Topic: max number of attempts for dialup

[julian]

Hi All,
I'm fairly new to e-smith and linux, but keen to know more. I have an e-smith (5.6) that I want to put at a remote office so that it can dial-in an provide as a gateway to the main office.
With the current system we had a problem whereby the  dialup kept  dialling up on a public holiday and the main office was off. $1500 in one day!!!
Is there a way that I can limit the e-smith to x number of attempts (say 5)?

What script/template do I modify?
TIA
Cheers
Julian

[Lloyd Keen]

I have a script for that, I will e-mail it off list.

[Tony Eviston]

Not exactly what you asked, Julian, but another way of minimizing the financial damage is to increase the interval between dial up attempts in the template fragment

/etc/e-smith/templates-custom/etc/diald.conf/redial-timeout

Tony