keeping PPP alive

[Victor Tsaran]

Chuck, what is $5 in this case? Is it an internal variable?
Regards,
Vic

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at mhonline.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive


> Jacob -
> 
> Here are the relevant lines from my Slackware ip-up script. They look
> pretty generic to me...
> 
> # If you want to ping the other end to keep the connection open.
> # The output from ping will goto >/dev/null, you won't see it.
> # Ping -i 60 = send ping every 60 seconds to remote = $5.
> 
> (ping -i 60 $5 &) >/dev/null 2>&1
> 
> Hope that helps.
> Chuck.
> 
> My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
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> doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on.
> -- Hepler, Systems Design 182
> 
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