question about lynx.

question about lynx.

[dana]

When i am on line and using lynx, I get dropped after about 10 minutes or
so.
This happens when i am trying to fill out a form, how can i make this
crazy thing stay on line?

RE: question about lynx.

[Dave Hunt]

Sounds like your ISP's timing out your connection after an idle period of
about 10 minutes.  While you are filling your form, there's no activity on
the dial-up connection.  Do something to keep it alive, for instance, have
your pop client poll for mail every thee minutes or so.  Remember that,
while you are filling a form, answering an email letter, or the like, no
data are sent over the connection until you 'submit'.


--  Dave  --


-----Original Message-----
From: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca
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Sent: Sunday, April 30, 2000 5:05 PM
To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca
Subject: question about lynx.


When i am on line and using lynx, I get dropped after about 10 minutes or
so.
This happens when i am trying to fill out a form, how can i make this
crazy thing stay on line?


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Re: question about lynx.

[Buddy Brannan]

Hmm. ... You're probably getting dropped by your ISP's idle timer. Try
running fetchmail as a daemon with
set daemon 300

This will make fetchmail check your mail every 5 minutes once you start
fetchmail running. To stop fetchmail, type
fetchmail -q

Make sure you have execute permission set on your .fetchmailrc


-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV        | And if the ground yawned,
Email: davros@ycardz.com     | I'd step to the side and say,
Phone: (972) 889-8147        | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!"
Voice mail: (877) 791-5298   | --Eddie From Ohio

Re: question about lynx.

[William F. Acker WB2FLW +1-303-777-8123]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Buddy Brannan wrote:

> Make sure you have execute permission set on your .fetchmailrc

     Whatever for?  .fetchmailrc is a configuration file, not a
program.  The only permission requirement is that .fetchmailrc may not be
readable by anyone other than the owner.




          73.
          Bill

Re: question about lynx.

[Buddy Brannan]

Hell if I know, but when I didn't, fetchmail bitched at me for not having
permissions set to execute. <Shakes head in bewilderment>


-- 
Buddy Brannan, KB5ELV        | And if the ground yawned,
Email: davros@ycardz.com     | I'd step to the side and say,
Phone: (972) 889-8147        | "Hey ground! I'm nobody's lunch!"
Voice mail: (877) 791-5298   | --Eddie From Ohio