What about ifwatchd?  Anyone know if it could be leveraged for
manipulating the network card when the system's suspending or waking?

-Jimi

Jimi Malcolm (Wed@1200)
> Check out onlogdo by Ben Wong:
> 
> http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bbb/2001/onlogdo
> 
> It's a daemon that watches a log file and runs commands based on if it
> sees certain events.  Here's an example from the web page where it
> watches /var/log/messages for the insertion and ejection of your NIC and
> runs dhclient appropriately.  You can probably do it for suspend;
> however, I'm not sure if it'll have the time to execute taking down the
> NIC before the device actually suspends.  Is there a way to slow down
> the suspend sequence by a second or two?
> 
> $ onlogdo /var/log/messages \
>        'ep0 at pcmcia' '/etc/rc.d/dhclient start' \
>        'ep0 detached'  '/etc/rc.d/dhclient stop'  \
>        'wi0 at pcmcia' '/etc/rc.d/dhclient start' \
>        'wi0 detached'  '/etc/rc.d/dhclient stop'
> 
> 
> Mattias Sandstrom (Wed@1056)
> > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:
> > >>>is there any way to shut down a network card without root 
> > >>>privileges?
> > >
> > >would sudo do the job for you?
> > 
> > sort of, better than nothing. i'll install it and see what i think. 
> > thanks. having a daemon listening to the hpcapm device and calling a 
> > script automatically when an event occurs would be better though. so 
> > again, how does hpcapm communicate with the world? is it just the 
> > console output? can i capture that somehow?
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > 	/matt
> 
> -- 
> Jimi

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Jimi