kinternet

firestomper41 · 09-15-2005, 06:00 AM

Is there any program that i can use to show me how long i have been connected, as kinternet does not seem to show that kind of information :-(

JZL240I-U · 09-15-2005, 06:32 AM

Huh? You mean the little plug-like symbol in the lower right corner? What about a right click with the mouse? There are also logs in /var/sys/log which catalogue and store each session...

firestomper41 · 09-15-2005, 08:26 AM

yes i know there is the log but it does not tell you when you connected or for how long you have been online.

JZL240I-U · 09-15-2005, 08:29 AM

You are sure about that? I'm sitting at a Win-box right now, but there is a log including these informations. Did you try the wvdial log, too? (Kinternet calls wvdial).

Didi you try the right-click?

firestomper41 · 09-15-2005, 08:34 AM

yes i'm sure there is a log that will give me this information, but i don't want to everytime go find the log and scroll through it just to find out how long i may be online already, so is there any program around that lets you know how long you have been connected?

JZL240I-U · 09-15-2005, 08:37 AM

Oh, that's something different. Did you try the right click by now? Because there should be a menu which lets you do the trick. Else search in the menus, somewhere in the depths of KDE is such a tool for certain, it's just that I'm not in reach of a Linux-box...

firestomper41 · 09-15-2005, 08:39 AM

i will try search my system for something as well as the web for maybe a wvdial program.

JZL240I-U · 09-15-2005, 08:42 AM

Hey, not so fast. Please read my previous posts again Kinternet is calling wvdial as a matter of routine ... also please answer my questions, they are meant to systematically try different venues and I can't be efficient when you don't even follow my suggestions or report the results ...

What kind of infrastructure do you have in Harare, your answers are impressively fast

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firestomper41 · 09-15-2005, 12:01 PM

the answer to your previous question is yes i have tried to do the right click and there is nothing there and have searched deep in the menu's and still nothing.

I am not in harare at the moment am in switzerland (look and you shall see that have changed my location)

JZL240I-U · 09-16-2005, 02:04 AM

Okay, yesterday evening I had no time to try myself, I hope I can test it over the weekend, since I clearly remember I used a utility for this during the time I had modem troubles.

In the meantime you might open a terminal and type something like the "tail"-command, which shows you just the last 20 (or in my example 30) lines:

tail /var/sys/log/wvdial.log

or

cat /var/sys/log/wvdial.log | tail -30

I'm not sure about the name of the log-file of wvdial, you'll have to search for that (also man tail

).

firestomper41 · 09-16-2005, 03:27 AM

ok shall give that a try. Had a look on the kdeapps website and think i found a program called kmodemlights and have installed it but can't run it now

firestomper41 · 09-17-2005, 05:09 AM

ok have found in kinternet that it does give you the time connected but only once you have disconnected.

JZL240I-U · 09-19-2005, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by firestomper41
ok have found in kinternet that it does give you the time connected but only once you have disconnected.

That's setting my mind at rest

after all it is the second item in the main menue of Kinternet

, I checked on sunday.

For taking the elapsed time I'm sure there is somwhere the functionality of a stopwatch (which you could maybe start by vwdial).