How to make arch safe enough to remote desktop?

Question

I have a dsl connection at home, and I need to remote from work to my home usually.
Sometimes I need to reboot my computer at home from a remote connection because I need to change to another OS.
The problem with arch, is that if adsl is not able to connect at startup for some reason, it wont try it later, and I will lost the machine.
Other distributions, like debian, keeps the daemon running until it connects, or try it later; I can do the same with windows and it dsl connection properties; but so far, I have not been able to do it with arch.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Well, i'd say pppd knows when it has been disconnected, and quits itself.
So, ensure you have the flag -detach in your pppd configuration file enabled, and configure your inittab similar to this
pd:23:respawn:/usr/sbin/pppd
This would ensure to reconnect when the pppd daemon quits. This might not be the proper arch way to go, but it should work
That's the commandline version, if you are running KDE, kppp has a reconnect method for pppd.
The other way would be to write a small shell or perl script to check if the daemon is running or if you still have a connection up.
Hope it helps
// STi