Painfull Evolution and network things

[Karl Hegbloom]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 13:04 +0800, Senectus . wrote:
> When I take my laptop to work I have to do the following every day :
> root at a31ptp:/ # killall -9 evolution-exchange-storage
> root at a31ptp:/ # killall -9 evolution-alarm-notify
> root at a31ptp:/ # killall -9 evolution-data-server-1.0

I can't help with that one.

> root at a31ptp:/ # ifconfig eth1 down
> root at a31ptp:/ # ifconfig eth1 up
> root at a31ptp:/ # ip route add default via 172.24.192.5 metric 0
> 
> The first three are because Evolution and the exchange plug-in has
> just gone to hell for some reason (The hard drive goes berserk until I
> run those commands.. the laptop runs like a dog until I do it.)
> the next three are because I want to use a gateway different to the
> DHCP default when ever I'm on this network.. Is there any way to
> automate the second or have it add it on its own when it picks up a
> DHCP address from this specific range?

You could put a shell script in /etc/network/if-up.d that does what you
want.  RTFM "man interfaces" and "man ifup".

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