Anthony Campbell <acampbell@achc.demon.co.uk> wrote: => Is there any easy way of maintaining access to more than one ISP => without => re-writing the config files for smail and ppp? At present I use a => spare => computer for this but it's not very convenient. Here's what I do (and I use Demon too!): I have 9menu installed so that when I click on wmppp on my Window Maker Dock I get a menu appearing which is a list of IPs I use. I hope members of the list will forgive the small inclusion of a jpeg, but I really feel 9menu adds a great deal of flexibility to an X system and I have heard of few people who use it.
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The config file for this menu is very simple and calls up four scripts in my home directory - dial.Demon, dial.Eidosnet etc.. When one of the menu items is clicked on, the relevant script will be invoked to ensure that all the configuration files are correct for that provider, then it will issue the simple command 'pon' An example of the dial.Demon script is as follows: cp /etc/resolv.conf.demon /etc/resolv.conf cp /etc/chatscripts/provider.demon /etc/chatscripts/provider cp /etc/exim.conf.demon /etc/exim.conf As I said, very simple and it works great. Very easy to add future IPs too. If you would like me to send other examples please get back to me.
-- Phillip Deackes gsmh@gmx.net Debian Linux (Potato)
