Re: NMDispatcher

[Derek Atkins <warlord MIT EDU>]

Quoting Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>:

> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 09:42 -0400, Derek Atkins wrote:
> > Thanks.  Unfortunately there is no /etc/init.d/NetworkManagerDispatcher
> > initscript in the 0.3.5 package, which was the basis of my question.  I
> > suppose
> > I could create a new initscript based on the existing one...
>
> Nobody was really using it around the 0.3.5 timeframe, so it never got
> packaged...  That doesn't mean we can't package it up now though.  If
> you install from CVS, NetworkManagerDispatcher gets install, but never
> activated, following a policy of "if people actually need it, then we'll
> run it all the time but only then."  I didn't want to run yet another
> daemon by default when there wasn't yet a clear use for it.

Well, the RPM installs it.. But there's no initscript to start the Dispatcher.

> > Thanks for the additional information..  It sounds like the script location
> > changed between 0.3.5 and whatever is in FC4 (STABLE_0_4?).
>
> Yes, to consolidate locations of stuff with the VPN changes in 0.4, so
> that everything is under /etc/NetworkManager rather than in 3 places at
> once.  We could make that change to 0.3.5 as well to get the two closer
> together, even though 0.3.5 won't have VPN support.

Might not be a bad idea, IMHO.  It's unlikely that people are using it 
right now
(since there's no initscript to start the Dispatcher).

> Dan

-derek

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