Re: [[newbie] REAL Linux Question!!]

1999-08-21 Thread Michael Scottaline
hevnsnt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet (no matter how many times I show her) I am wondering if there is a way to make an icon in KDE to: 1) Start the Kppp Dialer

Re: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!

1999-08-21 Thread Rick Murphy
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, hevnsnt wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet (no matter how many times I show her) I am wondering if there is a way to make an icon in KDE to: 1) Start the Kppp Dialer

RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!

1999-08-21 Thread Stephan Schutter
Title: RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!! How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter Tired of waiting for Windows 2000? STOP WAITING! http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/ -Original Message- From: Rick Murphy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!

1999-08-21 Thread Steve Philp
Stephan Schutter wrote: How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, hevnsnt wrote: My girlfriend has been b*tching at me to put windows back on my machine because she cant figure out how to connect to the internet

Re: [RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!]

1999-08-21 Thread Steve Philp
Michael Scottaline wrote: Stephan Schutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can you make the os auto dial when it hears an ftp, http - request? Stephan Schutter == Good question. Hope you (we) get an answer. I know in "that

Re: [RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!]

1999-08-21 Thread Civileme
Well, I have a script to turn ppp0 OFF 50 minutes of every hour when I am not using itg. Yes, the "other" system lets application programs hook into the operating system core to make demands like that. I can well imagine it is possible for a daemon to be created to initiate ppp0 at need, but

RE: [newbie] REAL Linux Question!!

1999-08-20 Thread Ken Wilson
Make it a shell script by burying it in a file called 'othernet.sh', or any name of your choice. The text you want to type into the file goes like this #!/bin/sh telnet other.net.com Store the file in /usr/local/bin and then cd to /usr/local/bin and type 'chmod 766 othernet.sh' Now