Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:51:31PM -0500, David Morse wrote: > John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: > >Paul E Condon writes: > > > >>Look at the diald package. > > > > > >Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. > > I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the und

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
John Hasler Add to Address Book wrote: Paul E Condon writes: Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. I have no trouble to get pppd to demand->dial, its the undemand->hangup that is proving trickier, since this ISP sends all kinds of crandom carp

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > Look at the diald package. Or just use pppconfig to configure pppd to use demand dialing. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello David Morse (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Bummer, so when root starts up ppp0 at boot time, there's no way for > the user to shut it down. Guess we won't be using /etc/init.d/ppp > anymore. Maybe configuring sudo to allow users to run poff with root permissions can solve that problem. b

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 02:18:43PM -0500, David Morse wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > >>All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now > >>when > >>users run "pon demand-wvdial"... > > > > ^ > > I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdi

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
John Hasler wrote: All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ I named my ppp connection /etc/ppp/peers/demand-wvdial, because ppp calls "wvdial --chat" to negotiate the login, and because its theoreti

Re: pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread John Hasler
> All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when > users run "pon demand-wvdial"... ^ Explain, please. > Similarly, when poff is run as user, and pon had been called previously > by root, it complains thusly: /usr/bin/poff: /bin/kill faile

pon does nothing when run by users

2003-12-11 Thread David Morse
All my users are in groups dip and dialout. They've relogged in. Now when users run "pon demand-wvdial" pppd starts, but the modem doesn't DO anything. When root runs the same command, busy modem dialing ensues. Similarly, when poff is run as user, and pon had been called previously by roo