Hi Hans, On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 01:56:14AM +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote: > Package: zeroconf > Version: 0.6-1 > Severity: wishlist > > > It would be very nice if one could add a DISABLE_ZEROCONF=yes switch > or something similar to /etc/default/zeroconf.
Why would you diable it completely? Why not just blacklist the particular interface you are having problems with? > This could come in quite handy in cases where something goes wrong > with zeroconf. > > The example leading me to this idea is a little confused, but I'm > describing it here for reference purposes anyway. > > I've just experienced a case of a system hanging indefinitely at > "ifup -a" time while booting, which was caused by this old I'm aware of why that occurs and I hope to have that fixed in zeroconf 0.7 > /etc/network/if-up.d/zeroconf script: > > ,---- > |#!/bin/sh > | > |/usr/sbin/zeroconf -i $IFACE > `---- > > which probably some older package had left lying around. > > Having no clean way to disable zeroconf, I resorted to > "dpkg --purge zeroconf", which then, incidentally, didn't remove the > /etc/network/if-up.d/zeroconf script. But that was ok - at least > "ifup -a" was failing now, not hanging. Hmm - okay, so for the 'upgrade' from zeorconf 0.3 to zeroconf 0.6 since it was only in testing, I just modified the names of the files rather than doing a 'clean' upgrade. I would recommend you 'dpkg -P zeroconf' and ensure that no trace of the if-up script remains in /etc/network/if-up.d/; then re-install it. > Hmm... perhaps "ifup -a" should use a timeout, but that would be > a seperate wishlist bug, I think. Interesting idea - definitely worth putting a bugreport on. Cheers, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
