From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 11 10:24:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oracle.clara.net (oracle.clara.net [195.8.69.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A343837BB97 for ; Thu, 11 May 2000 10:24:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from merlin@netlink.co.uk) Received: from [212.126.131.71] (helo=A470.com) by oracle.clara.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 12pwhh-000JqL-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 11 May 2000 18:24:53 +0100 Received: (qmail 20224 invoked by uid 1000); 11 May 2000 02:19:01 -0000 Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 02:19:01 +0000 From: Darren Wyn Rees Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ppp 'set filter' question Message-ID: <20000511021901.A86942@netlink.co.uk> References: <20000508215244.K13317@netlink.co.uk> <20000510233159.E10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <20000510233159.E10128@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Organization: A470 X-No-Archive: yes X-PGP-812C54B1: F8 79 5E 84 F0 20 A5 62 FA 2D E9 BD BE 06 7D 10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 11:32:00PM +0100, Ben Smithurst wrote: > If the users are primarily web users, how about setting their web > browser's start page to a CGI script on the FreeBSD server, which says > either "online" or "offline" (plus some useful links or whatever else > you want), or just give them the URL to that page so they can bookmark > it. You could probably write a script to bring the link up using a CGI > script too (and stick a link to that on the aforementioned "home" page). I think this is an excellent solution. I was aiming to create a 'home page' with helpful and brief 'howtos' and guidance notes there, so adding an 'ONLINE' / 'OFFLINE' notice and being able to dial up from a secure CGI link sounds reasonable. It never crossed my mind to consider CGI. Thanks for the innovative help. Darren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message