Re: Run a script when connection goes down?

[Christopher Aillon <caillon redhat com>]

On 11/07/2005 10:17 AM, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> On 11/07/2005 07:31 AM, Martin Høy wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > At my company, we place a lot of common software on NFS-shares.
> > These shares are mounted, and the directories placed in $PATH when
> > the clients are connected to our network.
> >
> > The trouble begins when someone disconnects their ethernet-cable,
> > since a lot of directories in $PATH is no longer accessible.
> >
> > Is it possible to make NetworkManager run a s script when a connection
> > is lost? If so, it would be fairly easy to create a script to umount 
> > the NFS-
> > shares when the connection to the NFS-server is no longer available.
> >
> >   
> Make sure the NetworkManagerDispatcher service is started, and put 
> your script into /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/
>
> Your script must handle two arguments, the device which received the 
> on/off status change and the new state of the device.
>
> e.g. it should be prepared to handle getting invoked as:
>
> foo eth1 on
> foo eth2 off
Except it will be "up/down", not "on/off".