On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 01:20:46AM +0300, Aaron wrote: > neat I was just wondering what to do when my cable connection dies. > > I was hoping for a script that with do an ifconfig and if no ppp0 is > found automatically redial. > > Then I would make it run every x minutes (cron?) > Are the options essentially the same for cable as for adsl??
Yes. When writing the script you should consider the possibility of two such redials being run simulataniously (e.g: maybe you try running it manually, and then the one from cron starts running). I use a simple lock file to check for that. -- Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
