Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 10:41:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Lukas Ertl <l.ertl@univie.ac.at> To: Dominic Marks <dominic_marks@btinternet.com> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to automagically restart net/pptpclient? Message-ID: <20020528103703.J15488-100000@pcle2.cc.univie.ac.at> In-Reply-To: <20020528093236.A7916@host217-39-111-112.in-addr.btop>
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On Tue, 28 May 2002, Dominic Marks wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 12:57:52AM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > I have installed net/pptpclient (1.0.3). About 5 times a week, it dies > > and must be restarted. Does anyone have a script which checks and > > restarts it if it has died? > > You might like to try one of the other PPTP clients on offer. I > switched from using pptpclient to mpd and think it is superior. This > is all covered in the Handbook :) I have to support that. I used pptpclient a long time for my ADSL connection but switched to mpd(-netgraph), which seems to me more stable and smoother and more "BSD-like". For checking and restarting I used a little shell script which just pings some host and takes the appropriate measures when it can't reach the host. It runs from cron every five minutes or so. regards, le --=20 Lukas Ertl eMail: l.ertl@univie.ac.at UNIX-Systemadministrator Tel.: (+43 1) 4277-14073 Zentraler Informatikdienst (ZID) Fax.: (+43 1) 4277-9140 der Universit=E4t Wien http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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