> On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Michael Klama wrote: > >> This has also been posted on the ppp list but answers are hard to come >> by on that list. >> >> Can someone please help me with a problem I am having with my dialup >> shutting down every night? I manually start my internet dialer and >> use it all day and then leave the server on all night and when we try >> to connect the next day, we have no access! When I bring the dialer >> up to reconnect (using KDE by the way), it says that kppp is already >> being used. I then have to restart the service in order to get it to >> work. Could someone please shed some light my way? > > ISP idle timeout? Try pinging every few minutes (to hold open the > connection): > > # crontab -e > > */2 * * * * /bin/ping -c 4 www.your_isp.com >/dev/null > > > -- > Chris Kloiber, RHCE > Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.
Chris, as I suggested in my posting - use: ping -c 4 www.your_isp.com &> /dev/null Otherwise cron will keep sending messages to root when the connection is supposed to be down (not a good idea :-) but I did make another mistake: use 3,18,33,48 (not 58 :-) -Cheers -Andrew -- MS ... if only he hadn't been hang gliding! _______________________________________________ Seawolf-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/seawolf-list
