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  • From: nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>
  • To: Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>
  • Cc: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] netconf.sh - a network configration tool
  • Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 04:53:00 -0500

Casey Harkins wrote:
I just threw this together today, looking for people to check it out and
give me some feedback.

This script provides a menu interface for managing the network device
files in /etc/sysconfig/network. This could replace the current network
device configuration stuff in the CONFIGURE script of the net-tools spell.
It could also be installed to allow users to modify their network
configuration without having to re-cast any spells.

If you want to play without screwing with your actual
/etc/sysconfig/network directory, just change the ROOTCHECK and NETDEVDIR
variables near the top of the script. Look for the comment labeled
"Testing Tips" which gives more details.

-casey





We changed something on you while you werent' watching in the NEW IMPROVED net-tools spell. For checking purposes, we re-named device files in /etc/sysconfig/network with the extension .dev, makes it easier to weed out trash and backups when we put the networking.sh back.

You can use something like this once the new net-tools is installed:

#!/bin/bash
netdevdir=/etc/sysconfig/network
devices=$(ls $netdevdir | grep dev$ | cut -d. -f1)
echo devices
# end bash code

which should echo the list of valid devices; drop the cut command to get the list of valid device files in /etc/sysconfig/network. "grep dev$" looks for files which end in .dev, so unless someone goes out of their way to screw this up and puts a file in there that ends in .dev and isn't a device, .txt files, files ending in ~ and so on won't interfere with what the networking.sh uses to process it's little self.

Good work Casey, I was going to rewrite net-tools to give one the option not to reinstall the net-tools if you just wanted to add a device file, but maybe we should think about adding an admin-tool to adjust things like this, using just bash and a few basic commands.

--
"You can fool some of the people all of the time
--and those are the ones you have to concentrate on!"
GW Bush-- from the N.Y. Times





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