Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 15:44:32 +0400 From: "Andrew P." <infofarmer@mail.ru> To: Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Running PPP via crontab Message-ID: <425911A0.90305@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <20050410104336.GB59286@ns2.wananchi.com> References: <20050410104336.GB59286@ns2.wananchi.com>
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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. Best wishes, Andrew P.
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