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I seem to recall reading some where that it's not possible to invioke KPPP when you launch an internet app. Neither Konqy nor KMail have options in their setups that will call KPPP (not like IE or OE anyway). I just got used to connecting just by clicking the plug icon in the tray whenever I wanted to send mail or browse. That was before I got DSL, of course. :wink:

Please note what Distro you are using when posting, it helps in forming a complete response.

For example, if you are using SuSE, SuSE has a utility that will auto dial called Kinternet.

I think that's not so easy to do for general use.

You'd have to find out which program caused the traffic to decide which user to ask.

And it will be even more difficult if two programs from different users access the network simultaniously or if the user program just triggered a network operation in a program running as a daemon.

Most people comming from other operating system do not think about mulit user implications.
Of course it's not their fault, they are used to think single user.

Cheers,
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Original von probono

You're right, multiuser is not a issue here since I am talking about a home machine that runs always under the same user only.

I'll try it again.
The system architecture is inherently multi user.
I am the only human user on this system, but processes belonging to 4 users are currently running. Several as "root", two as "daemon" and apache is runnings as "www-data"

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So is there any chance to find out (e. g.with a shell script or otherwise) whether any application wants to create traffic?

I think you can't do that on the application level.
You can just monitor the network device and see if traffic wants to go through.
Autodialers lke wvdial do this to see when they have to dial in.

Maybe the autodialer you use has the possibility to execute a script before dialing.
In this case you could have a script determine one user having a X11 display and, in case this user has authenticated localhostwith xhost, popup a dialog asking for dial-in permission.

erugger66 hinted that SuSE has a tool doing this all by itself.
Perhaps it is available as a single package as well.

Cheers,
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I have done some quick searches for Kinternet:

http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/conectiva/…45-128.src.html

Maybe this app http://apps.kde.com/nf/2/info/id/2279?sid=&sid= can be extended to match your needs.

You could contact its author.

Cheers,
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Being part of the KDE main packages has the disadvantage that the developer has to conform to the release cylcle.
This is usually only a good idea once the product has majored enough.

However the author could apply for a place in a kdeextragear package.
Has the advantage of being translated by KDE's translators but also means you hvae to announce ans stick to message freezes before your own releases.

As a Debian user you wouldn't see a big difference if it just was available in the package pool, independed where the source is hosted, so you just need to find a Debian packager for it :wink:

Cheers,
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