Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 10:03:19 -0600 From: Anthony Rubin <tonyr@generalsearch.net> To: Peter <peterk@americanisp.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PPP and Crontabs Message-ID: <00110310031907.11909@tonyr.office.generalsearch.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011030811290.15286-100000@oxygen.americanisp.net> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0011030811290.15286-100000@oxygen.americanisp.net>
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On Friday 03 November 2000 09:47 am, Peter wrote: > Ok here is my setup: 56k dial-up, phone gets disconnected semi-often (call > waiting,peeps picking it up) > > I want a script that will (thru cron) check every thirty minutes if ppp is > connected or not, if not it will dial via "ppp -ddial isp" if it is, it > will exit and then in half in hour (thru cron again) check and basically > do same thing... > My question: Is there a program/script readily available for this kinda > thing? > How do I check if ppp is connected or not? > Inside cron, what is the exact setup ? (Under minutes just put 30, > everything else * ?) > ty. > > > --- www.nul.cjb.net --- The Power to Crash! > --- www.FreeBSD.org --- The Power to Serve! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message According to the man page the -ddial option should cause ppp to reestablish a connection if it is broken. You could setup a cron job to do a ping -c 1 <ipaddresshere>. That should make it dial again and won't hurt anything if you are already connected. -- Anthony Rubin GeneralSearch.Com, Inc. tonyr@generalsearch.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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