Running PPP via crontab

[Odhiambo Washington]

Hello everyone,

I have setup a FreeBSD box which a friend of mine will run as a mail
server/firewall in his SOHO, using dialup (modem) to his ISP. Almost
everything is setup and running, even ppp can work when I manually
run through the dialup procedure.

I don't have much problem configuring what he will run on this box, but
one aspect has pinned me down. The ppp _MUST_ not run in "auto" or
"ondemand" modes. It must be initiated manually.

I would like to make a crontab entry that will run ppp after every one
hour. I don't have a problem with crontab, but how to invoke ppp via it
;)

I'd appreciate some hand-holding here. What shall I put as the command
that will be run by cron?



-Wash

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