On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 06:22:22PM +0200, Jean-Christophe Boggio wrote: | Ref : Tuesday, October 23, 2001 4:46:10 PM | | d> On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 04:15:18PM +0200, Christian Eckert wrote: | d> This isn't right. There should be a directory /etc/network/ on your | d> system, if you installed the 'netbase' and 'ifupdown' packages. | | d> All you need to do is put the alias in /etc/modutils/my_aliases. For | d> example : | | d> echo "alias eth0 ne" >> /etc/modutils/my_aliases && update_aliases | | What is this "my_aliases" file
A file that can be named anything you want. You create it and put your aliases and options in there. | and update_aliases script ? Oops, should be 'update-modules'. When it is run, it concatenates everything in the /etc/modutils directory and creates (overwrites) /etc/modules.conf with the result. | Till now, I modify /etc/modutils/aliases and use update-modules but | everytime modutils is updated, I have to let dpkg overwrite my own | aliases and put them back to the new /etc/modutils/aliases. | | Is there a way to do this cleanly, like you do with your own aliases | file ? Where does update_aliases come from ? See above. | d> | As this file should be executed at boot time I have to create | d> | furthermore some symbol links in /etc/init.d/??? ,beginning | d> | with SXXname. | d> | now the questions: | d> | 1)Are there any rules for choosing the number XX ? | d> | This will obviously arrange the sequence of starting up | d> | different scripts. That means are there any scripts which have to | d> | be started before configuring the network? | | d> Yes, the number is chosen so that the order of startup is as intended. | | d> | 2)Do I also have to create a killing script KXXname? | | d> If you want to take down the network when you shutdown. | | d> | 3) I suppose that in each runlevel in which | d> | I want to use the network capabilities, I have to create this | d> | symbol-link | d> | also, right? | | d> Yes. | | Shouldn't he be using update-rc.d which does all this in a clean | manner ? Sure, you can use update-rc.d. I haven't used it much because it usually takes me longer to get the arguments right than to tweak the directory. I only use 1 runlevel anyways (not counting 0,1,6) -D
