Topic: Diald Redo

[Luke Drumm]

Hi,

I realise this should probably go into the developers discussion section but:
a) I'm currently at work and thus a little e-mail thwarted. (except for Hotmail etc. but who seriously wants to try and swap coding ideas like that?)

b) Its hopefully short and sweet enough for people to convince themselves that's it not a hardcore programing question. Just remember to keep repeating the mantra "It's not a programing question. It's not a..."

Okay, enough babble:

I've had a look and attempted to prod the default diald templates into something I want (as per previous posting) but it's not really working out the way I wanted. My next thought is to rewrite some of the diald handling code.

I as far as I see it I can approach this two ways:
a) I carefully construct some new 'non-name-conflicting' diald profiles and modify all the code from one end to the other to handle the new profiles.

or

b) I say 'Stuff it' and simply rewrite the dilad filter template to ignore all passed parameters and proceed along its own stubborn path.

Given the choice, I'd prefer to do option 'A' as it pleases my 'inner programer' ("Be the code.. be the code..." ) but in order to do this I need to know the names of the various files that deal with diald and its profile and/or filters.

Or...

I could just do option 'B'.

Despite the fact that this post is starting to sound like a hostage situation for the code 'cleanliness' of my system, (Can anybody else see Dirty Harry at this point saying some throwaway like "Don't look at me. I'm not your Admin."?)  I'm mildy okay with doing either option at this point so long as it's not going to come back and haunt me in other places around the system.

In short (and to vaugely surmise):
Can anybody supply the lurid details of option A... or some vauge assurance that diald profiles are used for, and only for, the diald process... or some warm milk to counteract this obvious abundance of caffine in my system.

Regards,
Luke

[Charlie Brady]

Luke Drumm wrote:

> Okay, enough babble:
>
> I've had a look and attempted to prod the default diald
> templates into something I want (as per previous posting) but
> it's not really working out the way I wanted. My next thought
> is to rewrite some of the diald handling code.

I don't understand what it is that you want to achieve. Perhaps you should contact me offline and explain.

Charlie

[Luke Drumm]

At the end of the day I would like my diald.conf to have the following time settings applicable (and pref no others):

restrict 06:00:00 23:00:00 * * *
up
restrict * * * * *
down

I've tried to fudge the existing settings but with little success.

Regards,
Luke

PS: Given a perfect world I'd prefer just having two 'options' for diald settings:
'Restricted Days' - which gives the conf listed above
and
'Limited Days' - which defines the conf as

restrict 23:00:00 06:00:00 * * *
down
restrict * * * * *