> From: "Daniel Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > i'm using dhcpcd, so i don't know whether there is something analogous > > > i can do. > > > > There didn't seem to be, the last time I checked. Which is one of the > > reasons that I changed over to the dhclient package. > > hmmm, may be i should have a look at that ;-) > > > > that aside, the fact that users need to customize their systems for > > > something so basic via writing their own shell scripts (so everyone > > > has a different implementation) isn't a very good situation, imo. > > > > Well, I could see some advantages in there being a standard shell-script > > provided that did relevant things when the address of the machine > > changed. Maybe I should clean up my scripts and put them up somewhere... > > that would be appreciated. now if those scripts were to make it into > a debian package...
I know *I'd* certainly appreciate seeing 'em. It's so annoying to watch an ssh link politely remain "alive" (but useless) awaiting a link that can never return because the DHCP lease died and I get reassigned. * Heather Stern * star@ many places
