Bug#629060: update-hostname vs. network-manager

[Klaus Knopper <skolelinux@knopper.net>]

On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:48:44PM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote:
> On Freitag, 3. Juni 2011, Mike Gabriel wrote:
> > On Debian Edu workstations the update-hostname init script is executed
> > before the network-manager init script.
> 
> we could make update-hostname depend on the network-manager script, so that it 
> would always be executed after network-manager. I just dont know for sure what 
> will happen if eg network-manager has been removed...

Why not put update-hostname (or a symlink thereof) into
/etc/network/if-up.d, so it always gets executed whenever the client
gets a new IP address assigned?

Regards
-Klaus Knopper