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Hi.   I use DIP and SLIP to access an Internet provider, and my script
      file which invokes DIP works fine if I invoke it from the command
      line.  I can run Xwindows and Netscape, ftp, etc...
      But if I try to invoke DIP via "at" or "cron", it fails to connect,
      and yet there are no error messages.  I invoke DIP with verbose
      mode, and check the log that cron emails me.  Everything seems fine.
      All the dialog with my internet provider is there, right up to the
      point where I tell my isp to start SLIP.  No problem, except that the
      line drops.  It seems as if the daemon for DIP is not being hived-off
      as a seperate process correctly when cron tries to do it.

      I am running older versions of things, but I suspect there is some
      simple tweak to fix this.  I have read the DIP HOW-To's, and tried
      sunsite.unc.edu to get latest docs, but was turfed off by their "go
      away" version of ftp.   Any suggestions??

      Versions:  DIP      3.3.7L-uri
                 SLIP     0.8.3
                 (Kernel) 1.2.1  

      Any help greatly appreciated.         - Mark Langdon, Toronto, Canada

I have experienced some problems with dip while
executing it with the -v option and the standar
output wasn't a true terminal. When you run it from
cron, what dip gets as standar output is a file, not
a terminal, so it fails. Try it without the -v option.

Regards and good luck.

Toni