Date: Sun, 24 Nov 1996 17:05:45 -0500 (EST) From: Dan McCaffrey <quest@shaft.unicus.ca> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Script Question Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.961124170030.2111A-100000@shaft.unicus.ca>
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Greetings All! I have a FreeBSD 2.1.5 Box connected by ISDN service to my ISP. Unfortunately my ISPs router is configured to clear connections that have been inactive for 10 minutes. Right now I have set cron to ping a host outside of my network every 5 minutes in order to keep the connection alive. As you could guess my root mailbox gets filled up pretty quick with the results from the ping. Is there a way that I could set up a script that is loaded at startup, runs in the background and pings a host every 5 minutes, without having to involve cron? Thank you in advance! Dan
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