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.