Vic - It is the remote ip address, according to the script comments. Chuck. On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Victor Tsaran wrote: > Chuck, what is $5 in this case? Is it an internal variable? > Regards, > Vic > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Charles Hallenbeck" <chuckh at mhonline.net> > To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2000 5:38 PM > Subject: Re: keeping PPP alive > > > > Jacob - > > > > Here are the relevant lines from my Slackware ip-up script. They look > > pretty generic to me... > > > > # If you want to ping the other end to keep the connection open. > > # The output from ping will goto >/dev/null, you won't see it. > > # Ping -i 60 = send ping every 60 seconds to remote = $5. > > > > (ping -i 60 $5 &) >/dev/null 2>&1 > > > > Hope that helps. > > Chuck. > > > > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh > > You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it > > doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. > > -- Hepler, Systems Design 182 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > My web site is http://www.mhonline.net/~chuckh You can bring any calculator you like to the midterm, as long as it doesn't dim the lights when you turn it on. -- Hepler, Systems Design 182
