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>>>>> "Curt" == Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
    Curt> On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, Michael Richardson wrote:

    >> So, what I really need is a way for an rc script to indicate that it
    >> has more stuff to do, but it needs to defer until later ("the end") would be
    >> fine.

    Curt> I think it would be cleaner to do the following:

    Curt> 1. Make your early rc script write a state variable to a file (i.e.,
    Curt> /var/run/network-state).

    Curt> 2. Create a new rc script that runs at the end (or wherever else you
    Curt> want), reads /var/run/network-state, and takes appropriate action based
    Curt> on that.

  I considered doing this.
  It fails for the situation where I boot with no network - either because
there was no network card, it was not connected, there was no DHCPd, I was
too far from the wireless base station, etc. 

  Remember that dhcpd will go into the background and keep trying.

  Now, I could have an rc file that writes a file that says "rc processing done"
and wait for that file to appear. We still need the event notification
system.
  {Tero Kivinen did one that he sent me a month or so ago and I have yet to
look at. }

]       ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine.           |  firewalls  [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON    |net architect[
] mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca http://www.sandelman.ottawa.on.ca/ |device driver[
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