i'm making a rpm for myself to suit the requirements of my site, and maybe others it's a dialup isp a preset connection from say 10pm to 1am with a page in e-smith-admin that allows you to change these times an option for connecting at other times via a web button in e-smith-admin and other things like an option of mailed notification of on each dialup and changing fetchmail to pickup mail each minute when ppp is up if i change some of the templates rather than just adding fragments do i use /etc/e-smith/custom-templates to put my changes in (and the unchanged fragments) then if it something breaks a rpm -e will return the system to it's original state in diald.filter lines that have restrict 1:00:00 12:00:00 5 5 whatever down lower the connection but do restrict 8:00:00 * 5 5 whatever up make a connection i could not make a connection this way , did i have to restart diald or send it a signal ? alternatively i can send diald a FIFO to raise the line but 'up' gives a disconnect 'idle' after 0.2m when diald.filter is basically empty when 'force' remains connected so use force ? finally if i turn the modem off and send a force an unforce doesn't stop diald trying to dialup and filling up the logs ? regards stephen
