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..

-- 

Vladimir