system-autodeath

[Arthur Pemberton]

On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 3:43 PM, Stephen Warren
<s-t-rhbugzilla at wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:29:46AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
>> A while back I mentioned a system-autodeath idea for fedora. For some
>> reason I had neglected it but this evening I put it together. If you
>> take a look it is utterly trivial and just uses cron to kill the
> default
>> route. I'm sure there are limitless ways this will not be perfect but
> I
>> think it will probably be good enough.
>>
>> http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/system-autodeath/
>>
>> If you can come up with any way it is broken, let me know, otherwise
>> I'll probably submit it for review.
>
> I forget from previous conversations - Is this intended to be part of a
> default install - i.e. whether somebody asks for it or not? If so, it
> seems broken by design to me.
>
> This and the ignore-everyone-not-using-ATI-or-Intel text
> console/modesetting thing is really making me seriously consider switching
> distros.
>
> I haven't actually looked at the implementation yet, but does it interact
> correctly with dhcp, NetworkManager, wifiroamd, etc. (i.e. stop those
> services from simply restoring the default route immediately.)


Seems like you need a lot more info before you express any strong view.


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