Kevin Kofler wrote: > Roberto Ragusa wrote: >> I need to change firewalls rules and routing rules in the middle of the >> init scripts, because I have a multihomed internet connection and remote >> filesystems and I need the firewall closed and then opened in a way which >> is dependent on the IP I got from the ISP > Ugh! Are you sure there's no better solution?! Kevin, this is not an exactly real scenario, but I wanted to say that sometimes it is useful to *hack* something in the middle of the init script for some reason. I know that no "sleep 5" should be there to wait for the firmware of the ADSL modem and so on... what I'm trying to say is that in some cases you need to do something dirty to work around a bug or to confirm a bug. For example, I had really bad luck with the rt2500 driver having weird crashes with the ordering and relative timing of "modprobe", "ifconfig up", "iwconfig". Understanding what the hell was happening during boot (and only during boot) made me add strange hacks into the scripts so to be able to describe the bug. -- Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
