* Mark Kirkwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now it pretty much does - but to trigger the ppp interface 'up' state I > find myself doing stuff like: > > $ ping <ip of ISP nameserver> > > or similar, because hostname access will just return "host not found" > immediately without trying to bring the link up.
You could simply ping some fixed IPs somewhere in the wide world. But I'm not shure if you really want such an quite uncontrollable automatic dialup or probably some button for "Dialup"/"Hangup" on the desktop ? For that way you need some way of privilege switching (w/o password). "su-wrapper" (not yet in portage) is your friend :) cu -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt == metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of packages in dozens of versions: http://patches.metux.de/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- -- [email protected] mailing list
