I installed a fresh 2004.1 and this is what I got: /etc/ppp/ip-up has the following contents: ------------------------------------------------------------ #!/bin/sh [ -f /etc/ppp/ip-up.local ] && . /etc/ppp/ip-up.local [ -f /etc/ppp/ip-down.local ] && . /etc/ppp/ip-down.local ------------------------------------------------------------ so if ip-up is called, ip-up.local AND ip-down.local are executed! ONLY ip-up.local should be executed! Since ip-down is a symlink to ip-up this is true for ip-down as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install Gentoo 2004.1 (or earlier?) 2. look in /etc/ppp/ip-up 3. think about it. Actual Results: When ip-up is called, ip-down.local is executed. When ip-down is called, ip-up.local is executed. Expected Results: When ip-up is called, ip-down.local is not executed. When ip-down is called, ip-up.local is not executed. To resolve this issue, change /etc/ppp/ip-up to: --------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh [ -f /etc/ppp/${0##*/}.local ] && . /etc/ppp/${0##*/}.local --------------------------------------------------------------- to make sure a script in /etc/ppp gets executed, or: --------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh [ -f $0.local ] && . $0.local ---------------------------------------------------------------
*** Bug 52225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Not entirely related, but the ip-up script also contains a reference to /etc/init.d/firewall. Gentoo, however, does not have a "firewall" script.
At the present moment, ppp-2.4.1 ebuilds have ip-up/ip-down scripts filled with comments. On the other hand, ppp-2.4.2*.ebuild have rather strange scripts. In addition to what Georgi has said at comment #2, these scripts launch other scripts (if these scripts exists) named $0.local. If someone need to execute some special code on up/down event, seems pretty useless to create another script located in the same directory with the callee script, when it is easier to modify ip-up/ip-down directly.
it's not useless to call them, since it's easier to merge user changes on etc-update then, the other issue is fixed in ppp-2.4.2-r*
