On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Steve wrote: >> On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Jason Costomiris wrote: >> I run myown scripts for ppp not the pon. be that as it may.. all thats >> needed here is to make a script that greps for ppp / pon .. whatever. set >> this on a cron and bang! if the connection drops, your check script, run >> at intervals set via cron, sees it down and restarts it. > >This is what I use to keep my PPP link up. I have it in my >/etc/cron.minutely directory (same idea as the other cron.*ly dirs). > >It uses two seperate tests to see if pppd is running. I've found that >under some conditions, one test or the other can fail, but the two >tests together seems to work very well. Why don't you let init do this job?
Starting pppd form inittab with a line like: S1:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd -detach ttyS1 will start a new connection as soon as the old one dies. If you add lcp-echo-interval 10 lcp-echo-failure 3 pppd will terminate securely when the other end does not answer any more. Nils -- \ / | Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schillerstr. 61 / \ | 37083 Göttingen | ++49-551-71626 Micro$oft's final answer | http://www.nus.de/~nils