On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 17:31, Robin Turner wrote: > Brian Parish wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 00:55, Robin Turner wrote: > > > >>I've been playing around with kppp. Two questions: > >> > >>1. Are my frequent Mozilla crashes anything to do with the fact that I > >>now have it opening on connect rather than manually? > >> > >>2. Is there a way to get kppp to connect on startup? > >> > >>Sir Robin > > > > > > Regarding point 2, just put a: > > > > ifup ppp0 > > > > in an appropriate /etc/init.d file. Doing this will cause it to > > automatically redial if the link dies. Is that what you wanted? > > > > I now use DSL, but back in the dial-up days, I used a script controlled > > by a simple flag file mechanism to enable anyone on my home LAN to put > > the link up or down. You are welcome to that if the solution above is > > too inflexible. > > I'm not sure if your script is what I'm looking for, but I'd like to see > it (it would also be useful to post it here for the benefit of the masses!). > > And a word to KDE developers - the user-friendly graphic help pages are > very nice, but please write man pages in the normal format. A Linux/Unix > app without a man page is like a Perl script without perldoc. > > Sir Robin >
man pppd is your freind, as is /etc/ppp/options a file to confige such options as demand and idle settings
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