Hi! }-> Peter Bartosch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: }-> }-> > hi debians }-> > i´ve got only a short question: }-> > is it possible to restrict diald only to work at e.g. one hour per day?
}-> You can restrict certain portions of the config file to be operative [...] }-> down unless specifically requested at other times) or do you mean that´s the job of diald, isn´t it? }-> completely give up managing the link (both in terms of bringing it up }-> and taking it down on inactivity) during certain times of the day? }-> Either situation could be done with a config file change, though in }-> the second situation it's better to use a cron job. }-> }-> > i don´t use diald at the moment! it´s only to avoid reading more and more ,-) my problem: i had a big telephone-bill because my fetchmail/procmail had problems to fetch my mail. i want to limit my provider link to one hour per day, so your second possibility will do the right thing ps: i´m sorry about my late reply, but i´m a few days behind with reading debian-user -- until next mail ;) . ___ ---___ .--. ./ - / \ ___ ( DEBIAN `- |O O | | | ; --. | | |___| : GNU/Linux _- |<_) \. | __ eter | - / | || | `. www.debian.org / ' .\. ||__| ` --- . ___ .. ' | . .| | | artosch | .. .\. |___| / . ..| /,\ .__\ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | o| | | |O (| / student of technical computer science \.. \____\ / university of applied sciences krefeld (germany) \__/ \_/