Re: Executing commands at home and elsewhere

[Kjetil Kjernsmo <kjetil kjernsmo net>]

Hi and thanks for the quick reply!

I was meaning to start working on it, but the Real World came in and 
interferred, anyway, here we go. :-)

On Tuesday 19 June 2007, Darren Albers wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:

> > There's a tool called NetworkManagerDispatcher that calls scripts
> > in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d when connections go up and down
> > that most people use for this sort of thing, actually. 

> Here is one list (Though it is somewhat short since I haven't seen
> any posted lately):
> http://www.darrenalbers.net/wiki/index.php?title=NetworkManagerScript
>s
>
> I think what you want is to use something whereami in conjunction
> with NetworkManagerDispatcher.

Great stuff, this is what I'm looking for, for sure. 

whereami seems to have everything I have looked for in terms of 
determining where I am. So, what remains is just executing scripts 
depending on the location. 

NetworkManagerDispatcher will only execute the scripts in the first 
level /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d directory, right, not descend 
into subdirs?

So, I was thinking about a setup similar to the Apache 2 setup on my 
box, i.e. create /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/scripts-available
and /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/scripts-enabled and in the latter 
again subdirs for each of the locations, given the same names as in the 
whereami config, which would symlink to the actual scripts to be 
launched at each location 
in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/scripts-available

This would allow for relatively straightforward setups in the supposedly 
common case that there are several actions that would be in common for 
different locations, but not all. 

Does that sound like a reasonable approach?

Kjetil
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