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.
