On Sat, 8 Mar 2003, James Miller wrote: > 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). > > Thanks for any help. > > James > - I don't know what diald is exactly - just a wrapper for pppd? pppd itself doesn't _have_ to run as root, it's just that the user that runs it needs permission to read and write the modem device it is to use -- pppd is normally installed as suid root -- and the user that runs it may stop it.
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