I highly recommend diald. It is highly configurable and resilient. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, > Tomorow I am leaving the country for about a month and I would like to > ensure that my machine stays up and online the whole time so I can telnet in > and access certain files. - So does anyone have any tips on things I should > do / measures to put in place to minimize the chance of my machine going down > / > offline while I'm not here? > I am running a hamm install with various slink packages. It is > on a modem ppp link with "persist" set in /etc/ppp/options. It has "(mlddc < > /etc/ppp/mymldata 2>&1) >> /var/log/mlddc" in ip-up, so it updates its > monolith > domain any time it goes online. Also I have set the file /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot. > ...... The idea being that if the fone disconnects it will redial and > reregister > the new ip, and if power goes, when it comes back up it will dial when it > boots > up and reregister the new ip. The machine runs ftpd,telnetd,ssh and httpd. > > One thing that happens occasionally is that my ISP has problems and > their gateway will stop working and packets don't get out, but it doensn't > actually disconnect. So I was thinking I should put something in my cron.daily > to restart the ppp connection - What should I use to restart pppd or kill it > and start a new one? > > Thanks in advance, > Timothy Hospedales > > ---------------------------------- > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: 19-Jul-98 > Time: 12:41:39 > > This message was sent by XFMail. > Powered by GNU/Linux 2.0. > ---------------------------------- > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
