Re: tlug: telehodai

[simon@example.com (Simon Cozens)]

Tony Laszlo (lists.tlug):
>Have you any ideas of how I could set up a 
>failsafe system which would shut down the 
>ppp connection at 7:59 am? 

First, you might want to consider using diald, which can do things like
restrict a connection by time, bring it back up if it dies, or only
connect when needed.

>Something in the cron files, maybe? 

Spot on. "killall pppd" will do it. "man 5 crontab" for the rest. :)

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