martin f krafft wrote: > Anything else? Do you know of packages that rely on this > functionality? Do you have scripts of your own which modify the > environment? Would you please be so kind as to explain to me what > they do, and help me figure out whether there isn't a better way for > them? > My suggestion:
* Look at any package in unstable that provides files in </etc/dhcp3/dhclient-*-hooks.d>. I suspect this won't be many to look at. Check that none of these packages do anything weird. * Don't include this (stupid) functionality in netconf. * Solve any issues that occur on a case by case basis, e.g. it sounds like Theodore Tso's issue can be solved within netconf. * Document this somewhere. I suspect anything that relies on changing environment variables like this solves a problem that would better be solved within netconf itself. However this is going to have to be determined on a case by case basis. On my installed system (ok, this is Ubuntu Hardy but I suspect Debian will be similar if not identical): /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d: total 12 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1096 2008-03-21 21:56 avahi-autoipd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1018 2008-04-03 00:37 debug -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1753 2008-04-03 08:30 samba* /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d: total 16 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1024 2008-04-03 00:37 debug -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 802 2008-03-08 07:37 ntpdate -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1097 2008-03-21 21:56 zzz_avahi-autoipd* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 333 2007-10-24 00:37 zzzz_dhcdbd At a quick glance none of these appear to change any environment variables. They are read-only operations only. Brian May _______________________________________________ netconf-devel mailing list netconf-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/netconf-devel