Marlon, you can manually edit the /etc/init.d/networking script to call whatever commands you like before bringing up the network interfaces.
Ugly and inelegant I know, but if the powers that be have decided for whatever reason to nuke the nice way of doing it, it's all we're left with. On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Alexander Sack <a...@ubuntu.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 02:16:41PM -0000, Marlon wrote: > > Since you are the maintainers of the distro is definitively your call on > > doing so but it would have been nice as I said in my previous post to > > have it documented on the release notes instead of just taking it out > > without warning. That said since you might be the authority of sorts on > > this issue where should a script be run if we want it to run before the > > network is up? i.e. iptables reload, mac address changing as someone > > else mentioned above, etc. > > > > If we can come up with a list of issues that are most pressing we > might check if there is a feasible way for special case solutions > rather than allowing all kind of up.d scripts. > > > - Alexander > > -- > NetworkManager does not call /etc/network/if-pre-up.d scripts > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336736 > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > > Status in “network-manager” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix > > Bug description: > Binary package hint: network-manager > > Ubuntu 8.10, Linux 2.6.27-12-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 5 09:26:35 UTC 2009 > i686 GNU/Linux > NetworkManager 0.7~~svn20081018t105859-0ubuntu1.8.10.1 > > I've been trying to get a script to trigger on the "pre-up" phase of > network configuration, however, NetworkManager doesn't seem to call it's > dispatcher for "pre-up" or "post-down" events. > > None of the scripts I put in /etc/network/if-pre-up.d ever got called, so I > added the following line to the top of the dispatcher script > "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/01ifupdown": > > logger -t $0 "called with $1 $2" > > Where $0 is the name of the script, $1 is the network interface and $2 is > the network event. > > After bringing some network connections up and down, I checked the logs, > and NetworkManager doesn't seem to be calling > "/etc/NetworkManager/dispatch.d/01ifupdown" for either "pre-up" or > "post-down" events. The only entries that show up are for "up" and "down" > events. > > According to the changelog both "pre-up" and "post-down" events are > supposed to be supported as of version 0.5.1-0ubuntu12: > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager > -- Joe Duncan PhD Program, Psychology Queen's University joe.rl.dun...@gmail.com (647)216-9135 -- NetworkManager does not call /etc/network/if-pre-up.d scripts https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/336736 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
