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From: geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: checking for ethernet at boot time
Message-ID: <1991May10.043829.14766@ITcorp.com>
Date: 10 May 91 04:38:29 GMT
References: <1991May8.151325.20226@bethel.edu>
Distribution: comp.sys.next
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In article <1991May8.151325.20226@bethel.edu> gossett@bethel.edu (Eric
Gossett) writes:

> I move my NextStation between two locations.  One location is on an ethernet,
> the other is a stand-alone setup.  I would like to run some mounts in rc.local
> if I am attached to the ethernet, but not do the mounts if I am stand-alone.
> How can I check at boot time to see if I am attached to the ethernet?

In 2.0, look in /etc/rc for the variable NETWORKUP, which is set to
either "-YES-" or "-NO-" (a horrible choice of strings, since it can
confuse "test" but that's not my problem).  Simply modify /etc/rc to
export this variable, and then you can test it in /etc/rc.local.
/etc/rc has lots of examples of how to do this.
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   uunet!desint!geoff