Possibly stupid question

[Robin Melville]

At 10:58 am +0100 5/8/00, Mark Ovens wrote:
>On Sat, Aug 05, 2000 at 08:54:18AM +0100, Robin Melville wrote:
>>  At 7:01 pm +0100 4/8/00, Mark Ovens wrote:
>>  >On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 05:51:05PM +0100, Robin Melville wrote:
>>  >... having moved to ntlworld I now find that
>>  >  > dial-on-demand ppp insists on redialling automatically whenever a
>>  >  > timeout occurs.
>>  >
>>  >  >   set reconnect 3 5
>>  >
>>  >Er, it's doing so because you are telling it to
>>  >
>>
>>  Dah... that *is* dumb of me. NTL world has a 5 min timeout, my
>>  previous provider was 7 mins, that's why it started happening after
>>  the switch.
>>
>
>I use NTL too. Do I take it that you run something every 6.5 mins or
>so to prevent it timing out? I have fetchmail(1) check for new mail
>every 2 minutes.

Yes. I also use fetchmail.