[plug] setting up redail rules

[Kim Covil]

> 
> david.buddrige at mitswa.com.au wrote:
> > 
> > ok, as I understand it there is a utility related to cron which allows u to
> > perform a given command (once off) at a specified time in the future (can't
> > remember command name).  whatabout a cron job that regularly checks the ppp
> > connection  and, if it is down, initiates this job using above mentioned
> > utility at sys-time + 10 minutes?
> 
> A better approach would be to start pppd in the background in a script
> that loops and after executing pppd (with -detach) it sleeps for x
> seconds before looping.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Christian.
> 

But as I said the first time pppd can handle this timing itself... that
is what the holdoff option is for... :)

Kim


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