I think there is a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed before any major improvement of intscripts can happen. As far as I can tell, currently, there is no way for an init script to have a dependency on "networking".
For example I have a machine with multiple interfaces that connect to different networks. The problem is the ifup call starts the process of bringing up the interfaces but has no way to block until all of the interfaces are up and functional. Especially if they are all DHCP and the DHCP servers are slow to respond. This makes it impossible for a init script to depend on networking because it may run before the network is fully accessible, even if its S99. Overall, I think that any new system needs to spend some serious time working on dependency issues. Troy _______________________________________________ initscripts-ng-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/initscripts-ng-devel
