Directory-based client configuration

[Kenneth Porter]

--On Sunday, December 07, 2003 10:08 PM -0500 Michael Richardson 
<mcr at sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

>     Kenneth> place. Isn't the resolv.conf and ntp.conf code wholly-owned
> by     Kenneth> the DHCP
>     Kenneth> package right now? Factoring these into separate scripts also
>     Kenneth> allows them
>
>   Absolutely not.
>   Not only does DHCP not own them, but ppp's "ip-up" has legitimate
> reason to edit them, as do all of the *distro* and OS specific system
> admin packages.

Are we talking at cross-purposes? I was referring to the code within 
dhclient-script that edits the config files, and that I'm proposing 
separating into distinct scripts. Not the config files themselves.

What I was proposing was to take the resolv.conf-editing code from 
dhclient-script and move it to /etc/dhclient.d/resolv.conf (or other 
reasonable name) and make that script part of a subpackage that a distro 
can choose to replace. Similarly, the ntpd.conf rewriter can be replaced 
with a file supplied by the ntpd package.

dhclient-script then becomes little more than a loop that executes each 
script in /etc/dhclient.d, similar to run-parts (which I posted recently).