From 4d5607abb47cf75168aff1f29b63b2f3cc9ea1f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Expo on server Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 08:19:49 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] debian version update - online edit of handbook/computing/netconfig.html --- handbook/computing/netconfig.html | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/handbook/computing/netconfig.html b/handbook/computing/netconfig.html index aa3186662..3d0452055 100644 --- a/handbook/computing/netconfig.html +++ b/handbook/computing/netconfig.html @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ as does any other laptop or phone connecting to this wifi. (Apart from Crowley,

How it works - in words

The Acer Aspire One netbook is running Debian Linux operating system -(Buster oldstable v10.13 in 2023) +(Bookworm stable v12.6 in 2024) with the lightweight [xfce] 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.

The used scripts on the netbook live in /root/fakenet 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 /etc/cron/cron.d/fakenet.