My problem is that I'm a student and occasionally others use my machine.
The problem arises when either my room mate or a friend on the floor uses
my machine and needs to use windows instead of Linux for what ever reason.
The problem arises when I'm not in my room and the machine needs to be
rebooted to get into windows. I don't want to give every one my root
password to everyone who uses it, so I'd like to some how have the current
IP of my computer emailed to me whenever a ppp connection is made from my
machine. That way I could telnet to my machine and reboot it for them from
across campus if need be.
I'm sure that I could just write a script of some sort to do this, but I
don't have enough scripting experience to manage to figure it out on my
own. Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
My system is running Red Hat 5.2.
--Shawn Craver
University Of Connecticut
Computer Science and Engineering
Undergraduate Student
