Richard Kettlewell said: > The diald package removes all the hassle of starting and shutting down > network connections over a transient link, incidentally - you might > like to investuigate that.
But does it handle dynamic IP address assignment nicely? Previous diald packages didn't, and I don't know if they even can. It's really quite annoying to start up ftp, have to kill it once the link comes up, and then start it again. Instead, I just created a group 'ppp', and did: chgrp ppp /usr/sbin/pppd chmod 2750 /usr/sbin/pppd chgrp -R ppp /etc/ppp chmod -R o-rwx /etc/ppp So, users in group 'ppp' can fire up the ppp link. -- Scott Barker Linux Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cuug.ab.ca:8001/~barkers/ (under construction) [ I try to reply to all e-mail within 5 days. If you don't ] [ get a response by then, I probably didn't get your e-mail ] [ (we have a sometimes sporadic connection to the internet) ] "May the Great Camel of Paradise bestow upon you and yours a dropping." - (?)
