[plug] Linux support for schools

[Shackleton, Kevin]

Thanks Mike and Matt.

Looks like both a cron to check the link is up and something in rc.local
would do the job.  The script should not dial on the weekend of course.

There's a loss of elegance in having the should-be-connected times in two
locations (the everyday cron and the recovery technique).  I suppose I could
make a single script containing the should-be-connected times and call that
from rc.local and a frequently-called cron.  Have to borrow my bash book
back . .

BTW, what, in Oz, is considered a 'reasonable holdoff'?  A minute?  Or more?
I vaguely recall something in a modem manual suggesting it was naughty to
slam calls through end-to-end.

K.

K.

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> From: 	Mike Holland[SMTP:myk at golden.wattle.id.au]
> 
> /etc/rc.d/rc.local is the place to add start-up code. e.g. something like
> 
>   hour=`date +%H`
>   if [ ($hour -lt 18) -a ($hour -ge 6) ] then ppp-on; 
> 
>