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Re: Bug#19129: sendmail: support PPP links --- use /etc/ppp/ip-up.d



On Sun, Mar 08, 1998 at 12:52:41PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:

> 	Firstly, I do not disagree with the concept. The concept is
>  nice. What I disagree with is the implementation of some of the
>  scripts, (slrn does it right, but I would rather look in one file for
>  my ip scripts, rather than have them scattered all over /etc)

If you want all scripts to behave uniformly, why not do the test in
ip-{up,down} rather than in all the scripts separately?

> Adam> Oh come on --- *conffile*
> 
> 	Exactly. A one line solution -- and you prefer the overhead of
>  conffiles, and making users edit scripts. And *I* am the one often
>  accused of being user unfreindly? ;-)

Speaking as a user, I'd much rather edit a script, where I can see what it's
doing, than a config file.


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