Re: [Cooker] pinit startup scripts

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2007-01-16 at 15:02 +0100, Guillaume Rousse wrote:
> Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> > I've developped something that has a startup script that depends on network.
> > looking at the /var/log/prcsys.log my script is correctly started after 
> > network, unfortunately, due to slow dhcp response, eventhough the network is 
> > started, I have no IP address yet when my startup scripts starts. Thus I have 
> > a temporary name lookup failure.
> > 
> > Is there a clean  way (avoiding active waiting loop) to start my script only 
> > if network is up and IP addresse is there and routes are setup?
> If you just need network, use $network facility. If you need name
> resolution, use $named facility.

So for e.g. ntpd should be requiring $named rather than $network ? It
requires name resolution to find the servers to sync with...
-- 
adamw