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Szerző: aitor_czr
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Címzett: Edward Bartolo, Steve Litt, dng
Tárgy: Re: [DNG] [DN Offlist G] netman GIT project
Ok, I like XFCE4 of course.

Aitor.

El 13/09/15 a las 20:13, Edward Bartolo escribió:

Hi aitor, I forgot to write that the final step is to let netman be
automatically run as soon as a user boots into XFCE4 or desktop or
window manager. Edward On 13/09/2015, Edward Bartolo <edbarx@???>
wrote:
>> >Hi aitor,
>> >
>> >I think, the time has come to start thinking about producing a .deb
>> >package for netman. However, we will have to use a post installation
>> >script to add the line:
>> >
>> >"iface wlan0 inet dhcp"
>> >
>> >to /etc/network/interfaces. The script has also to create a new
>> >directory under /usr/bin with the name netman ie /usr/bin/netman will
>> >hold both the frontend and the backend.
>> >
>> >The SUID for backend must be changed to that belonging to root. I do
>> >this as follows:
>> >chown root:root backend
>> >chmod u+s backend
>> >
>> >A new directory under /etc/network with the name wifi must be created
>> >i.e. /etc/network/wifi must be an existing directory.
>> >
>> >Then, the final steps would be to create a launcher for netman, the
>> >frontend. To enable automatic attempts at connecting basing on
>> >installed essid files under /etc/network/wifi, the parameter
>> >--auto-conn must be passed to netman upon invocation. --auto-conn need
>> >not be used and netman would not attempt to connect without user
>> >intervention. This feature is for those who want to control what
>> >happens on their machine.
>> >
>> >Edward
>> >
>> >