Odhiambo Washington wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail
server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost
everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when I manually
run through the dialup procedure.
I don't have much problem configuring what he will run on this box, but
one aspect has pinned me down. The ppp _MUST_ not run in "auto" or
"ondemand" modes. It must be initiated manually.
I would like to make a crontab entry that will run ppp after every one
hour. I don't have a problem with crontab, but how to invoke ppp via it
;)
I'd appreciate some hand-holding here. What shall I put as the command
that will be run by cron?
1 */1 * * * root /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat mtu
Something like this where "root" is the user
to run ppp as (remove it in case you're not
a superuser and not editing /etc/crontab),
"-ddial" is the mode - change it to whatever
you need, "-nat" enables nat (you can also do
it from ppp.conf), and "mtu" is the section
of ppp.conf to load.
Best wishes,
Andrew P.
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