Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Mikael Hallendal <micke codefactory se>]

ons 2002-06-26 klockan 09.46 skrev Thomas Vander Stichele:

> I wrote something similar to use on my redhat laptop because I couldn't 
> get the debian-y tools (like divine) to work properly.  It uses a modified 
> version of one of donald becker's tools to trigger a recheck when the 
> network cable is plugged in again, and then uses arp requests to detect on 
> which of the (pre-defined) known networks you are.
> 
> If it finds a network, it changes net configuration accordingly, as well 
> as some other files (which you can easily expand on), like fstab, hosts, 
> sources.list, and so on.  It also executes some commands you define (like, 
> automatically mount a few shares you use).  I even thought of making it do 
> an rsync of my folder with to-be-backed-up files, so that I always have a 
> full backup of everything at home and at work.
> 
> Works beautifully and for laptop users in the GnomeOS something like this 
> is a must-have feature.  I can't tell you how easy it is now for me to 
> just take my laptop home, plug it in and keep on working ;)

Nice.

> So something like this needs to go in.  Only problem with my version of it 
> is that it lacks front-end stuff and it's probably not that easy to make a 
> good GUI for it if you want the features I have with it (since what you 
> actually do is create a few of these system files for each configuration).

Yes, but you now have the experience of doing it once and can probably
do it (or help someone else do it) to be easier to configure from a GUI.

Regards,
  Mikael Hallendal

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