From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from orion.sas.upenn.edu(ORION.SAS.UPENN.EDU[165.123.26.31]) (1880 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:52:44 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from wang (DIALIN0440.UPENN.EDU [128.91.17.184]) by orion.sas.upenn.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1/SAS.05) with SMTP id e660qls12927 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:52:47 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <006501bfe6fd$aa154be0$d2105b80@wang> From: "Victor Tsaran" To: References: Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 20:52:49 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4029.2901 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4029.2901 List-Id: Chuck, what is $5 in this case? Is it an internal variable? Regards, Vic ----- Original Message ----- From: "Charles Hallenbeck" To: Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:38 PM Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive > Jacob - > > Here are the relevant lines from my Slackware ip-up script. They look > pretty generic to me... > > # If you want to ping the other end to keep the connection open. > # The output from ping will goto >/dev/null, you won't see it. > # Ping -i 60 = send ping every 60 seconds to remote = $5. > > (ping -i 60 $5 &) >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Hope that helps. > Chuck. > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it > doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. > -- Hepler, Systems Design 182 > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup