Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 17:43:26 -0700 (PDT) From: "Michael V. Harding" <mvh@netcom.com> To: croyle@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 release, can it be postponed? Message-ID: <199709100043.RAA00955@netcom1.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: <86d8mie5y0.fsf@gelemna.ft-wayne.in.us> (message from Don Croyle on 09 Sep 1997 12:46:15 -0500)
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Actually, on a related note, it would be nice if ppp had a 'lock' file you could check to see if the connection was up. I use /var/spool/lock/LCK..cuaa1 for this purpose, but it would be nice if PPP had a way of telling cron jobs directly. I check for mail every 6 minutes if the connection is up, and every 2 hours if it's not. With dial-on-demand, of course. Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> writes: > User PPP works right... just "differently" than before. A specific > reference to the different behaviour should be noted on the CD of course, > but I think userland PPP is quite stable and working better than ever. Yes it works, but there are a few features it would be nice to have before it's unleashed on the world. Like a way to explicitly bring up the link when running in auto mode. It often takes me two or three tries to connect to my ISP, by which time a program that's attempting to open a socket has usually timed out. In the past, I've handled this by using invoking ppp interactively when I'm present and using ppp -background for cron jobs. Now I'm forced to use ppp -auto and my cron jobs keep timing out. :-( -- I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready to make the commitment.
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