systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits

Posted Apr 27, 2012 22:14 UTC (Fri) by jimparis (guest, #38647)
In reply to: systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits by zlynx
Parent article: Shuttleworth: Quality has a new name

A plugin might be overkill. Is putting your scripts in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d not sufficient? It seems that you would just have to check that the interface coming up is your VPN, and then do your named config magic as usual.

systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits

Posted Apr 28, 2012 1:45 UTC (Sat) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link] (1 responses)

by plugin do you mean a script networkmanager's dispatcher.d facilility that fires on network up/down?

i just want to be clear as to what you have attempted.

-jef

systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits

Posted Apr 28, 2012 2:29 UTC (Sat) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

replying to myself... somehow i punched the wrong comment to reply to and i was too late to be relevant anyways. Please ignore me.. just this once.

-jef

systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits

Posted Apr 28, 2012 21:02 UTC (Sat) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link] (2 responses)

I just looked around at the man pages and http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager

Do you realize the dispatch stuff isn't documented anywhere?

Besides that, NM makes it quite difficult to use DHCP and still point the DNS at ::1.

Which seems to be why someone wrote the dns=plugin stuff that is in the NetworkManager configuration file.

systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits

Posted Apr 29, 2012 0:44 UTC (Sun) by jimparis (guest, #38647) [Link] (1 responses)

> Do you realize the dispatch stuff isn't documented anywhere?

On my system, it's the majority of the "Description" section in "man networkmanager". See http://linux.die.net/man/8/networkmanager

> Besides that, NM makes it quite difficult to use DHCP and still point the DNS at ::1.

Under your IPv4 or IPv6 settings tab, just set the "method" to "Automatic (DHCP) addresses only" or "Automatic, addresses only". Then fill in the DNS servers yourself.

systemd & the tightly couple core band vs a world of many inits

Posted May 1, 2012 6:50 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (guest, #2285) [Link]

Hmm. Sure enough, it is there in the Description section. I never saw it. I probably skipped Description in order to get to the good stuff. It seems to me that most man pages put a description in Description and then the actually useful information in other sections.

Or it is possible that I was logged into a CentOS 5 system when I ran the man command. NetworkManager 0.7 (the RHEL 5 version) has a dispatcher.d directory, but nothing in the man page about it. And this time I double-checked.