[Sheflug] offline viewing

[ross <nospam [at] ntlworld.com>]

hi,

i've been trying to gonfigure offline and automated facilities for linux.
i've successfully configured the email side of things with sendmail and
fetchmail via diald and cron

but i'm running into problems with web pages :-(

i've packaged up my config files as several people have requested copies and
i'd like to do the same with off line web browsing. a few of my friends are
starting to use linux and this seems to help get over the hurdle of "well i did
it with windows easily enough!".

the config i'm trying is to use squid as the proxy set to 'offline on' in the
config file so as not to verify web pages when requested and so provide off
line viewing of the cache. i use diald to start up a ppp connection when
required.

the problem is that although this works some of the time, occationally it
fails. by this i mean that when using netscape to browse, and a NEW web page is
requested, diald starts the connection but no packets are exchanged when pppd
is running. all future attempts to connect meet with the same result...... i've
been running diald for some time now with no probs like this so i can't see this
beeing the prob? the only way round the issue is to reboot. i've killed the
diald process and restarted, killed squid and netscape. when i run kppp and try
to query the modem, it reports that the modem is busy.... this suggests that
some process is trying to access the modem? i can't find any lock files
causing this though........

i removed the firewall rules just in case but to no availe.

the only other aspect i have comsidered is the daild input buffer being full of
requests.... if it did fill up it wouldn't see new requests and so not attempt
to reconnect!?!? but i'm guessing :-)

if anyone has any advice on either rectifying this or on alternative methods
i'd appreciate it.............

-- 
Thanks,
        Ross
               ross.h [at] ntlworld.com
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