Re: ppp and new users (was: Re: Tecnology and marketing)

[Steve Dunham <dunham@cps.msu.edu>]

Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:

> what you can do, however, is provide a mechanism to make the user's job
> easier.  this could be done by setting up an /etc/isp directory containing
> chatscripts, resolv.conf, bind config, and other stuff which needs to change
> for each isp.

> say the user has three isps...call them moe, larry, and curly.   That would
> give three subdirectories:

>     /etc/isp/moe
>     /etc/isp/larry
>     /etc/isp/curly

How about:

  /etc/isp/moe/{resolv.conf,...}
  /etc/isp/larry/{resolv.conf,...}

then

  /etc/isp/current -> moe       (symlink)

and

  /etc/resolv.conf -> isp/current/resolv.conf
  /etc/... -> isp/curent/...


That way all that has to be changed is the symlink /etc/isp/current,
and the user has control over what /etc files are dynamically
changed. (e.g. he could replace resolv.conf with a real file and it
would no longer be dynamic).


Steve
dunham@cps.msu.edu



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