On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 09:27:16AM -0400, Colin Walters wrote: > Incidentally, it shouldn't be all that hard to get the http proxy from > DHCP into userspace. dhclient seems to write out the configuration > into /var/lib/dhcp/dhclient-ethX.leases. At worst you could have a > little post-DHCP script that does "grep http-proxy", and then something > like: > dbus-send --system --signal com.redhat.Network.DHCP.HttpProxy string:$(proxy) The dhcp client already runs scripts on various events like network down and address change. Right now we unfortunately don't do much with that functionality. > Then NetworkManager could listen for this signal and set the GConf key. > Then all applications which use GConf would dynamically pick up the > change. Yes
