Netcfg openbox menu

I've started tweaking my openbox box and the first thing to do was a simple script to run netcfg from openbox menu. You can grab it here: http://gist.github.com/160147. It can only activate an inactive profile or deactivate an active one (it's enough for me).
And I've encountered a strange issue. You may notice that I use xterm for desplaying netcfg output and in case of success xterm waits for 2 seconds to close. Without that after putting the profile down from menu subsequent calls to netcfg may claim that the corresponding interface is busy and fail. Even with that delay often subsequent calls to netcfg will complain of the interface being busy but will succeed. So, what am I doing wrong? What is the safe way to run netcfg in my case?

Well, I hope, that was not my fault: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=596519
UPD: Still, I should try something like
bash -c ". /usr/lib/network/network; . /etc/rc.d/functions; profile_up ...
UPD: Just the same issue with the above command. And netcfg-tray often hangs the interface too.
Last edited by Mr.Cat (2009-08-06 23:04:26)

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