* Re: [gentoo-dev] IPv6 support in network initscripts
@ 2003-06-07 4:27 99% ` Gontran Zepeda
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From: Gontran Zepeda @ 2003-06-07 4:27 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
% On 2003-06-01 at 12:52:13 -0700, Matt Thrailkill wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003 08:49:14 -0400
> Peter Johanson <latexer@gentoo.org> 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.
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