From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 8 16:01:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA01480 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:01:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA01473 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 16:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.cguy.com (buxton-4.ime.net [206.231.148.133]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA25519 for ; Sun, 8 Sep 1996 19:01:18 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <32335039.394F@ime.net> Date: Sun, 08 Sep 1996 19:01:13 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b6 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: ppp -auto Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hope this gets out, My ISP's mail server has been awfull hungry here the last few days. Anyways, I've been trying to get ppp -auto working, I get it running, ps aux shows it, ppp.log says: % ppp isp ... ... ... ... Automatic mode Working in auto mode. % ppp.log shows: listening at 3000 PPP started How does one get it to connect?? Nothing seems to make it callout. Sending mail, popclient, telnet, ftp... etc... etc... What am I missing here?? Yup, I can 'telnet localhost 3000' as stated in 'man ppp', Everything looks ok except for ppp vs PPP. (not connected) My goal: Auto mail transfer. A cron job to (check/get) (for/mail) every x minutes/hours. When there is mail to go out, Connect, send it, If theres new mail waiting, retreive it. Thanks all. -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848