[plug] Persistant ppp?

[Harry McNally]

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:36:10 +0800 Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

> > Would running the "kppp &" as root, then allowing the kids to go for 
> > it be
> > the best way?
> 
> Nope; use the /etc/ppp stuff and the "pon" and "poff" commands. "man 
> pon". Its not wonderfulyl user friendly but it works well.

Hi Garry

Further to Craig's pon/poff idea, the Computer Angels setup adds all new users
to the dip group which means that they can all pon. Trouble is, I _think_ the
user who pons (v.) must be the one who poffs (v.); can anyone confirm if this
is so and why it is so ?

It might be more useful to use sudo pon and sudo poff instead so the net
can be downed by anyone later in the day.

We have a CA member working on the mother of all dial-up GUIs that puts kppp
in the shade but we'll trumpet his solution loudly when it's ready to go (and
the reasons he has built it this way). There are still a couple of little
tweeks needed :-)

cu
Harry 

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