On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 08:45 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 09:48:11 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: > ... > > > No relief from the nightmare I am afraid ... > > Why is this nightmare anything to do with Gentoo? If you connect to > networks that require manual configuration, you have to configure > manually. At least the functions in conf.d/net allow you to automate a > substantial part of the process. > > Take a close look at /etc/conf.d/net.example, I think you'll find it can > do most, if not all, of what you want. > > The nightmare is that gentoo will only handle a small subset of the networks I need to connect to at any one time (i.e., I cant configure all the networks in the one set of config files - see my original post for the permutations). I cant see that gentoo's method will allow me to handle all the permutations without having scripts to reconfigure it at each site by copying in new files and restarting services/vpn's and athentications depending on what is required at each site. The reason I posted this originally is that the above process keeping separate configs has been working for years (inc. when I was using Mandrake) and I am happy to keep doing that - however something in gentoo's latest baselayout breaks things like zebedee and openvpn (flakey on start/stop) in this scenario.
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