I don't think it is necessary to daemonise the backend as connection
to and disconnecting from a network is not something that is done
continuously. Therefore, in my humble opinion, running the backend on
request seems to be the best approach. This also avoids additional
complexity of requiring a dedicated init script. An SUID belonging to
root is enough for the backend to be allowed privileges automatically
whenever it is invoked. This means, the post installation script will
only need to "chmod u+s backend" and create a launcher on user
request.

I will now test an installation to /usr/bin of both backend and
frontend using an SUID for the backend. If everthing goes well, it
would mean, the time for an ALPHA release of a .deb package for
netman, is possible now.

I included more functionality in the frontend to recognise the
existence of an /etc/network/interfaces displaying and option to
connect to eth0 if that is found. I also included a compiler
conditional directive to compile the frontend so as to bypass the
requirement of sudo.

When I am ready, and I think the project can be package, I will upload
to git.devuan.org


Edward

On 26/08/2015, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag@???> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 02:27:57PM +0200, tilt! wrote:
>> On 08/26/2015 01:36 PM, Irrwahn wrote:
>> >[...]
>> >Or, even better, you could easily pass the IF name as an additional
>> >parameter to the backend (and possily even use it as additional component
>> >to construct the interface file names).
>>
>> An easy way to obtain a list of interface names on Linux is:
>>
>> awk 'NR>2{gsub(/:/,"");print $1}' /proc/net/dev
>
> Or "ls /sys/class/net".
> For listing non-loopback devices only, use
> ls -d /sys/class/net/*/device | cut -d/ -f5
>
> For wireless, check for the files "phy80211" or "wireless".
>
> The equivalent can be done trivially in C with readdir(); ask if you'd like
> an example.
>
> HTH,
> Isaac Dunham
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