> From: adam beecher [mailto:adam at iewebs.com]
> That's a bit of a bugger innit? I was hoping to set it up to
> dial in every day
> just after 6pm, and disconnect just before 8am, with periodic
> pings to keep the
> connection alive and - might as well kill two birds with one
> stone - check
> services on my remote machines. 'Cept for weekends of course,
> when I'd leave it
> on the whole time. And, as you suggested, I wanted to collect my email
> periodically during the day and drop the connection
> immediately.
Well, there's nothing to stop the cron job that checks the mail dropping the
line itself at on-peak times. You could write two scripts; one for on-peak
and one for -off-peak. Or do it right and write one script that knows
whether to drop the line depsnding on the time.
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