Re: Running dispatch scripts before sleeping

[Jirka Klimes <jklimes redhat com>]

On Sunday 13 of November 2011 20:08:28 Lamarque V. Souza wrote:
> 	Hi,
> 
> 	I have received this bug in bugs.kde.org and I think it belongs to NM,
> not Plasma NM:
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286433
> 
> 	What I think is happening is that PowerDevil (KDE's power management
> widget) triggers the sleep event in UPower, NetworkManager listens for that
> event and goes to sleep before triggering the dispatch scripts in
> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d. That causes some troubles when someone
> needs to execute something before the connections are deactivated.
> 
> 	That problem can happen with any program that triggers UPower's sleep
> event, so it is not Powerdevil specific.
> 
> 	Does NM have any way to execute scripts BEFORE deactivating a
> connection? As far as I know NM executes the dispatch scripts only after
> the connection has been deactivated, right?

Yeah, there are no pre-up or pre-down actions now in NM dispatcher scripts.

See more info in past discussions:
* https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=387832, comment 2
* http://mail.gnome.org/archives/networkmanager-list/2010-March/msg00261.html

Jirka