[leaf-user] using inetd to pon/poff or ifupdown ppp0

[Matt]

I've been playing around with inetd trying to get it to launch pon or 
poff when certain ports are hit.  I have opened shorewall on these ports 
(1022, 1021), configured /etc/services, /etc/inetd.conf, and 
/etc/protocols.  the lines I added are below.  I'm not sure why it 
dosn't work...

I don't NEED to do this through inetd, but i thought it would be 
convienient.  all I need is a simple way for people to manualy 
start/stop ppp0 without ssh-ing in as root.  my first try was to create 
a cgi script for sh-httpd to run...but sh-httpd dosn't run scripts as 
root so it didn't work (i don't feel comfortable with suid root).

ideas please?

thanks,
-matt
services:
pppup           1021/tcp                        # bring up ppp0 when hit
pppdown         1022/tcp                        # bring down ppp0 when hit
inetd.conf:
pppup   stream  tcp     nowait  root    /tmp            /usr/bin/pon
pppdown stream  tcp     nowait  root    /tmp            /usr/bin/poff
protocols:
pppup   1021    TCP
pppdown 1022    TCP


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