Auto(re)starting network dependant services

[padde]

Hi there,

this is something that bugs me for quite some time, I hope anybody here can clear that up

In Gentoo we have those wonderful init scripts with dependencies. For example sshd depends on net, dnsmasq depends on net, and so on.
Now, the problem I'm having is the following: If an interface goes down (for example I stop net.wlan because I go out of range with my laptop), or isn't being started at all (because the wireless network is not in range while i boot my laptop), those services depending on net won't be started, if I start up net.wlan later on.
What I would like (and I'm sure it's possible somehow, I just don't see it...), are some kind of reverse dependencies that say: If the net is up (no matter which interface, net.lan or net.wlan), also take care that the services depending on it (dnsmasq, sshd, pure-ftpd, ...) are started.

That's it... quite simple, but I don't get how to accomplish it

Cheers,
Padde.

[PaulBredbury]

Put in /etc/conf.d/rc

[padde]

[PaulBredbury]

/sbin/rc might be what you want.