Re: Checking length of time?

From: Alexis Huxley (ahuxley_at_gmx.net)
Date: 10/18/04

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Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:39:13 +0000 (UTC)

    > 1. How do I check the status of the connection... ie the length of time
    > that my debian box has been connected?

    You can find the last connection time by grepping for "remote IP address"
    in /var/log/messages. Then you can use 'date -d <datestring> +%s' to
    convert this to seconds since 1970, you can also get the time now
    expressed as seconds since 1970 with 'date +%s' then subtract one from
    the other and you've got the number of seconds you've been connected.
    The rest is straightforward.

    > 2. How can I set my box up to automatically disconnect after say about
    > 7.5 hours, and then reconnect?

    Set up a script in /etc/ip-up.d that runs something like:

            #!/bin/sh
            ( sleep 27000; killall ppd ) &

    (Not tested.)

    Hope that helps ..

    Alexis 

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