On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 19:54:30 -0600, Jeff Vian <jvian10(a)charter.net> wrote:
Parameshwara Bhat wrote:
> Dear Jeff Vian,
>
> It does work.Thank you very much.
>
> But for sudo to work,it appears,an open terminal seems to be
> necessary.When I vreated an icon for connection and gave command 'sudo
> "usr/sbin/kppp" ' it didn't work until I ran with the option
'open in
> terminal'.A little crude it feels.Is it possible to do without that ?
Glad to help with gettin them set up.
As far as your next question I really do not know. I use the command
line a lot and never have needed to do a sudo command from an icon so ??
If they have a terminal open, closing it will kill the kppp session so
it may not be an issue.
That is an issue! I closed the terminal and pppd process
was on till I was
surprised when I received a reply mail to the mail I had just sent.When I
looked up the process table pppd was on.I haven't tried it again as now I
have broken the link between kppp and consolehelper to make it point
direct to the kppp program (somebody suggested that on the list ) and set
permissions and group ownership so that I can replicate dial up settings
on each user separately.That is more practical as other members in the
family are not as familiar.
I can alternatively use webmin to connect which in the backend uses wvdial.
Thanx everybody who helped giving diff suggestions.
Maybe you should ask this question on the list,, about running a
session like this without opening a terminal..
Yes, I definitely would like somebody to point me to online manual page
about iconifying applications(Desktop link to applications) and Run a
Command.I am not clear about all the options there.
Parameshwara Bhat