Running PPP via crontab

2005-04-10 Thread Odhiambo Washington
Hello everyone, I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when I manually run through the dialup procedure. I don't have much problem configuring

Re: Running PPP via crontab

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew P.
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello everyone, I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when I manually run through the dialup procedure. I don't have

Re: Running PPP via crontab

2005-04-10 Thread Odhiambo Washington
* Andrew P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20050410 14:44]: wrote: Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello everyone, I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when

Re: Running PPP via crontab

2005-04-10 Thread Andrew P.
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hello Andrew, et al, I figured out I could use ppp -background sucks (where sucks is the ISP label in ppp.conf). This seems to be what I am looking for, no?? I can run it on the command line. I hope it will do same thing via cron. Frankly, I don't seem to know what