Re: Bug#147077: New directions for Debian PCMCIA support
On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Brian Mays wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 Jun 2002 23:25, Brian Mays wrote:
>
> > > > I'm currently putting a little work in the next release of
> > > > Debian's PCMCIA packages. =A0Please note the following changes to
> > > > the way things are done with respect to the kernel PCMCIA drivers:
>
> Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> added:
>
> > > While we are at it, a feature I'd like to see is the ability for
> > > user scripts to be executed on PCMCIA events. So for example as
> > > a non-root user I could specify a script to be run under my UID
> > > whenever the Ethernet connection goes up or down.
> This is fairly simple for the system administrator to implement on his
> own (see the "up" iface option in the interfaces(5) man page), but I
> think is a very poor thing to place on every Debian system, by default.
> The policy of allowing users to do such a thing is best left to the
> owner of the system involved. He should decide whether this is a good
> idea and might not like, for example, a dozen fetchmail processes to be
> started simply because he wanted to plug in a network card for a minute.
[...]
> system to call this script via ifup. Once again, I think that this
> should not be done by default. The administrator should have the option
> of enabling this feature, not the chore of disabling it.
I agree with the problems involved that you spotted. However it's the same
type of problem as say virtual hosts. It's about using ressources and
about debian defining some sane scheme so that various software systems
work cleanly together on them.
My addition was so short because I wanted to mention it. I will not be
implementing it. But in case someone steps forward and implements it for
his package it'd be nice to keep in mind that a universal solution to it
would benefit a lot of other packages which could then plug into that or
adapt the same type of solution.
Again, I am fully aware that checking a PCMCIA card and having immediately
many user processes started that go downloading their email, files etc. is
a presently unresolved problem of the proposed solution.
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