On Sunday 04 Apr 2004 5:02 am, robin wrote: > > On Saturday 03 April 2004 13:28, Keith Powell wrote: > > I have been looking to see if it is possible to get KPPP to > > automatically disconnect a dial-up Internet connection after a > > certain amount of time (say, 3 minutes) of inactivity. Having > > searched all through the various Internet configuration files, I > > can't find a way of doing it. Disconnection appears to only to be > > able to be done manually. > > > I think the app you're all looking for is wvdial. You can set it to log > you in automatically (even with ISPs that use terminal-based > authentication), reconnect automatically, disconnect if idle for a > specified period of time and a whole load of other stuff. It's not on > the 10.0 CDs, but is on the mirrors. Just download it and edit > /etc/wvdial.conf to your needs. No GUI required. > > The only glitch is that it normally only runs as root. There are three > ways round this (other than doing "su" of course): > > 1. Make it suid (never tried this); > 2. Change permissions of wvdial, wvdial.conf and /dev/modem (or > whichever device your system works); > 3. Have it started automatically on boot (this used to work fine on 9.2, > but is rather flaky on 10.0 - sometimes it works, mostly it doesn't). > > Obviously you don't want to try option 3 if you're on a pay-per-minute > connection! It's probably not advisable for situations where security is > a major issue, such as a server, but then how many people run servers > via a modem? > > Sir Robin
Thanks for your help, Robin. I have installed wvdial, and it's working as I want. At the moment, it is only usable when running it as root, but I will experiment with permissions to make it run as a user (me!). It isn't on my Download Edition CDs (I've found before that there are some packages missing from them, which should be on them), So I had to get it from the Internet. There has been another suggestion of adding an idle time in /etc/ppp/options. That works as well, so I now have the choice. Cheers Keith
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