From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 12:05:14 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6564016A4CF for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:05:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (ns2.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5765D43D1F for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:05:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wash@wananchi.com) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 4.44 #0 (FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE)) id 1DKbBd-000OFQ-Th by authid for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:05:10 +0300 Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:05:09 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050410120509.GC59286@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050410104336.GB59286@ns2.wananchi.com> <425911A0.90305@mail.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <425911A0.90305@mail.ru> X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.9i (2005-03-13) X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Subject: Re: Running PPP via crontab X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 12:05:14 -0000 * Andrew P. [20050410 14:44]: wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >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? > > > 1 */1 * * * root /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat mtu > > Something like this where "root" is the user > to run ppp as (remove it in case you're not > a superuser and not editing /etc/crontab), > "-ddial" is the mode - change it to whatever > you need, "-nat" enables nat (you can also do > it from ppp.conf), and "mtu" is the section > of ppp.conf to load. Hello Andrew, et al, I figured out I could use "ppp -background sucks" (where sucks is the ISP label in ppp.conf). This seems to be what I am looking for, no?? I can run it on the command line. I hope it will do same thing via cron. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.