Diald works perfectly for this situation. We are using the same kind of a
setup for our solution.
diald RPM is available with the redhat distribution if you are using redhat.
VaibhaV
----- Original Message -----
From: sreangsu acharyya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 2:42 PM
Subject: Re: [LIH] Help required Urgently regarding Cron
> On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Yunus Shaikh wrote:
>
> > Hello all
> >
> > i need my linux box to automaticaly dial internet at fixed times and
> > download my mails
> >
> > i use wvdial to dial and fetchmail to recieve the mails i want a script
to
> > automatically do these jobs at a specified times
> >
>
> you can use cron + wvdial +ipup + ipdown. I guess you already doing
> these, just add a cron job for starting and killing wvdial from time to
> time. The difficult question is how long should you give for the link tobe
> up so that all the mails are pulled and up time minimised at the same
> time.
>
> But a better soution would be to use diald, which has an advantage of
> shutting down the connection on its own when the traffic volume dies.
> Unfortunately i am yet to try diald myself
>
> sreangsu
>
>
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