From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 16 15:21:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA10789 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:21:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu (heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu [152.1.68.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA10780 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 15:21:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu (8.7.3/EC06jan95) id SAA34296; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:20:29 -0400 Message-Id: <199610162220.SAA34296@heli-fishing.eos.ncsu.edu> Subject: Re: pppd timeout? To: val@omnisolve.com (Valtaire) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 18:20:28 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199610161428.OAA14147@omnisolve.com> from "Valtaire" at Oct 16, 1996 02:28:11 PM From: camattin@ncsu.edu (Chris Mattingly) Reply-To: camattin@ncsu.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL0a11] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Valtaire wrote the following about "pppd timeout?" on Wed Oct 16 10:28:11 1996 > > is there a way to set pppd to timeout and hang up if a user goes idle > for a certain amount of time, say 15 minutes? I used to use ijppp > but i have switched over to pppd and don't know ot do it. Doesn't say > in the man page. > > - Joel add 'idle ' to the pppd command line arguments. -Chris -- Chris Mattingly | My views are not necessarily those of my employers camattin@ncsu.edu | NCSU/ITECS [ECO] | "Good programmers write good code; great Systems Programmer | programmers 'borrow' good code." -- Mike Gancarz