Package: network-manager Version: 0.8.1-4 Severity: wishlist It would be nice if (at least for experienced users) network-manager could enable them to modify some system configurations depending on the connection profile chosen. Some of this comes naturally through integration with resolvconf (which automagically sets up a local caching nameserver to use the nameservers specified in resolvconf, or obtained through dhcp, as forwarders). Another typical configuration which could be supported is the setting up of appropriate smarthosts for email delivery, be it via resolvconf or directly, or proxy servers etc.. Indeed, it would be desirable to be able to use the information which is obtained by dhcp (or which could be given by optional fields in the network-manager interface for setting up connections) for setting up appropriately services or, at least, environment variables (so that one could write resolvconf scripts to use them, for example).
As things stand, depending on where I move to work I have every time to manually set up exim4 to use the appropriate local smarthost, my browser to use the appropriate local proxy etc., despite network-manager automatically recognising the appropriate wireless network, and correctly connecting to it. It would be so much nicer if I could at least optionally attach a shell script to each network connection, so that everything would be set up just by choosing it. Thanks in advance Giacomo Mulas -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-jak (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to it_IT.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages network-manager depends on: ii adduser 3.112+nmu2 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii isc-dhcp-client 4.1.1-P1-13 ISC DHCP client ii libc6 2.11.2-7 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgnutls26 2.8.6-1 the GNU TLS library - runtime libr ii libgudev-1.0-0 164-2 GObject-based wrapper library for ii libnl1 1.1-6 library for dealing with netlink s ii libnm-glib2 0.8.1-4 network management framework (GLib ii libnm-util1 0.8.1-4 network management framework (shar ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 0.96-4 PolicyKit Authorization API ii libuuid1 2.17.2-3.3 Universally Unique ID library ii lsb-base 3.2-26 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii udev 164-2 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii wpasupplicant 0.6.10-2 client support for WPA and WPA2 (I Versions of packages network-manager recommends: ii dns 2.55-2 A small caching DNS proxy and DHCP ii ipt 1.4.10-1 administration tools for packet fi ii mod 0.4+git.20100624t180933.6e79d15-1+b1 D-Bus service for managing modems ii pol 0.96-4 framework for managing administrat ii ppp 2.4.5-4 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da Versions of packages network-manager suggests: pn avahi-autoipd <none> (no description available) -- Configuration Files: /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf changed [not included] -- no debconf information -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
