[ltp] Detecting a kernel message

[Dr. Aldo Medina]

Thanks for your help. I already made some scripts which do the route and
ifconfig stuff for me, and patched /etc/network.options with them. All I
have to do is a cardctl scheme command to change my network
configuration. However my problem is in programming. I simply don't know
perl, and I haven't been able to use bash to parse /var/log/messages.

Tod Harter wrote:
> 
> I've never heard of a network card being damaged by connecting or
> disconnecting the cable while the machine was powered. I would say from
> experience that its fine. Voltages on ethernet are very low and use very
> little current.
> 
> I must say that your problems echo my own. I've found that with my A20p that
> the built in NIC becomes confused when I unhook from the network and then
> suspend. Afterwards I have to reboot to get back on the LAN. Someone said
> this has to do with APM scripts.
> 
> All I do is when I want to use the modem is I manually issue "ifconfig eth0
> down" and then dial in. Generally I find that the ppp setup system forgets to
> provide a default route though, which means you have to issue "route add
> default gw <ip-addr-of-ppp0>" by hand. Even though I created a couple of
> configs using Mandrake's Drakconf tool it still doesn't happen on its own.
> Personally I've yet to see any of these tools do it properly. The ppp
> subsystem never really properly cleans up the resolve.conf file either, it
> just grows full of "temporary settings" for name service, which you have to
> clean out every so often...
> 
> My general opinion of all these configuration tools is that none of them
> really works all that well. There are way too many different ones and they
> all seem half broken. Linuxconf does some things ok but other things it is
> totally broken for, and the same goes for chkconfig, ntsysv, webmin, etc.
> Frankly my answer is to figure out what commands need to be issued for
> various situations, write a script that does it, make it suid root, and just
> run it from a shell at the appropriate time.
> 
> As for monitoring the link beat, I guess you could write a little perl script
> that piped a "tail -f /var/log/messages" and scanned it for what you are
> interested in you could dynamically reconfigure. It just wasn't worth the
> trouble to me.
> 
> I know this is a bit wordy, and partly a tangent to your question, but if
> there is one MAJOR place in which linux falls down flat it is just this sort
> of thing. Windows may be annoying as heck, but generally speaking it does a
> much better job of making routine changes like this easy to do. I feel that
> if Linux is to succeed as an end-user platform a LOT more attention needs to
> be paid to this kind of issue. The tools that are out there seem partial,
> badly documented, often broken, and to be quite frank more trouble than they
> are worth. Linux badly needs a single common configuration system that all
> distributions can adhere to. Until that happens only serious bitheads are
> going to be able to use it, and there are many times when I resent the amount
> of effort required to accomplish simple tasks like driver installs and just
> plain routine configuration tasks. The situation is a really nasty mess!
> 
> On Friday 14 September 2001 14:25, you wrote:
> > I'm own a thinkpad 380ED with a 3com LAN/Modem PCMCIA card. I use this
> > laptop in my work (connecting to the LAN), and working at home (Modem).
> > I know about divine and other programs who configure my networking
> > options at boot time, but I was looking for some way to make the changes
> > "in the fly". That is: working at work, hibernating, then going home and
> > just turn on my computer. I already defined two schemes for this needs
> > (cardctl scheme modem and cardctl scheme net).
> >
> > However, I was thinking if its possible to monitor kern.info messages,
> > looking for the "lost link beat" and "found link beat" messages, so some
> > script could run in the background and change schemes for me.
> >
> > Is this possible?
> > Is this safe (removing and inserting the RJ45 cable without turning off
> > the card, but when there isn't any traffic)?
> >
> > TIA

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