I  guess he could add the lines  "demand" and "idle 300" to his 
/etc/ppp/options file to get dial on demand and timeout after 300 seconds of 
inactivitiy. read "man pppd"

On Tuesday 19 June 2001 05:15, Michel Clasquin wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 June 2001 09:06, s wrote:
> > Well, it should do it by default unless you specify otherwise.  What
> > command are you using to start it?  ./setiathome    is the basic command
> > you need. Use -nice 19 to make it play nice when you use another app that
> > requires your resources.   One needs to use -stop_after_process  to get
> > it to not send back the info until you restart it (used for dial up
> > access I suppose).  So I'm not sure why yours isn't exhibiting the
> > default behavior without your having input instructions not to.
> > What command are you using?  What version are you using?
>
> I suspect what he wants is for seti to make a dialup connection, send and
> receive its stuff, then hang up the phone. Which in windows is a
> system-wide setting for all internet apps and is in fact set up somewhere
> in the MSIE defaults. I imagine this could be scripted in LInux
>
> Disclaimer: If you live anywhere (as in most of the world) where local
> calls are metered and billed, this is an extraorinarily bad idea.

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