Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:43:36 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Running PPP via crontab Message-ID: <20050410104336.GB59286@ns2.wananchi.com>
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Hello everyone, I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when I manually run through the dialup procedure. I don't have much problem configuring what he will run on this box, but one aspect has pinned me down. The ppp _MUST_ not run in "auto" or "ondemand" modes. It must be initiated manually. I would like to make a crontab entry that will run ppp after every one hour. I don't have a problem with crontab, but how to invoke ppp via it ;) I'd appreciate some hand-holding here. What shall I put as the command that will be run by cron? -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ Do you realize how many holes there could be if people would just take the time to take the dirt out of them?
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