>I notice that you are using dialup and you are based in
>Australia. Be careful with the dial-on-demand feature, you can
>end up with a large phone bill using an e-smith server in that
>fashion.
you keep saying this charlie !!
how do you recommend .au clients use e-smith ?
permanently connected ?
e-smith-isp is my attempt at a solution, half assed as it may be
two things need to be fixed and it could be a lot more usefull
1. fetchmail
if fetchmail was splt into fragments i could place
set daemon 60 into the directory to download mail contiuously
otherwise i use a template-custom or overwrite the original
2. diald.filter
a. work out a set of rules that never starts a connection
and add it as an option selectable by e-smith-isp
ie
etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/diald.filter/template-begin
#----------------------------------------------------------------
# Rules for TCP packets.
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
i've tried nothing or ignore everything, but i get a disconnect
'idle line' error after a few seconds
b. if random packets don't raise the line, i'd raise the line
using fifo up or diald USR1 as in startmail.
then the office ,outside, weekend permissions settings can be
recognised, modifying the e-smith-isp panel to allow the user to
change the zone times would be reasonably easy
currently i use down in diald.filter to stop requests but this
means i need to force the line up which introduces other problems
such as possible continual redials and ignores zone permission
settings.
it's getting a bit stupid as i now have a cron.hourly job that
checks if ppp is up else it restarts diald to flush out the force
fifo , at least i'm not likely to get a(nother) big bill
maybe i'm right off track, and their are methods other than diald
to raise the line. what would e-smith prefer ?
regards
stephen
