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Why not just run a mail client that checks your mail every so often?
Chris
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From: "trist post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 7:36 AM
Subject: RE: [STN] Adding an app?
> If I could make the STN-box call a program or script to "dial" I
> could of course put a program there that automate this stupid
> login sequence but I guess that if I select dialup STN will also
> assume that PPP over serial port will be used etc that is not
> apropriate in this case...
>
> Maybe a future version of STN could have support for calling some
> user supplied script if there have not been any activity for a
> user selected period and the user now try to do something versus
> the net. That would be perfect with this kind of cases.
>
> Sadly enough I think that this kind of "crap" from the ISPs will be
> more common since they want to force us to go to there "portals"
> as often as possible (I guess they dream of us using some
> "pay"-services, dream on I say!).
>
> Regards
> Magnus
>
>
> >From: Jim Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: RE: [STN] Adding an app?
> >Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 18:13:41 -0800
> >
> >Or you could do something different....
> >
> >(I am assuming you have a dial-up ISP, right?)
> >
> >What I did was take advantage of STN's "dial-on-demand" capability
> >- whenever I needed to use the internet from any machine on my
> >network, it would pick up the phone, do what I wanted, and hang up
> >when I was finished.
> >
> >BTW - as telephone time is expensive (not only to you for making
> >the call, but for them to mantain the CO equipment, and the RADIUS
> >servers, etc. - they pay the phone company (companies) for
> >co-locating equipment) and they cannot keep unlimited numbers of
> >lines - many ISP's do this. (every dial-up ISP I have ever worked
> >with, has this set up...)
> >Dial-on-demand gives you the best of both worlds - it's there when
> >you need it, and you do not tie up a phone line when it is not.
> >
> >Jim
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Given that there is room on the diskette or that I install STN
> > > on a HD is there some simple way to add/start a background
> > > process of my own on the STN box? I am quite a novice to linux
> > > administration etc and know nothing about the specific
> > > distribution used bu STN.
> > >
> > > I have a really boring ISP that disconect you after som time of
> > > inactivity and then you are forced to log-on using a hard to
> > > remember name/password selected by them :-( and to work-around
> > > this I want to use
> > >
> > > a small keep-alive program that should run on the external
> > > interface.
> > >
> > > Any sugestions about how to go about this?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Magnus
> >
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