Hi Thomas, thx for your answer.
[...] >And update of NM shouldn't change behavior for you. Can you detail what >causes the breaking? I'm not sure, I just noticed a few days ago, that my script doesn't work any more and that I don't get a DeviceAdd signal any more. To answer your last question about what I want to achieve: I want to run certain GUI programs depending on certain network connections coming up or going down. So I wrote a perl script around the Net::DBus module. This script gets started via KDE autostart and waits for signals telling it what is going on regarding network connections. [...] >/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Devices/* is different from >/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/* is different from >/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Settings/* I know, but I don't know how to bring the bits and pieces together. When I started scripting, I thought that I'd need the DeviceAdd and DeviceRemoved signals to achieve my goal, but in the meantime I begin to understand, that I have to wait for connections coming up. I didn't find an appropriate example, though. >An ActiveConnection connects the connection profile with the networking >device, while the profile is activated on a device.. >DeviceAdded/DeviceRemove notifies you about devices. A PropertyChanged >signal for property ActiveConnections, notifies you about a change in >the list of all active connections (which is add or removal). So how do I find out, that the PropertyChanged signal comes from a network connection coming up or going down? >VPN connections for NetworkManager are a bit wired. VPN connections are >a subclass of active connections. >If you have a tun/tap based VPN (like OpenVPN), then the VPN's device >is not the tun/tap device, but instead the device with the default >route. As you see with `nmcli device`. No, there isn't a device, though I'm quite sure it was in earlier versions of NetworkManager (or perhaps strongswan). >You don't say what you want to do, but usually you need to look at one >or more D-Bus objects and their state. >You would look at the presence and state of the active-connection (or >VPN connection), in addition to the state of the device. However, as >said, in case of VPNs, the device is not what you might expect it is. Do I need to check for devices at all? >See the D-Bus API documentation: > https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/stable/spec.html Yes, this is my main source, but I don't understand everything described there 8-< >best, >Thomas Bye. Michael. -- Michael Hirmke _______________________________________________ networkmanager-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
