I wrote:
Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux?
Mitch Blevins writes:
Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm)
that I had heard of it working...
Actually, 'demand' purportedly does work in Linux but, according to the
documentation, filtering doesn't. As
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
From:Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your
query script) as the last item in ip-up.
Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a
To all who replied so helpfully, thanks. I now have a working setup.
Basically, the simplest solution for me is to add the idle option to
my ppp options, to hangup the line when there is no more activity.
A number of people suggested diald - it certainly looks good, and I may
well look into it
I've had a number of suggestions now, thanks to all who replied.
However, I've still got some problems.
First - for all those who suggested fetchmail, thanks but I am aware of
fetchmail, and it just does not do what I need. The reasons are complex
but conclusive... [If anybody really wants to
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
(actually, I'd
On Thu, 22 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
First problem was that I can't do the necessary kill -HUP diald-pid
to force the link up unless I am root. I don't really want a setuid root
script to do this... Also, getting the PID of diald is (slightly) tricky
in a script. Never mind, I can fix this
From: Michael Beattie[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, mwb wrote:
Although I haven't tried it, but you might try putting poff (or your
query script) as the last item in ip-up.
Exactly like what I would have suggested. Make a script such as 'zpoff' -
so the leading 'z' puts the file
On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 11:12:36AM +0100, Moore, Paul wrote:
The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no
reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald
proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link
came up again,
I use pidof for this purpose. Seems to work better,
for me at least, than searching for strings in the output
of ps You can discard the output of pidof and use the
return value. Something like shown below. Substituting the
program you want to monitor for suck.
while pidof suck /dev/null ; do
Moore, Paul writes:
Can diald be persuaded to do this (hangup-only, no dialup function)? If
not, how do I get at the ppp link stats to monitor packets going
through? If I can monitor packets/sec across the ppp link, or maybe
traffic over the modem, I could write my own monitor-and-timeout
Moore, Paul wrote:
[snip]
The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no
reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald
proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link
came up again, diald started a SECOND copy of
From: Mitch Blevins[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moore, Paul wrote:
[snip]
The second problem is the big one - Demon dropped the line on me (for no
reason I could see :-() while my slrnpull session was under way. Diald
proceeded to restart the link, as expected. Great. BUT, when the link
came up
Paul writes:
I've come to the conclusion that the best way of doing what I'm after is
to dial up manually, using pon. This is no problem. Diald doesn't really
offer me anything extra here, as I basically don't want to dial up on
demand... BUT, once I am online, I'd like to be able to get at
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
(actually, I'd like it to ask me whether it was OK to go
Mitch Blevins writes:
For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for.
Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote:
On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Moore, Paul wrote:
What I'd like to do is to write a script which starts the PPP
connection, then waits for all the ip-up.d scripts to run, and for my
mail to finish arriving, and then drops the connection with poff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mitch Blevins writes:
For the most part, pppd can now do most of what people use diald for.
Are you saying that 'demand' now works in Linux?
Don't use it. I had assumed from the man page and a VagueMemory(tm)
that I had heard of it working...
Anybody out there
Hello:
Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald)
which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the
link based on idle time.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Moore, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Debian Users' debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Wednesday, October 21,
From: Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello:
Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald)
which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the
link based on idle time.
Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two main reasons.
First, my ISP passes mail to me
From: Mitchell, James T1[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I use demon, who also use SMTP to send email while online. My 'solution' is
based on the fact that I use diald to manage connections.
Actually, I use demon, too :-) [Are there any good web pahes about how
to set up Linux with demon?]
diald will
Moore, Paul writes:
From:Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello:
Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald)
which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the
link based on idle time.
Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two main
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