keeping PPP alive

[Charles Hallenbeck]

Vic -
It is the remote ip address, according to the script comments. 
Chuck.

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote:

> 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 
> > You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it
> > doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on.
> > -- Hepler, Systems Design 182
> > 
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My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh 
You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it
doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on.
		-- Hepler, Systems Design 182