On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, Ben Rosenberg wrote: br> Yep, I just stay on ICQ and IRC..this keeps the account activity open br> and my isp just lets me stay connected..at the writting of this mail I br> have been online for about 13 hours.. br> br> BTW..if you want to be on irc..then join #suse at irc.linux.com ... we br> could always use more people to make life interesting :) br> I wrote a tcl script that starts and stops a ping session to a given host from a config file or command line at a default or command line given interval. Its come along way from simply doing 'ping -i 60 some.host.com' works pretty darn good if I say so myself and hasn't given me any problems in all my tiems of using it. Could probably come up with something in perl or c/c++ depending on a persons needs. br> br> laters, br> br> > On Sun, 16 Jan 2000, clarge@gizmo.macn.bc.ca writes: br> > > Where do i get rid of this idled timer for ppp? it keeps taking down the br> > > connection every so many minutes for lack of actvity. This is on 6.3. br> > br> > I might be wrong, but it seems to me that it's your ISP that's closing down the br> > connection... mine runs for hours/days on SuSE 6.3, BUT if I don't have br> > activity for a while (5min?) my ISP closes it down. br> > br> > Solution: Set up a CRON job to ping your ISP every 5,10 or so minutes. Or, if br> > you are using fetchmail, set it to fetch mail every 5 minutes or so (this is br> > what I do). br> br> -- S.Toms - tomas@primenet.com - homepage is in the works SuSE Linux v6.2+ - Kernel 2.2.13 43rd Law of Computing: Anything that can go wr fortune: Segmentation violation -- Core dumped -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/