NM - where are the docs?

[Tim]

On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 14:08 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I've no idea what NetworkManagerDispatcher is supposed to do,
> or what, if anything, should be in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ .

The dispatcher runs scripts when the network status changes, they're
passed the name of the interface and its status (e.g. "eth0 down").  I
have a script in there that stops/starts/restarts NTPD when my laptop
finds an interface (see below - the "logger" thing logs messages in
the /var/log/messages file if the program is there, else it just echos
responses somewhere).

I'd like better documentation, too.  The only useful stuff that I found
seemed to be what people had experimented around with.  Likewise for
power management scripts.

-- 
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---------------- example dispatcher script ---------------

#!/bin/bash

if [ -x /usr/bin/logger ]; then
        LOGGER="/usr/bin/logger -s -p user.notice -t NetworkManagerDispatcher"
else
        LOGGER=echo
fi

if [ ! -x /etc/init.d/ntpd ]; then
  $LOGGER "init script /etc/init.d/ntpd missing or not executible"
  return
fi
  
if [ -n $1 ] && [ $2 == "up" ]; then

  if [ -f /var/run/ntpd.pid ]; then
    $LOGGER "ntpd is running, restart"
    /sbin/service ntpd restart
  else
    $LOGGER "ntpd is not running, start"
    /sbin/service ntpd start
  fi

fi

if [ -n $1 ] && [ $2 == "down" ] && [ -f /var/run/ntpd.pid ]; then
  $LOGGER "ntpd is running, stop"
  /sbin/service ntpd stop
fi