severity 432612 wishlist
merge 432612 204499
thanks
On 07/10/17 17:55 +1000, Vincent McIntyre said ...
> it would be helpful to me also to have ifplugd working earlier in the
> boot, so that a machine that wants to ypbind can do that:
>
> % ls /etc/rc2.d/*{nis,ifplugd}*
> /etc/rc2.d/S19nis /etc/rc2.d/S20ifplugd
>
> It's helpful to have ifplugd because if the machine is unplugged then
> there is no attempt to start NIS (and no long wait for a timeout...)If we start ifplugd earlier, this problem won't really be solved. When the cable is pulled out, NIS/avahi will stop functioning again. All the services like this (on an interface handled by ifplugd) must be started from /etc/network/ifup.d/ and stopped in /etc/network/ifdown.d/. Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/
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