From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Nov 24 15:28:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA19379 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:28:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from shaft.unicus.ca ([207.167.211.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA19369 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 15:28:54 -0800 (PST) Received: (from quest@localhost) by shaft.unicus.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA02124; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:05:45 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:05:45 -0500 (EST) From: Dan McCaffrey To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Script Question Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings All! I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Box connected by ISDN service to my ISP. Unfortunately my ISPs router is configured to clear connections that have been inactive for 10 minutes. Right now I have set cron to ping a host outside of my network every 5 minutes in order to keep the connection alive. As you could guess my root mailbox gets filled up pretty quick with the results from the ping. Is there a way that I could set up a script that is loaded at startup, runs in the background and pings a host every 5 minutes, without having to involve cron? Thank you in advance! Dan