On 2011/10/13 05:45, Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> Hi jdow!
>
>   On 2011.10.12 at 18:28:02 -0700, jdow wrote next:
>
>>>>   Is it possible under SL6.1 to run a script (or insert commands in
>>>> ifcfg-ethX files) when a nic is up, immediatly after network script
>>>> runs?? Like for example it can do with debian/ubuntu: post-up
>>>> post-down.
>>>
>>> /sbin/ifup-pre-local and /sbin/ifdown-pre-local are executed (if exist)
>>> before bringing interface up&   down
>>>
>>> /sbin/ifup-local and /sbin/ifup-local are executed (if exist) after
>>> bringing interface up&   down and setting up routes.
>>>
>>> Argument to each will be interface name. Note that if you have aliases,
>>> this script will be called for each alias.
>>
>> OK, I have such a file that I still have to manually run when the system
>> reboots. I get no error messages nor is the file run.
>>
>> # ls --lcontext /sbin/ifup-local
>> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 system_u:object_r:bin_t:s0       root root 329 Jul 25
>> 13:30 /sbin/ifup-local
>>
>> Any hints what I may have wrong?
>
> Is your network setup managed by "network" service or NetworkManager? If
> later, I don't think it cares about these local scripts at all..
>
> If you are using "network", try to find out if it runs or not by putting
> something simple inside, like
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo "$@">  /tmp/ifup-local-test
>
> If you need NetworkManager, I don't think I can give any advice on how
> to make it work when NM manages network..

I knew there was a reason I didn't like NetworkManager. It seems it is
time to get it out of the picture entirely. If it ignores those files it
is extremely broken.

{^_^}