>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 bringup or drop a connection based on whether there is any >traffic that is being sent/received. So all I do is send a SIGHUP signal to >diald (which is the "please go online" signal) and if there is no email >waiting, diald will drop the line in about 30 seconds. If there is email, >demon sends it to me, causing traffic, causing diald to keep the link up >until there is no traffic left. I didn't know about SIGHUP - that makes diald definitely more attractive. But I still want to do a big "batch download" while I'm having tea - if I add diald to my setup, and then change from doing pon to "kill -HUP diald", will all the ip-up.d scripts run (I assume that once they start, they will generate traffic so that the line stays up until they finish). This looks like a good answer - thanks. Paul. PS Is there a way to make slrn *default* to --spool mode? I'm forever typing just "slrn", which fails because news.demon.co.uk isn't available. With diald, I'd be dialing up every time ... :-) I guess an alias does it...
