Thanks for the help, Jonathan. >Correct. From the pppd man page: > > idle n Specifies that pppd should disconnect if the link > is idle for n seconds. Wow, I pulled an RTFM.. :-) >I can't duplicate this one in RedHat 5.2 with Linuxconf 1.13r8 and the >dialout module. Same here - apparently upgrading to the latest version fixed this earlier problem. > Some of the current menus do seem to assume a basic familiarity with > the underlying subsystems or tools. dialout is one of them. Agreed, but for itty bitty sysadmins in training, like myself, some of this is still unfamiliar... I figured it was going to be seconds, simply because most time units in Linux are counted in seconds - but then I've seen configuration tools that use their own units, so I wanted to be safe. Thanks again for the help, Harry --- You are currently subscribed to linuxconf as: [[email protected]] To unsubscribe, forward this message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
