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Re: PPP connect - disconnect on demand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Chapman)
Thu Apr 4 21:18:38 1996
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 13:36:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Randy Chapman <chapman@cs.washington.edu>
To: Kevin M Bealer <kmb203@psu.edu>
Cc: root <root@mailhost.icon.co.zw>, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.960403234217.278E-100000@brando>
diald will bring the modem up anytime there is IP traffic, and bring it back
down when it is idle.
You could use cron to run something (sendmail -q ?) every few hours to process
outgoing mail, or popclient to get incoming or some suchness...
--randy
On Wed, 3 Apr 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 1996, root wrote:
>
> > Hi could anyone help?
> >
> > I am running a Linux box as an e-mail host with a ppp connection
> > to my service provider on one side and a number of UUCP dial-ins
> > on the other. Is there a script that will bring up and drop the ppp
> > connection on demand:
> >
> > ie: when there is x amount of mail to be sent or every n hours if there
> > is no outgoing mail.
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Graham Somers
> >
> > Systems Administrator
> > ICON Media
> > root@icon.co.zw
>
> I don't use it, but I believe 'diald' does this.
>
>
> __kmb203@psu.edu_____________________________Debian/GNU__Linux__1.3.77___
> So you think you know the real meaning of fear?
> Yeah, you think you do know, but I doubt it.
> When you sit in a shelter with bombs falling all over.
> And the houses around you are burning like torches.
> I agree that you experience horror and fright
> For such moments are dreadful, for as long as they last,
> But the all-clear sounds--then it's okay-- | -- Ilya Selvinskiy
> You take a deep breath, the stress has passed by. | (Taken from "The Sum
> But real fear is a stone deep down in your chest. | of All Fears" by
> You hear me? A stone. That's what it is, no more. | Tom Clancy pg. 182.)
>
>
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