Re: kexpress better than krn?

[Kevin Forge <forge@forge.kfs>]

Birger Langkjer wrote:
> 
> Den søn, 10 okt 1999 skrev du:
> > Birger Langkjer wrote:
> > >
> > > Den lør, 09 okt 1999 skrev du:
> > > > Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Birger Langkjer wrote:
> > > > >
> ...
> > > Yes, there is a KDE frontend for it:
> > > http://www.ibk.dyn.priv.at/home/vogel/lin-apps/keafnode
> > > ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/unstable/apps/network/keafnode-0.1.tar.gz
> >
> > I am geting it now.  I'll report on how well/if it works.
> 
> I'm surprised at how easy it was to setup (not windows-easy, but easy
> according to Linux standards). However there's one little thing: You
> have to run 'fetchnews' as root everytime you log on with your modem.
> They recommend adding a line to ppp-up, but I'm using kppp! Do you know
> how I can avoid doing it manually every time?

KPPP has an option to execute a command on conect.  Set this to
something like 

# kdesu -c "fetchnews"

and it will just ask for the root password.  If you are insane enogh 
to make something suid root then do that for a script like "fetchmynews"
and have KPPP execute that on conect ( no nead for entering a password
each time ).  Of course the script wold just say

fetchnews