by I am attempting to set up linux to dial up my ISP, download news
and mail and then disconnect. I am presently trying to get
leafnode to work to fetch the news. No joy so far; it keeps
dying on me leaving things like this in /var/log/messages:
Aug 18 10:52:12 rhino_house leafnode[420]: rereading
/usr/lib/leafnode/groupinfo
Aug 18 10:52:38 rhino_house leafnode[424]: rereading
/usr/lib/leafnode/groupinfo
Aug 18 10:52:38 rhino_house leafnode[424]: can't stat
/usr/lib/leafnode/groupinf
o: No such file or directory
Aug 18 10:52:38 rhino_house leafnode[424]: rereading
/usr/lib/leafnode/blocked
Aug 18 10:52:52 rhino_house leafnode[424]: quit
I am assuming I will overcome this eventually. In the meantime,
is there some program that can monitor the connection and kill it
after a specified length of idle time? My present OS/2 setup
runs nicely unattended but the dialer program provides this
"timeout" function. I hope there is something similar for
linux...