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Another thought - http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rc-scripts.xml refers to |
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"online" and "offline" runlevels as suggestion for offline machines. Can we |
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make this part of the standard? I imagine a lot of users (and developers too) |
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do run offline machines and it makes sence to have some guidance to this. A |
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machine attempting to make connections to the internet when there isn't one |
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is frustrating. Rather that everyone developing their own solutions I see |
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standardisation as a mechanism around this. I noticed Redhat/Mandrake (please |
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don't flame me for mentioning them here) have the directories |
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/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup.d /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifdown.d |
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for such a purpose. I have faith that Gentoo can also meet this requirement |
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in its own way. |
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Scripts that depend on online/offline status can have requirements to start up |
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at a "default" runlevel and wwwoffled, pdnsd, sendmail are example of this. |
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To make these scripts and others work properly in an offline/online manner |
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they need to be told about the connection status. As these scripts are often |
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in the /etc/init.d directory (having started at the default runlevel) may I |
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humble propose an "online|offline" arguement to these scripts? This would |
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consolidate the functionality of the script in one place rather that having |
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duplicates (e.g. wwwoffled and wwoffled-offle). Additional functionality such |
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as IP changes could also be incorportated here too. I propose these be |
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started with something like "rc-online|rc-offline" in the same way that |
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/sbin/rc would start other scripts (exept with a different arguement). |
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I'm willing to submit changes to all the packages that I work with (and others |
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for the fun of it) that depend on offline/status indicators but what I realy |
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require is some guidnce on how online/offline wants to be handled by the |
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Gentoo community in general. |
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