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[nealbirch <nealbirch AT attbi.com>]

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.

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