On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:17 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote: > I also haven't figured out *how* the "net" dependency is provided. The > postfix iniscript explicitely contains "provide mta", but very few > scripts use this provide keyword, especially not net.* > On my previous SuSE system, if I went someplace networked with the > machine running already, I used to say "ifup-dhcp eth0", and I could mail > and ssh into the laptop without any further ado. I suppose I could do the > same with Gentoo's runlevels which I haven't explored yet, but it still > doesn't solve the problem that I can't have postfix running and queueing > messages I send while offline so they can be delivered once I plug in > somewhere.
See RC_NET_STRICT_CHECKING in /etc/conf.d/rc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list