Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:51:31PM -0500, David Morse wrote: > John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: > >Paul E Condon writes: > > > >>Look at the diald package. > > > > > >Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. > > I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the und

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the undemand->hangup that is proving trickier, since this ISP sends all kinds of crandom carp

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Morse (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Bummer, so when root starts up ppp0 at boot time, there's no way for > the user to shut it down. Guess we won't be using /etc/init.d/ppp > anymore. Maybe configuring sudo to allow users to run poff with root permissions can solve that problem. b

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:18:43PM -0500, David Morse wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >>All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now > >>when > >>users run "pon demand-wvdial"... > > > > ^ > > I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdi

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
John Hasler wrote: All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdial, because ppp calls "wvdial --chat" to negotiate the login, and because its theoreti

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread John Hasler
> All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when > users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ Explain, please. > Similarly, when poff is run as user, and pon had been called previously > by root, it complains thusly: /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill faile