On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 11:54:00AM -0600, TODD WITTER wrote:
> own before checking my mail. Possible? Or is there a way to
> have the "pon" command executed following log in? Just curious.
> It would be nifty.
If you've got your PPP software set up correctly so that the "pon"
command dials up successfully, check your /etc/ppp directory for
a file called no_ppp_on_boot. Rename this file to ppp_on_boot (and
they say Linux is confusing), and the PPP software will dial every
time you start your computer. This is how Debian does it at least,
Storm might be different.
If for some reason you don't want to tie up your phone line the entire
time the computer is on (I can't imagine why not), and only want
the PPP connection brought up during login, there's an array of login
scripts you can edit. For a console login, the usual suspects are your
~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bashrc, etc. For an X login (wimp),
I forget what scripts are executed, but I do think you could stick the
appropriate command in your ~/.xsession, before the line that starts
your window manager. Note, though, "pon" doesn't work quite normally
when run from a script. You'd want to do something like
"/sbin/pppd call provider". I forget the exact syntax, because I
haven't used ppp in a while (heh heh heh - DSL)
Hope that helps!
--
Craig McPherson
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