and of course you could just use cron to ping the host every few minutes.
crontab entry:
*/3 * * * * ping myisp.net
would do it every three minutes.
Jack Barnett wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, Michael Scottaline wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, 01 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > > does anyone know of a program or script that will periodically poll my
> ISP so
> > > > that it doesn't disconnect when it thinks the connection is idle?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > thanks.
> > > ================================
> > > If your ISP is providing you with a POP3 e-mail account, have
> > > something like biff check for mail, say every three minutes or so.
> > > This will probably keep the connection (depending on your ISP)
> > > Mike
> >
> > Mike,
> > I think biff, at least xbiff, just checks for mail on your own system.
> > But fetchmail will poll on periodic basis, start up using 'fetchmail -d
> > 3600' to poll each hour. set to 600 for 10 min. polls.
> > Warren
> >
> >
> > * | Warren Hrach, San Diego, CA 92107 | *
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> >
>
> Also a quick perl script works, I have one on my system that looks something
> like this (IIRC):
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>
> $sleep = "180"; $host = "myisp.net";
> while (1 == 1)
> { system ("date");
> system ("ping $host");
> print ("Staying Alive, Staying Alive, o o o yea, Stayiiiiiiiing
> Alliveeeeee\n");
> system ("sleep $sleep"); }
>
> Then run it with something like
>
> ./alive &
>
> Jack
>
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