At 15:05 11/8/99 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>This is true, and that's a valid request. Service information exported
>via DHCP needs to get around.
>
>However, something we should think about would be if there is a better
>way to do this than having pump edit N different random files in the
>system (and usually getting them wrong, at least one of my machines
>always gets its /etc/resolv.conf file trashed by pump -- then there are
>things like interactions with nscd etc.)
why is pump editing anything? why not have it spew all the info it gets
into a file in name=value pairs and let the programms pull out what they
want??
I'll admit I don't use pump, but this scheme seems to work fine with
the set of scripts I have for changing between three different network
configurations.
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