[mythtv-users] Re: no one on here uses dial up then?

[Derek Conniffe]

I don’t dial-up (although I'm remote enough and don’t have broadband but I
have, after years, managed to get myself a fixed 64kb connection) - but I
can't see how dialup would be a problem because its only one program -
mythfilldatabase - which starts, pulls down the data (which takes quite a
while I find for the UK/Ireland listings) and then is done so I'd imagine it
would be an easy job to make a small script with ppp dialup,
mythfilldatabase and ppp disconnect and then put this script into
/etc/crontab.  But I don’t have experience with this and wont have either.
It would be a problem if mythfilldatabase hung or anything as it might hold
your phone line open but then again I'd guess that you could configure a
no-activity timeout on the ppp dialup.

Derek

PS I do use dialup in a very remote location but there I run ppp dial
manually (with SuSE 9.1 and ISDN chan_capi) and then I kill the connection
manually too.  I don’t use mythtv there at all but the ppp connect/kill
works so well that I'd say it would do the job just fine with a script -
again I don’t do this with mythtv so what I'm saying is my untested opinion
only.  

-----Original Message-----
From: mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org
[mailto:mythtv-users-bounces at mythtv.org] On Behalf Of Louie Ilievski
Sent: 28 January 2005 18:31
To: Discussion about mythtv
Subject: Re: [mythtv-users] Re: no one on here uses dial up then?

A tear rolls down my face as I pity the dial-up users  :-)

~Lou

* Cable for many years, and NEVER going back!

On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 09:29 -0700, Alexander Petkov wrote:
> Hmm I still do <blush>.
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