[3294] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Athena Disconnected Operation White Paper Draft 2.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Fri May 24 19:09:19 2002
To: tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Cc: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>, source-developers@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 24 May 2002 19:09:16 -0400
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tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:
> Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
> > The problem is that while Red Hat can get daemon services to start and
> > stop with the network going up and down, it is done within the system
> > environment, under root's ID. In particular the current system does
> > NOT deal with refreshing the user environment (kerberos tickets,
> > zephyr, etc). The goal of my project is to both hook Athena services
> > into the standard scripts, but also provide a means to enable
> > autoamated refresh of the user environment.
>
> Of course, any scheme would be to create new scripts. The system in
> use on Debian has a directory of scripts; doesn't Red Hat have the
> same? Those scripts can do anything you like...
As far as I can tell, Red Hat does not have a directory of scripts for
network events. It does have a directory for startup, shutdown, and
APM (suspend/hibernate/re-animate/resume) events. The issue remains,
however, that all of those scripts are executed in root's environment,
not the user's environment. We need a way to execute scripts in the
user's environment, and such a system does not exist.
-derek
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