On Thu, 29 Nov 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to write a script which will keep my adsl connection up > all the time.
good for you, although many such scripts have already been written. it's a useful excersize, if nothing else. > I tried something like running : > while 1 > rm -rf /var/run/pp* > pptp parameters nodetach & > end > but from some reason, whenever i ran it, it worked for about 10 > minutes, and after ten minutes, the pptp was detached and alot of > pptp process started ( even that the connection was still alive ). that pptp line looks oxymoronic. how are 'nodetach' and '&' supposed to work together? i use a script written by haif gelfenbeym, called adsl-connect. see it here: http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-il%40cs.huji.ac.il/msg12428.html etzion also wrote a good script, but i dont have a url handy. etzion? studiously avoiding all political discussions, mulix -- mulix http://www.pointer.co.il/~mulix/ http://syscalltrack.sf.net/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
