From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 18:36:32 -0500 From: erik cameron To: Martin Costabel Cc: Stephen Travis Pope , linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: LinuxPPC equivalent of LocationManager ??? Message-ID: <19990923183632.L11547@senta.uchicago.edu> References: <37EA6709.DAD02422@cornell.edu> <37EA898C.4DD42F70@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <37EA898C.4DD42F70@wanadoo.fr> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: in my experience, the best way to do this is to just write a quick and dirty shell script to take care of network setup; maybe that's the solaris admin in me talking... :) it just seems that the required parameters are simple enough, and linuxconf is screwy enough, that it winds up being easier to roll your own. and the same script can run all of your configurations, and prompt you at boot, etc... just my $0.02. And yeah, if I had a copy of the scripts i've written, I'd attatch them, but alas, I suck. :| -e On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 10:11:56PM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > > Stephen Travis Pope wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I use LinuxPPC on a Lombard/Bronze PowerBook and *love* it. I also move > > between several sites (home, office, campus, etc.) and (in the Mac > > world) have several LocationManager setups for networking (PPP vs. > > 10BaseT connection, different IP addresses, domains, name servers, > > etc.). > > > > Does anyone have a set of scripts for managing multiple sets of /etc/* > > config files for simulating LocationManager on LinuxPPC??? > > There is the possibility to define different profiles in linuxconf. I > haven't tested this, and I haven't heard from anyone that has. Mostly > linuxconf haters online lately.. > > -- > Martin -- erik cameron unix systems administrator jfi/mrsec @ the university of chicago e-cameron@uchicago.edu ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/