From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 26 8:43:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from elmer.designstein.com (elmer.designstein.com [206.150.198.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53EF114E33 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 08:43:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rlinwood@designstein.com) Received: from designstein.com (dhcp26.designstein.com [206.150.198.127]) by elmer.designstein.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA04855 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:43:11 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rlinwood@designstein.com) Message-ID: <3815CC55.49A5DE3A@designstein.com> Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 10:44:21 -0500 From: Ryan Linwood X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Modem problem Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently inherited a server running free-bsd 3.1 that runs a small dial in pool of modems. The modems are US Robotics 33.6 and are attached to a cyclades unit. The problem is that the modems constantly drop out of autoanswer. I want to create a crontab to call a shell script that will just send an AT command to the modems every 10 minutes to reset them. My problem is that I am not quite sure how to send a direct command to a modem in a shell script. I have researched this pretty carefully in the FreeBSD book and some other Unix texts that I have and I can't seem to find anything more than general ppp documentation so I hope I am not missing anything obvious here. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Ryan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message