[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 20 Nov 2001, at 23:46, Martijn Kruithof wrote: >>Are you talking about a linux system?!
Of course! >>Add a cron job executing: >> >>ifup ppp0 (or your distro's equivalent to get up the dail up link) >>sleep 10 ; mprime -c ; sleep 5 ; ifdown ppp0 >> >>Every week for instance (also configure mprime accordingly) >>Configure mprime to not contact priment automatically. >> > > ... but isn't there an option for autodial - in linux as well as > windoze? You probably mean "diald", although manual dialling seems best for home use to me. > Personally I don't use it because I've had trouble with autodialled > connections not dropping - and I'm on a pay-by-time connection :( They also don't know when not to drop - sometimes in the middle of doing something. Again, seems best for unattended machines. > BTW if you use the above script you should set your "days > between sending new end dates" to _6_ rather than 7. The reason > is that mprime -c will do nothing unless prime.spl exists, and > prime.spl will not be created until the next multiple of 65536 > iterations following N days since the last PrimeNet checkin. This is all good information. Thanks. To conclude then, I presume the "-c" method is the current "accepted" way of doing it. However, my suggestion of being able to run an arbitrary program has obviously now been heard by those who matter, so we can now wait to see whether such a feature appears in the next version/release. -- ======= Gareth Randall ======= _________________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.ndatech.com/mersenne/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
