ubuntu pptp connections from command line

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Published on 2011-11-20T23:46:48Z Indexed on 2011/11/21 1:55 UTC
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I'm using a lot of vpn connections daily for my work and I want to program a pptp dialer in python to ease my job a little bit by automating things. I usually go with network-manager-pptp to setup my connections but I would like to skip this gui tool and do it from the script. Something like a dialer.

My question is. Can pptp connections be established using the command tools only? Also, where does network-manager-pptp saves its failes so I can take a look and see what configs it generates.

Any help is much appreciated.

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