[Firestarter-user] Re: REPOST: How do I make it start NOT

[T. <be...@ex...>]

Thanks for the replies, trizt & Ryan.



I've been running Linux for only about 6 months (with not nearly enough time for it) so I have to confess my relative ignorance...



Here is my script, which I am calling from GKrellm monitor.  I'm running GKrellm for the system sensors, and also to run pon and poff.



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#!/bin/bash

#script delays the start of Firestarter until connection established

sleep 10

sudo firestarter --start

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(The sudo doesn't ask for a password because I put firestarter in my sudoers file.)



In the built-in monitors for 'Net', there is a timer switch that I have running pon and poff.  Then on the ppp0 tab, I run the bash script in the 'Launch' box.  This gets firestarter going, but it's messy, and as I said, Firestarter goes entirely invisible.  It seems like the best place to start the firewall is in the pon script itself.  I did look it over, but I'm clueless about it.  Is that what you would recommend, and if so, how?



> This is really a two part thing, in your dailup script you run the

> firewall.sh script that has been generated by the firestarter gui.



Sorry, I don't understand that.  (Unless you are talking about the script that I wrote.)  I only find an firestarter executable binary file of the the type "application/x-executable".



> For gettign the gui to start you need to tell your desktop 

> environment to load the firestarter gui (most likely in hidden 

> mode, so you only get the try icon and not the whoel window 

> displayed).



Right--that is exactly what I want.  But all I get is a completely invisible startup--or a full-gui startup if I run it from a terminal or a Gnome menu.



> Ok, this is something of an ugly hack but....

>

> How do you initiate your dial up script? Can you just tack on "&&

> firestarter" ?



(Answered above.  I initiate the dialup script from a button in GKrellm.)  Ok, what does the && do?



Thank you for your assistance.



Tim





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