On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Michael Klama wrote:

> This has also been posted on the ppp list but answers are hard to come by on
> that list.
> 
> Can someone please help me with a problem I am having with my dialup
> shutting down every night?  I manually start my internet dialer and use it
> all day and then leave the server on all night and when we try to connect
> the next day, we have no access!  When I bring the dialer up to reconnect
> (using KDE by the way), it says that kppp is already being used.  I then
> have to restart the service in order to get it to work.  Could someone
> please shed some  light my way?

ISP idle timeout? Try pinging every few minutes (to hold open the 
connection):

# crontab -e

*/2 * * * * /bin/ping -c 4 www.your_isp.com >/dev/null


-- 
Chris Kloiber, RHCE
Enterprise Support - Red Hat, Inc.

[root@earth root]# rm -rf /bin/laden



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