Re: Bug#19133: distributed-net: support PPP -- /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/distributed-net wanted
[You (Manoj Srivastava)]
>>>"aph" == aph <aph@debian.org> writes:
>
>aph> To support users on PPP links, I suggest you add a conffile shell
>aph> script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/distributed-net. A possible version
>aph> of that file:
>
>>> !/bin/sh
>
>aph> [ -x /usr/bin/distributed-net ] && distributed-net -update
>
> Please do not implement the ip-up script exactly like that,
> since it would suddenly start doing stuff at every net connection on
> upgrade. Instead, have the script read a file in /etc/ppp (details to
> be determined on debian-policy) and look for /^distributed-net.*UP=YES/
> or exit silently.
This is silly. It's a conffile, if you want it turned off, then chmod
a-x it. If you want it shipped turned off, then ship it without the
execute bit. Why add more debian-specific, PPP-specific infrastructure
for well-established 'run-parts' type infrastructure. Why have yet
another file to parse thru and understand and submit bugs against when we
have 'chmod' and 'rm' and the conffiles mechism?
> The default should be OFF, since nothing is put in the file at
> all. If the sysadmin wants it, they can edit in the configuration
> file.
See above. Certainly possible I am not adversed to shipping it mode
0644 rather than 0755....
> Most sites have cron jobs set up already.
You might be confused. The only cron job that is at all obliquely
connected to distributed-net is a weekly log rotation.
OTOH, I might be confused in the sense that I don't know how my proposed
script would interact with an already running distributed-net. Would it
kick up another daemon? Is there just a signal to send it to tell it to
flush the queue? Is there a way on link downage to tell it to not even
try to hit the key server?
All questions I leave up to the maintainer to address or shrug off as the
maintainer sees fit.
.....A. P. Harris...apharris@onShore.com...<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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