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Re: PSID



On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Gaal Yahas wrote:

> Ira Abramov wrote:
> 
> > 
> > you are assuming only one pppd runs on the system... how about a few
> > cyclades cards? one pentium 133 with enough memory can serve ppp to 128
> > lines...
> 
> okay, so put a sort by date and tail the last entry before that awk.

cool hack, but far from perfect, there is always a chance two people
called at the same time and the machanism would go wrong. especially on
busy systems with high loads, where processes might get lower priority for
a sec or two and miss the result by then. a wrapper process is the right
thing to do. an interesting solution for it might come from daemon-tools:
ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/daemontools.html although this package is a
lot more than a wrapper for pppd :-)

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