>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 again, diald started a SECOND copy of slrnpull (as per the >> ip-up.d scripts). This is definitely *not* right :-( > > This script should be changed to check for an existing running > copy first..
Probably true. It's what came as default, and it worked fine, so I never saw a reason to change it... >> 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 the bit >> of diald's functionality which monitors the link, and hangs up >> (preferably using poff) when the link goes idle for a specified length >> of time. > > Am I missing something? pppd has an 'idle' option that does just that. No, I'm missing something. I never saw this option. This is exactly what I want - I'll try it out tonight. Thanks for pointing this out to me! Paul.
