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 :)
I'm not a IRC or ICQ person. So that won't help me. Never been able to set it up and just don't have the time to play with it.
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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