On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, David Maxwell wrote:

> A long time ago on one of the lists, someone explained their ppp setup,
> which was configured to dial the modem when it was turned on, then kill
> ppp when the modem was turned off. 

Well, the killing of the pppd is no problem.  When the modem is turned off
pppd should just die on its own.  (It does this for me at work).  I have
no clue about starting it, though - unless you wanted to run pppd from
cron every few minutes or so (or something like that). 
 
> I've searched the archives, but can't find that message among all the
> other ppp discussions. Is the author listening? :-) (Or someone who
> remembers?)
> 
> -- David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net --> Mastery of UNIX,
> like mastery of language, offers real freedom. The price of freedom is
> always dear, but there's no substitute. Personally, I'd rather pay for
> my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. -
> Thomas Scoville

--fission