From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18677 invoked by uid 1002); 9 Jun 2003 09:05:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29987 invoked from network); 9 Jun 2003 09:04:56 -0000 Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 05:27:26 +0100 From: Gontran Zepeda To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030607042726.GF1593@rythm.gontran.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <20030601032902.GA3769@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> <20030601055612.GA14530@cherenkov.orbis-terrarum.net> <20030531231311.027ad8ad.seemant@gentoo.org> <20030601124848.GA3456@gonzo.peterjohanson.com> <20030601125213.50136a59.xwred1@xwredwing.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030601125213.50136a59.xwred1@xwredwing.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: GNU/Linux 2.4.19-xfs-r2 X-Uptime: 05:07:15 up 10:34, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 X-GPG-Public-Key: https://www.gontran.net/pub/gontran-gpg-publik.key Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPv6 support in network initscripts X-Archives-Salt: e6bc4ef4-2369-4bcc-bfba-5ea5ee31206d X-Archives-Hash: d915e0056395a4c4c0f94ce215052d44 % On 2003-06-01 at 12:52:13 -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 08:49:14 -0400 > Peter Johanson wrote: > > > I've never seen anything which actually sources rc.conf and uses the > > PROTOCOL variable in any way. I have no idea why that's there. anybody > > enlighten me? > > # Set protocols to the protocols that you plan to use. Gentoo Linux will > # only enable module auto-loading for these protocols, eliminating annoying > # module not found errors. IIRC variables from rc.conf are made available in the environment of the running init.d scripts by /sbin/runscipt. ${PROTOCOL} _was_ used in the very early days to determine whether servers like xinetd were to be run with ipv6 support. Support for this seems to have been deprecated along with the system-wide use of daemontools, that good work and the original ipv6 integration having been done by A. Gottinger. It would be nicely consistent if you were to use this variable for determining when to initialize ipv6 interfaces and services in the init scripts, IMHO. -- Gontran -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list