Modem Hangup (was Re: [TriLUG] Some Newbie Linux Questions)

[al johnson]

Well, actually, I don't want to hang up the modem because of inactivity. I 
want to go online and download files. And I want to be able to go to bed and 
be assured that say for example have the computer hang up just the modem 
after an hour or say after 2 hours, etc. The computer would continue to run, 
the only thing that would change would be the internet connection would be 
hung-up. And several Trilug guys gave me this one line program that you type 
in the Terminal (using the proper status, naturally) which you just put the 
number of minutes you wanted to keep the line open. It was something like 
this, "Kill the internet connection after 60 mins."  or "Hang up the modem 
after x mins."   As I recall, it was about this brief, but unfortunately I 
lost it when my Windows drive crashed. It was not complicated at all. It 
really doesn't harm the system at all any more than what happens when for 
some reason your connection suddenly gets terminated by your I.S.P., for some 
reason known only to God or them. :-)
---Happy New Year,  Al Johnson.
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On Wednesday 01 January 2003 11:32 pm, you wrote:
> Just a quick follow up...
>
> If you want the link to go dead after being _idle_ for 10 minutes, put a
> line reading "idle 600" in the /etc/ppp/options file.  (or whatever
> options file you've configured ppp to use).
>
> Assuimng you don't have anything running in the background that's using
> the connection, like fetchmail, this should work fine.
>
> CJK
>
> On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 22:06, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 16:53, al johnson wrote:
> > > And I also have another which I asked a long time ago when I first
> > > joined Trilug.
> > >
> > > I asked if there was a way to hang up my modem (i.e. my internet
> > > connection and telephone) without resetting the computer at any period
> > > of time that I might desire, e.g. 10 min. , 20 min., 1 hour, 2 hours, 2
> > > hours and 20 mins., etc. At that time long before I had a good working
> > > Linux machine I was given a one line Terminal command to accomplish
> > > just that. If anyone remembers what it was, I'd love to have it now!!.
> > > ----Thanks A lot everyone.
> >
> > Hi Al,
> >
> > I'm just getting back from vacation so sorry about the late response.
> > For this question, are you interested in hanging up the modem after 10
> > minutes/etc of inactivity, or just after 10 minutes period?  I don't
> > know of a simple way for hanging after "inactivity" (since sometimes
> > your computer does things in the background even when you aren't).
>
> <Snip a useful script for hanging up after 10 minutes period ...>