John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 15 June 2003 15:23, Jasmine Davis wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 01:28 pm, Richard wrote:
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:11, Jasmine Davis wrote:
It is not just staying online until kicked off. I want it to reconnect, even without network activity, so the system stays connected 24/7.
Jasmine
That's a whole nuther thing, then. What usually happens is your ISP will automatically kick you off after a period of inactivity. Sometimes checking your email every 10 minutes or so will be all that is required to keep you online. However, some ISP's won't let that kind of activity count. Some even do a disconnect for you every four hours or so regardless of what you are doing.
You are correct about some ISPs not always counting email as a time. However, I think maybe using "netdate" to go get the time set by a script and cron might solve the problem. Besides setting the time correctly. In CST6DST/Houston, TX # # netdate - set date and time by ARPA Internet RFC 868 # netdate [ -v ] [ -l limit ] [ protocol ] hostname.. netdate tick.uh.edu navobs1.wustl.edu now.cis.okstate.edu The following will set hardware clock using linux time: hwclock --systohc Netdate is on SuSE's CDs -- 73 de Donn Washburn __ " http://www.hal-pc.org/~n5xwb " Ham Callsign N5XWB / / __ __ __ __ __ __ __ 307 Savoy St. / /__ / / / \/ / / /_/ / \ \/ / Sugar Land, TX 77478 /_____/ /_/ /_/\__/ /_____/ /_/\_\ LL# 1.281.242.3256 a MSDOS Virus "Free Zone" OS Email: n5xwb@hal-pc.org Info: http://www.knoppix.net