Re: [gentoo-laptop] wireless and service dependencies

[Will Briggs]

Fabio A Correa wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Study /etc/conf.d/net.example and write a postup() function in /etc/conf.d/net ; Postup is my
> preferred way of starting sshd and ntpd, because my wireless network is managed by
> wpa_supplicant. Then, when I move my laptop from an access point to another, such services must
> be restarted. Nothing better than having Gentoo restarting such services for you.
>
> Here goes an example:
>
> postup () {
>   /etc/init.d/ntpd restart
>   /etc/init.d/sshd restart
>   /etc.init.d/cupsd restart
> }

G'day Fabio,

Thanks for the post.  I'll have a play with this ASAP...

I guess the idea here is that you take /etc/init.d/foo out of the init
runlevels and let this postup function handle it - that way you don't
have any "WARNING: foo scheduled start..." messages on boot up.

So this would be a fix, but it doesn't actually attack the problem of
net.* service dependencies handled by runscript.sh, yes?

Only problem I see with this is this:

1) wireless (eth1) comes up - sshd (re)starts and all is well.
2) I ssh into the laptop from another machine
3) the cat-5 wire gets plugged in for some reason and eth0 comes up -
sshd restarts
4) The connection I had in 2) is lost, even though the link isn't.

Or have I got the wrong end of the stick here?
I'll have a play...

Thanks again,

W.
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