Hi Sonia, On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:49:41AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > * what's the best way *in general* to handle changing network related > settings on a laptop? At the moment I'm just writing scripts that are > called from cron that detect which n/w I'm on and adjust things. For > example, for postfix I do stuff like this: >
NetworkManager is by far the best way to manage jumping between different networks. The dispatcher allows you to hook into it and run events based on where you are. There's a reasonable look into how to do it at: http://www-inf.int-evry.fr/~olberger/weblog/2006/08/25/automatically-reconfigure-smtp-relays-in-exim-with-networkmanager-and-whereami/ Good luck! Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (Sydney Linux Users Group) http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ (linux.conf.au 2007) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
