I don't know how, but I'm somehow receiving your e-mails and I've never subsribed to any debian mailing list... any explanation?
Adam P. Harris wrote: > [You (Manoj Srivastava)] > >>>"aph" == aph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
