Newbie question: I've started experimenting with diald, since I'm planning on setting up a small network from which more than one computer will be needing to access the 'net. Diald works fine, in terms of connecting to the provider. My question is about stopping the process. So far, I've been able to stop diald only by opening a console and su'ing and issuing "poff." Trying to run poff from a console as user results in the message "/usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill failed. None stopped". I believe that this is because the process is owned by root, as ps axu shows. I need a more elegant and less restrictive process for stopping the diald connection than having to open a console, su, then issue "poff." Can someone please suggest alternative methods? Eventually, I plan on adding a poff item to my Icewm toolbar. But understanding various ways to stop the process is prerequisite to that (I know how to edit the toolbar config file, and have some understanding of how the entries should look).
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