I don’t dial-up (although I'm remote enough and don’t have broadband but I have, after years, managed to get myself a fixed 64kb connection) - but I can't see how dialup would be a problem because its only one program - mythfilldatabase - which starts, pulls down the data (which takes quite a while I find for the UK/Ireland listings) and then is done so I'd imagine it would be an easy job to make a small script with ppp dialup, mythfilldatabase and ppp disconnect and then put this script into /etc/crontab. But I don’t have experience with this and wont have either. It would be a problem if mythfilldatabase hung or anything as it might hold your phone line open but then again I'd guess that you could configure a no-activity timeout on the ppp dialup.
Derek PS I do use dialup in a very remote location but there I run ppp dial manually (with SuSE 9.1 and ISDN chan_capi) and then I kill the connection manually too. I don’t use mythtv there at all but the ppp connect/kill works so well that I'd say it would do the job just fine with a script - again I don’t do this with mythtv so what I'm saying is my untested opinion only. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Louie Ilievski Sent: 28 January 2005 18:31 To: Discussion about mythtv Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: no one on here uses dial up then? A tear rolls down my face as I pity the dial-up users :-) ~Lou * Cable for many years, and NEVER going back! On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:29 -0700, Alexander Petkov wrote: > Hmm I still do <blush>. > > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.809 / Virus Database: 551 - Release Date: 09/12/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.809 / Virus Database: 551 - Release Date: 09/12/2004
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