Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > Hi, > > I run Etch on a laptop and cardmgr to configure the PCMCIA ethernet > card. fetchmail is started before the ethernet interface is up, so I > figured that I had to either start or simply awaken it *after* the interface > was up, placing a script in /etc/network/if-post-up.d/. > > I noticed that /etc/network/if-post-up.d/ didn't exist, so I created it > and placed a script named 'fetchmail' there. However, the script is not > executed when the interface is brought up. /etc/network/interfaces is > then: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > > If I change /etc/network/interfaces to: > > iface eth0 inet dhcp > post-up /etc/network/if-post-up.d/fetchmail > > then the script is executed. > > google 'if-post-up.d' didn't bring anything relevant. > > I noticed that scripts placed in the other /etc/network subdirectories > > if-down.d > if-post-down.d > if-pre-up.d > if-up.d > > are executed. I also noticed that if-pre-down.d doesn't exist. > > Does anybody know if something else needs to be configured so that ifup > correctly executes scripts in /etc/network/if-post-up.d ? > > Thanks > Paulo > >
if-up.d is treated as if-post-up.d. `run-parts /etc/network/if-up.d` is run after the interface is brought up. I don't know about if-pre-down.d though
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