> Hi there! > > On 03-Mar-2000 Wouter Hanegraaff wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 11:03:52AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> now if there was some good way to define and switch among profiles... > >> in addition to network settings, i'd like "profiles" to contain things > >> such as indications of which daemons are running, which XF86Config > >> file to use, whether an external keyboard is being used, etc.
> I use 'netenv' for that. You can set specific variables which then in turn > can be used by init-scripts. When I'm at the lab of the universitiy I have > ethernet and a wheel-mouse, at home I only have the wheel-mouse and dial-in, > on the road no wheel-mouse but dial-in. This makes three different profiles > which can be set up easily with 'netenv'. netenv presupposes that you should reboot, which sucks. My laptop lives hibernated - I never reboot it unless I'm changing kernels. So if you're rebooting cool. According to its doco it also INSISTS you enter something; no defaults. > > Of course the script could relink some other files as well. The > > /etc/pcmcia/networks.opts allows the execution of certain commands after > > setting up or shutting down the interface, which is an appropriate place > > to shut down or (re-) start your daemons > If using 'netenv' there's no need for that - pcmcia can use the options > provided by 'netenv'. This makes things very easy :) Just because I've stepped onto the net doesn't mean I'm ready to run my daemons yet. I think I'd use a seperate runlevel for that stuff. And I could plug in a mouse and monitor without getting cardslots involved, so is using pcmcia to trigger it really wise? * Heather
