early-gdm redux ( I am sorry my way is better faster... for a desktop )

[Matthias Clasen]

On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 19:19 -0400, Jon Nettleton wrote:

> 
> Sure now you start answering the hard questions.  Well the scripts I
> use are all based around the same generic dispatcher.d script.  The
> only variance is whether you check in /var/lock/subsys or /var/run to
> figure out if the daemon is always running.  Other than that they just
> run service NAMEOFSERVICE on/off/restart.  If we could standardize and
> put all our lock files or pid files in a single place then we could
> run a single script from dispatcher.d that wraps symlinks put in
> /etc/rc.d/rcN.d/ and does the appropriate thing to the service.
> 
> hmmm, that is confusing.
> 
> /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/network-services
>     on interface up it loops through
>     /etc/rc.d/rcN.d/S(*) and either service $1 start or service $1
> restart depending whether
>                                         /var/run/$1 exists or not.
> 
> Now that I look at it like that does it make sense to make
> network-services an actual init-script that is responsible for for
> /etc/rc.d/rcN.d/
> 
> If we are running NetworkManager it is activated through dispatcher.d,
> otherwise we just enable it in standard init after network.
> 
> I think that should work.

So I talked a bit to Dan Williams about this today, and he said that
the dispatcher will need a bit of love for NM 0.7 to handle the fact
that there will possibly be multiple active interfaces, and one default
interface. Services could adapt to changes in the set of available
interfaces in smarter ways than just ifup -> service start, ifdown ->
service stop. 

Correct me if I am misremembering, Dan.