[plug] Linux support for schools

[Matt Kemner]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Shackleton, Kevin wrote:

> 1) it cron's the dial in and hangup without anyone being logged in.  The
> cron documentation refers to all cron jobs as belonging to someone.  Will
> root's cron jobs be run without being logged in?  (I'd try this but my
> machine's in bits at the moment).

Yes. Any cron jobs will run without the owner being logged in.
 
> 2) it copes with power failures.  We often have power failures longer than
> small UPS' will cope with.  Assuming the machine fsck's ok, it would be nice
> to see it work out if it should reconnect or not.

I'm not sure I follow you here.
You mean it should work out if it should reconnect in terms of what time
of day it is?

The easiest way to solve that, is to have a cron script run at regular
intervals, between the hours that the link should be up, to check that the
link is in fact up, and to re-dial if it is not.

 - Matt