Tim> Does anyone know how to get diald to work? I'm almost there; I can Tim> get it to do it's thing, dial, connect to my ISP, start sending data, Tim> but after about 30 seconds, diald kills pppd, and reports that it has Tim> timed out waiting for ppp to connect. :/ Since I was in the middle of Tim> receiving an html document from the web, I'd say it's safe to assume Tim> that pppd was already connected. Anyone got any ideas how I can cure Tim> this VERY annoying problem?
Diald can be configured to do almost everything. Using it "out of the box" with Eric Schenk's original /etc/diald.conf as packaged for Debian, I also noticed that I could die after some seconds, claiming inactivity. You can either modify to diald.conf so that it always stays up longer. What I did was to add a this to /etc/ppp/ip-up # send a couple of pings ping -c 20 -s 2048 -i 15 my.isp.provider >/dev/null Recently, I created a fifo /etc/diald.fifo, set the option fifo /etc/diald.fifo in /etc/diald.options and wrote the following script to issue commands as $ dial force etc. This is quite handy as a one-command interface for other scripts. Hope this helps, Dirk ----------------- /usr/local/bin/dial --------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # # dial --- communicate via fifo `/etc/diald.fifo' with the diald daemon # # edd 12 Jul 96 if [ $# -ne 1 ] then echo "Usage: dial <command>" exit 1 fi case "$1" in block|unblock|force|unforce|down|up|delay-quit|quit|reset|queue) echo $1 >> /etc/diald.fifo ;; *) echo "Unknown (or unsupported) command: $1" exit 1 ;; esac exit 0 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Dirk Eddelb"uttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd