On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 14:37 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: > I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people > get their laptop to switch mail settings between "inside horrible > network" and "normal operation"
Gentoo Linux has an RC system that has the concept of "named
runlevels"... so we tend to have laptops that are setup something like:
/etc/runlevels/
default/
network/
wireless/
office/
and then have different /etc/init.d/ RC scripts added to these
softlevels as appropriate - for example, in the "office", bring up
cupsd; in "wireless" we're want the NetworkManager daemon running, etc.
As root, it's just
# rc office
etc to switch. Rather nice. Anyway, that's our gateway to running custom
scripts depending on environment.
AfC
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