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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!skate.demon.co.uk!skate.demon.co.uk!skate.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Seek dial-up PPP widget for NetBSD/fvwm2 Date: 19 Apr 1997 09:25:13 +0100 Organization: The Bath Room Message-ID: <5j9vh9$5oc@skate.demon.co.uk> References: <pk9208cl6wh.fsf@btm0qt.se.bel.alcatel.be> NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: skate.demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: Brian's News Reader V0.10 [NetBSD] Lines: 33 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5833 Christopher Gray <grayc@se.bel.alcatel.be> writes: > I have a dial-up PPP connection with a fixed IP address; up to now > I've been using chat/connect to launch PPP from the shell. I was > wondering whether someone Out There has made something more point- > and-click; an fvwm2 ButtonBar module would be nice. Before I start > learning Tcl/Tk ... I just added a menu item to my .fvwmrc file, "PPP On" that just uses sudo to run the command that brings up my ppp link.. if you do not know what sudo is, here is an extract from the README file.. iain This is the CU version of sudo, release 1.5.3 The sudo philosophy =================== Sudo is a program designed to allow a sysadmin to give limited root privileges to users and log root activity. The basic philosophy is to give as few privileges as possible but still allow people to get their work done. Where to find sudo ================== Before you try and build sudo, *please* make sure you have the current version. The latest sudo may always be gotten via anonymous ftp from ftp.courtesan.com in the directory /pub/sudo/. The distribution is cu-sudo.vM.m.tar.Z where `M' is the major version number and `m' is the minor version number. BETA versions of sudo may also be available. If you join the `sudo-workers' mailing list you will get the BETA announcements (see the `Mailing lists' section below).