[plug] Ok, the next question...

[John Breen]

>
>I found a ping to a known host in the ISP's network a good option.  
>Then you
>create a desktop icon for the windows users that just ping the IP of 
>that
>host.  no DNS etc etc a few seconds later the link comes up and all 
>is happy
>:)

Hmmm... that could be OK if I'm sitting at the winblows box, but I
want to led RH get my mail at midnight and put it in my local mailbox.
Still, I suppose a ping would be OK.

I had actually thought of setting up a script that calls pppd to
start the link, looks for a process ID for pppd, and the lack of one
for chat and then calls fetchmail and sendmail -q.

>
>Having said that I've not had a nice time with diald :(

At the risk of sounding stupid (but hey, I should be used to that by
now...), IS there something else that does the same job?

>
>Yours Tony.
>
>/*
> * "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the 
> * same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
> * --Albert Einstein
> */
>
>
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