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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!ott.istar!istar.net!van.istar!west.istar!uniserve!van-bc!news.rmii.com!usenet From: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com (Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: inactivity timeout for pppd Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:54:52 GMT Organization: Vault Information Services Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4s310c$139@natasha.rmii.com> Reply-To: tjacobs@vaultbbs.com NNTP-Posting-Host: indolin.vaultbbs.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 We've recently started to switch our users to PPP from SLIP. We had modified sliplogin to add an inactivity disconnect based on an amount in the slip.hosts file. To do this, we just captured the idle time displayed in finger. The problem is that this method will not work with pppd. Is there another way to have some type of idle timeout while using pppd? Thomas R. Jacobs, Jr. | tjacobs@vaultbbs.com VIS SysAdmin2 - Webmaster | http://www.vaultbbs.com/~tjacobs | PGP Key available via finger. Sleep \'slep\ n 1 : A completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.