Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan and modems

[gaw zay]

On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Charles Kerr wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 05:23:50PM +0100, Graham Orr wrote:
> > gaw zay wrote:
> >
> > > try setting Pan to retry 100 times that should be enough I guess, click
> > > on the button on the left bottom corner that says 'Offline' most of the
> > > time and set max retries at whatever you think is good. 100 is just a nice
> > > round decimal number, try 0010 0000  or whatever your favorite numbering
> > > system considers a round number ;)
> >
> > Thanks for the reply. I already had it set to 400 and it seemed to make
> > no difference. So I bumped it up to 10000000... still little difference.
> > I guess it's rapidly retrying and failing, or the task retries isn't the
> > problem.
>
> Perhaps, if a task fails because a socket connection can't be opened,
> the task should `sleep' for awhile before retrying?

perhaps, sleep(x) where x >= 5 && x <= 10 maybe? a minute sounds too long to me.
I have retries set to 99 ...


brian
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