On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 03:49:16PM +0100, Zé Loff wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 08:36:07AM -0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 02, 2026 at 10:05:19AM +0200, dan wrote:
> > > As I would tranform all in an rc script the problem remains changing the
> > > prompt string from inside my test script..
> >
> > In the rc script, write the string that you want to a file, say
> > /etc/.net_status or something like that.
> >
> > Then set the shell prompt _in your .profile_ to read that file:
> >
> > export PS1="`cat /etc/.net_status`\$ "
> >
> > Even better, instead of just running the network status script from rc, run
> > it
> > every 1 or 2 minutes from the root crontab and update /etc/.net_status.
> >
>
> No need to reinvent the wheel, just use ifstated:
>
> net_up = '("netstat -fn | grep -qs default" every 5)'
>
> state auto {
> init {
> run "echo offline > /tmp/net_state"
> }
> if $online set-state online
> if $offline set-state offline
^^^^^^^^
Sorry for the typo: this should be $net_up and !$net_up
> }
>
> state online {
> init {
> run "echo online > /tmp/net_state"
> }
> if !$net_up set-state offline
> }
>
> state offline {
> init {
> run "echo offline > /tmp/net_state"
> }
> if $net_up set-state online
> }
>
> (this is actually an *untested* abridged version of a more complex
> config I use to also check whether my laptop is on the "home" network or
> roaming, and decide whether to mount/umount NFS shares, bring the
> wireguard interface up or down, etc)
>
> --
>
>
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