Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:05:09 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running PPP via crontab Message-ID: <20050410120509.GC59286@ns2.wananchi.com> In-Reply-To: <425911A0.90305@mail.ru> References: <20050410104336.GB59286@ns2.wananchi.com> <425911A0.90305@mail.ru>
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* Andrew P. <infofarmer@mail.ru> [20050410 14:44]: wrote: > Odhiambo Washington wrote: > >Hello everyone, > > > >I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail > >server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost > >everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when I manually > >run through the dialup procedure. > > > >I don't have much problem configuring what he will run on this box, but > >one aspect has pinned me down. The ppp _MUST_ not run in "auto" or > >"ondemand" modes. It must be initiated manually. > > > >I would like to make a crontab entry that will run ppp after every one > >hour. I don't have a problem with crontab, but how to invoke ppp via it > >;) > > > >I'd appreciate some hand-holding here. What shall I put as the command > >that will be run by cron? > > > 1 */1 * * * root /usr/sbin/ppp -quiet -ddial -nat mtu > > Something like this where "root" is the user > to run ppp as (remove it in case you're not > a superuser and not editing /etc/crontab), > "-ddial" is the mode - change it to whatever > you need, "-nat" enables nat (you can also do > it from ppp.conf), and "mtu" is the section > of ppp.conf to load. Hello Andrew, et al, I figured out I could use "ppp -background sucks" (where sucks is the ISP label in ppp.conf). This seems to be what I am looking for, no?? I can run it on the command line. I hope it will do same thing via cron. -Wash http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html -- +======================================================================+ |\ _,,,---,,_ | Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Zzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ | Wananchi Online Ltd. www.wananchi.com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-'| Tel: +254 20 313985-9 +254 20 313922 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) | GSM: +254 722 743223 +254 733 744121 +======================================================================+ One way to make your old car run better is to look up the price of a new model.
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