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@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ as does any other laptop or phone connecting to this wifi. (Apart from Crowley,
<h3>How it works - in words</h3>
<p>The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One">Acer Aspire One</a> netbook is running Debian Linux operating system
(<em>Buster</em> oldstable v10.13 in 2023)
(<em>Bookworm</em> stable v12.6 in 2024)
with the lightweight <a href="https://xfce.org/">[xfce]</a> window mananger. It runs a script once every 60s which checks whether it can access the internet. If it can't, it attempts a re-login to the Gasthof wifi system, which takes 5-10 seconds. If it still can't access the internet it deletes nearly all the configuration and reloads everything - which takes about 30s. The mere fact that it accesses the internet every minute is enough for the Gasthof system to keep the connection open - until it times out completely which it does after an hour or so.
<p>The <str>used</str> scripts on the netbook live in <var>/root/fakenet</var> so that the cron job (running as root) can access them and things work even if /home is not mounted. [This is not the usual Linux place to keep such things.] The cron file lives in the usual place in <var>/etc/cron/cron.d/fakenet</var>.