Another method is to add the modemlights applet to the GNOME panel. It
displays throughput and you start/stop the connection by right-clicking on the
applet. It displays a small green LED when online. You will need to enable
USERCTL=yes for it to work for normal users.
On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:21 linda hanigan wrote:
>Thanks,
>That does exactly what I wanted.
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mikkel L. Ellertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 8:50 PM
>Subject: Re: ifup ppp0
>
>
>> On Wed, 27 Sep 2000, linda hanigan wrote:
>>
>> > Hi,
>> > If my 11 year old wants to send email, I do not want
>> > to give her the root password so she can connect to
>> > the internet. I want to set it up so she can do it with
>> > her very restricted login.
>> > Thanks
>> > Linda Hanigan
>> >
>> A quick and dirty way to do it is to set USERCTL=yes in
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0, and the make a menu entry or
>> alias for /sbin/ifup ppp0 and /sbin/ifdown ppp0. An alias works well
if
>> you are working from the command line. This works well if you want
manual
>> control. If you are running 6.x, you can also play with the demand
option
>> of pppd. I am not sure how sell that part works, as I was still
running
>> 5.2 on the machine that was using dialup. Now I have DSL, so I don't
do
>> much with PPP...
>>
>> Mikkel
>> --
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