Thanks for the tips! I appreciate it! I was also told I could put kppp
in my autostart file and that should do it (as long as it's set for
autodial).
If there are any other hints, I welcome them! Thanks to all who've
helped already!
Todd
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On 28 Jun 00, at 13:46, Craig McPherson wrote:
> 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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