[PLUG] Kill My Modem Connection 'Politely'

Russell Evans revans at e-z.net
Thu May 9 14:46:19 UTC 2002


You didn't mention how you are setting up your connection or what email client
you are using. If you are using a graphical connection client you need to look
at how it is calling up the connection. If it is calling up a script, then
there is probably a script it calls to disconnect. Calling the disconnect
script after some time period via cron would be a not so good way to do it. If
you are using a non-graphical setup then it should be easy to find the
corresponding down script.

Having your email client controlling the connection would be the better way to
do this. You are after all interested in getting all your email, not what can
get there in 10 minutes. Your email client may have on demand checking where it
can start the connection and stop the connection based on it's own needs. This
implies the email client and you dialer have some interconnection.

Using on demand dialing would be the most eloquent way to solve the problem. On
demand, either via pppd, wdiald, or diald would setup or connection when there
are packets to be sent and would time out after a set time limit of inactivity.
this too would insure you get all you mail.


Thank you
Russell





On Thu, 9 May 2002 06:06:31 -0700, guy1656 said:

> OK, this ought to be a simple chron-type question:
>  
>  I am about to leave my office to head off to a customer site job (like 10 
>  min. from now.) I decide to check e-mail one more time before I leave.
>  KDE says somebody has sent me about 5956 kB of data, probably 1 or 2 e-mail 
>  messages with MONGO MS-Office attachments.*
>  
>  OK, so I live out in rural Columbia County, and connect at 28.8 on a GREAT 
>  day, 26.4 most o' the time, and sometimes about half that. This usually means 
>  6 to 8 minutes of download time per MB.
>  
>  Rather than leave now and have the modem idly connected for hours, is there a 
>  chron thingie I can type in that says "(Nicely) disconnect me from my ISP 55 
>  mintues from now?"
>  
>  I am running Mandrake 8.2
>  
>  GLL
>  
>  * We can rag later about PHB's who create 1MB files in Powerpoint that are 
>  stuffed with tropical graphics, whose content is equivalent to the text 
>  string 'There will be a team meeting in the conference room at 10AM.'
>  
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