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From: Mike Pritchard <mpp@legarto.minn.net>
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Subject: Re: PPP redial
To: vrozma01@barney.poly.edu (VyacheslavS. Rozman)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 1995 09:03:12 -0500 (CDT)
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>  I am using PPP account, and sometimes it is very difficult to connect to 
>  the server because the line is busy.  I have to redial many times.  I would 
>  greately appreciate it if someone could help me to establish an 
>  automatic redial feature.
>  Thank you for your time.
>  Slava.  

Here are the guts of my PPP connection script that I run whenever I want 
to startup my PPP link.  If the connection fails (line busy, modems
wouldn't talk, whatever) it will sleep for a while and retry everything.
scripts.

---cut here---
#!/bin/sh
#
# startppp [-v]
#
# -v = Call chat with "-v" to produce verbose output to help debug
#      connection problems.

DEBUG=
set -- `getopt tv $*`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
	echo "usage: startppp [-v]"
	exit 1
fi
for i
do
	case "$i"
	in
		-v)
			DEBUG=-v
			shift;;
		--)
			shift
			break;;
	esac
done
(
while true
do
	pppd -detach connect "chat $DEBUG -f /etc/ppp/ppp-chat" /dev/modem 115200
	if [ $? -eq 0 ]
	then
		break;
	fi
	sleep 60
	logger -p local0.info -t PPP Retrying PPP connection
done
) < /dev/null > /dev/null 2>&1 &
-- 
Mike Pritchard
mpp@legarto.minn.net
"Go that way.  Really fast.  If something gets in your way, turn"