for the disconnect script to complete before giving up.  Most people
> don't need a disconnect script at all.  You want 'redial-timeout'.

Thanks, I probably misunderstood the diald man page.
I had a diald.conf when I used Caldera OpenLinux, but it does not seem
necessary in Debian.  The two files have the same content, just different
names, I believe.

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Andrew

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