Activating internet from remote??

[hotpotato]

Hi,

What i'm trying to do is make my computer so I can dial it up from a normal telephone line, enter PIN code e.t.c. then choose an option which will execute a script that will dial my internet connection.

I have set everything up fine using vgetty and I can get it to execute scripts using the phone... The only problem is:

The phoneline I dial in on, is the phoneline the internet needs to dialout on.

So is there anything that I could put in the script (or program/command) that would holdoff the script for say 30secs, so I can hangup the phone before pppd tries to dialout??????

Any feedback would be much appriciated.

Thanks,
HotPotato

[Sven Vermeulen]

Ofcourse. One very easy way is to run it in a screen-session.

So you login, start a screen-session, issue a delay and have the script run after the delay:

[hotpotato]

Cheers,

Using nohup method it works flawlessly.

Thanks,
HotPotato.