Re: adding scripts to network tools

Hi Benjamin :),

On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 21:59 -0500, Benjamin Montgomery wrote:
> Hi, I've been playing around with the network config part of
> system-tools for awhile (while at lest since I installed Ubuntu), and
> there is one feature I really wish it had.  I want to add a setting so
> that for each profile I can have the tool run scripts at pre-up,
> post-up, and down (like interfaces has).  Has anyone thought about 
> adding this?  I've starting hacking on the 1.3.0.1 source to add this.
> 
> I'd be interested in hearing what other people think about adding this
> to the network configuration part of system-tools.

Hmmm, as far as I can tell, the hability to run such scripts is a debian
only feature, and including them at the g-s-t backends level wouldn't
help a lot for other distros, as it would be a g-s-t only feature (no
integration at all with distros != debian)

The switch from running ifup/ifdown to running ifconfig manually was
forced by some instant-apply restrictions in the network tool, I'd
really hope to see the backends be able to switch again to ifup/ifdown
with the ongoing 2.0 concept/architecture.

However, It would be very great to see such patches for debian systems
in the mean time :)

	Regards

> 
> -Ben
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