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yuvadm

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From: Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel

Registered: 2012-08-08

Posts: 102

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netctl pre/post hooks

I'm going over the iPhone bluetooth tethering section on the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/IP … ing#netcfg and updating it to work with netctl.

All the parts are working, I'm just not sure how I can call pre/post connection hooks from netctl, they are not documented anywhere.

Any idea how I can go about this? This is requried since calls to bluez must be made to connect and disconnect from the BT device prior to setting up the network interface.

rsmarples

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Registered: 2009-05-12

Posts: 287

Re: netctl pre/post hooks

Does the interface actually exist before calling bluez? If so, you can do it from a dhcpcd hook - man dhcpcd-run-hooks for details about how to hook into the PREINIT event

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

Posts: 1,489

Re: netctl pre/post hooks

Pre/Post expressions analogue to netcfg don't exist. If the interface exists, you can put an action similar to what rsmarples has written for dhcpcd into '/etc/netctl/interfaces/'. 
Even if the interface does not exist, you should be able to bring it up/down with a hook in '/etc/netctl/hooks/' (man netctl.profile).
Example: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 7#p1304367