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Re: ppp and ip-up.d, ip-down.d



servis  writes:
> *- Kenneth MacDonald wrote about "Re: ppp and ip-up.d, ip-down.d"
>>>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Haber <Marc.Haber-lists@gmx.de> writes:
>> 
Marc> As you see, ip-up and ip-down export $PPP_OPERATION which is
Marc> either "up" or "down" and proceed to call run-parts
Marc> /etc/ppp/ip.d.
>> 
>> This doesn't allow for services to be stopped in a different order
>> from which they're started, unless you have scripts which only operate
>> on an "up" or "down" PPP_OPERATION, thus giving you two scripts for
>> each service again.
>> 

> How about having a ip.d directory that has the actual scripts(similiar
> to init.d) and then directories ip-up.d and ip-down.d with S and K
> symlinks to ip.d(similiar to rc?.d).  That way the order could be
> changed.

Gosh, that's how I thought it worked already.

Put me down for supporting this method.  IMHO it makes more sense to do
it this way than to have to learn *two* mechanisms for running parts of
something.

> This can be implimented with a minimal change to the ppp package setup.

> update-rc.d could be modified to create an update-ip.d to serve the same
> purpose for the ip.d scripts as the init.d scripts.

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> Brian 
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