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Re: [Plug] Crashed logins
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why did they have to name it potato...yuk...
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In the Depths of the minds of the insane Fantasy and Reality are the
same...
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999, Morgan Wajda-Levie wrote:
:Date: Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:58:32 -0500
:From: Morgan Wajda-Levie <mpwl@locke.ccil.org>
:Reply-To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:To: plug@lists.nothinbut.net
:Subject: [Plug] Crashed logins
:
:I use my computer as an ipmasq gateway for my parents' computer, an
:old Macintosh. The easiest way I've found for them to start and stop
:an Internet connection is by creating a telnet account that simply
:creates a lock on the connection, and deletes it when they log out.
:As long as somebody has a lock on the connection, nobody can kill the
:connection.
:
:The problem with this system is that the Mac is almost as bad as a
:Windows box; it crashes a lot. I have a program that's run by cron on
:the half hour to remove the locks on any users that are not logged
:in.
:
:In theory this should handle the problem, but it doesn't. Today,
:though the Mac had crashed and been restarted, a telnet connection
:remained open for an hour and a half. How do I get my computer to
:realize that there is no computer on the other line and kill the
:connection?
:
:As always, my computer is running the latest Debian potato as of 5:00
:this morning.
:
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