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- From: chris@castlab.uucp (Christian)
- Subject: To kill a modem...
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Date: 27 Dec 92 01:03:53 CST
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- Question for all you wise people-
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- Is there an easy way to hang up on a modem if there is more than x minutes of
- idle time? I don't want to write a c program... it seems you could just have
- cron do its thing every 15 minutes or so, and reset ttya if its idle > hour.
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- Any hints?
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- -Chris
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