Subject: Re: idle timeouts from isp
To: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/03/2001 21:59:45
On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 02:42:19PM -0500, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 09:41:12PM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > ping also has option -i for interval in seconds.  No need for cron..
> 
> There is if we're talking about a headless firewall machine that Jon
> doesn't want to stay logged into all the time.

You can run ping from /etc/rc.local or some such and never need to log on.

  -jm