I get your point about access for others/maintaining a mailing list. Point taken. There's no one around me I'd trust on my machine because I'm not always sure what's going on with it and barely clean up after myself. :)

As for the RedHat net configurator and use outside of a graphical environment...

Barring that I'm missing your point, the way to launch a RedHat configured network interface is to exec /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/if{up/down} ppp0 (or whatever the interface is.) That's all that the RedHat configurator does, it just has the script tied to a button. I finally figured that out after getting sick of having to fire up X every time I wanted to do anything on the net, and continually screwing up my chat scripts.

As for tying up my phone line all day... agreed. Cron is better, and I intend to do it that way. Today I didn't because it was the first time I tried to log in to my box from somewhere besides in front of it (or beside it, if you want to count that time I ran an ADM3a into the serial port) and (is the self-deprecation thick enough here, yet?) didn't trust myself to set up at or cron correctly the first time.

Anyhow, thanks for a cool article... thanks for expanding on the things you took under consideration when setting your system up, and thanks for your restraint with the snotty newbie. :)

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