Yep, I just stay on ICQ and IRC..this keeps the account activity open and my isp just lets me stay connected..at the writting of this mail I have been online for about 13 hours.. BTW..if you want to be on irc..then join #suse at irc.linux.com ... we could always use more people to make life interesting :) laters,
On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, clarge@gizmo.macn.bc.ca writes:
Where do i get rid of this idled timer for ppp? it keeps taking down the connection every so many minutes for lack of actvity. This is on 6.3.
I might be wrong, but it seems to me that it's your ISP that's closing down the connection... mine runs for hours/days on SuSE 6.3, BUT if I don't have activity for a while (5min?) my ISP closes it down.
Solution: Set up a CRON job to ping your ISP every 5,10 or so minutes. Or, if you are using fetchmail, set it to fetch mail every 5 minutes or so (this is what I do).
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