On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 12:47:25PM -0600, james rich wrote:
> I want to start a ppp connection from crontab. I want to monitor
> the line to reconnect if it drops. Later I want to end the connection
> from cron. I don't think I can use diald here because I want to maintain
> the connection regardless of traffic over the line. Am I wrong? I need
> something like xisp's auto-reconnect feature but usable from cron. Any
> suggestions?
Run pppd with the nodetach option from init.
Put this in /etc/inittab:
p1:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd call provider nodetach
replace provider with your provider's name
Run
init q
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