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.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.
I can alternatively use webmin to connect which in the backend uses wvdial.
Thanx everybody who helped giving diff suggestions.
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.
Maybe you should ask this question on the list,, about running a session like this without opening a terminal..
Parameshwara Bhat
