Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Sam Edge To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: activating a dial-up connection from cygwin Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 15:46:39 +0100 Organization: . Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <7cg2ivo56t2dqc91b57gcjnom7qvjk964u@4ax.com> References: <0d1001c352b5$3e6328f0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> In-Reply-To: <0d1001c352b5$3e6328f0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Posting-Agent: Hamster/2.0.0.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id h6PEl1h11678 "Rob" wrote in <0d1001c352b5$3e6328f0$6c0aa8c0@adexainc.com> in gmane.os.cygwin on Fri, 25 Jul 2003 10:01:28 -0400: > Hello, > > I was wondering if there was any way to activate an existing windows 2000 > dial-up connection from the cygwin command line. > > The reason I want to know is because I have a shell script that > automatically backs up files to a remote computer (which is only accessible > through a vpn connection). Since I don't want to maintain the VPN > connection all the time, I need a way to start it up (and possibly shut it > down) from the command line. Try typing rasdial /help from a command line. It's a built-in in NT, 2k and (I think) XP and works fine for me from CMD.EXE or bash. There's a freeware (or perhaps shareware) version available for 9x/Me as well. You'll have to Google for that. Regards, -- Sam Edge -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/