[Gllug] Re: Gllug Digest, Vol 20, Issue 33

[David Abbishaw]

I know what you mean, ive been writing some setup scripts for Suse ES 8
which uses a simular /etc/sysconfig/network to redhat and been struggling
to find any documentation and unfortunatly (possibly fortunatly) dont have
any access to the source (yes Im sure i could find it but the distrivution
I have to work with is a canned up version used internally to the company
and we dont get the source - not even the kernel source) so when we
discover that rbash is bust or that we dont have the right kernel for
VMware ESX tools were screwed.  If I could read the source I *might* find
out what its for but only if the source is documented. :(



Any how I discoved that all thats needed is the following

BOOTPROTO='static'
IPADDR='xx.xx.xx.xx'
NETMASK='255.255.254.0'
STARTMODE='onboot'
UNIQUE='VCu0.W2CmOjo5laA'
device='eth0'

BUT Im still missing the documentation for what the UNIQUE is allabout, in
the end I have my script generate a random value that gets put here and Im
done, but I really want to know what its about.

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:43:45 +0000
> From: Bruce Richardson <itsbruce at uklinux.net>
> Subject: Re: [Gllug] Sluggishness and confusion
> To: Greater London Linux User Group <gllug at gllug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <20050209194345.GC21741 at phaistos.bruce>
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> On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 06:30:14PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
>> Really? If RH/Fedora is a mess, then maybe I should take another look at
>> Debian[1], because I find it to be simple, intuitive and well thought
>> out.
>> Yes, there are a few expections to that, but on the whole I've been very
>> impressed with it. Debian must be truly outstanding if it makes that
>> look
>> like a mess...
>
> To take a specific example, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is a damn
> mess and poorly considered.  I'll take Debian's interfaces file (and the
> associated scripts) over that any day of the month.  For instance, if I
> want to add some extra actions when an interface is brought up or down
> on Debian I can set this up all in the interfaces file:
>
> iface inet eth0 static
> 	address x.x.x.x
> 	netmask x.x.x.x
> 	broadcast x.x.x.x
> 	pre-up /usr/local/sbin/action-before-up
> 	up /usr/local/sbin/action-on-up
> 	down /usr/local/sbin/action-on-down
> 	post-down /usr/local/sbin/action-on-down
>
>
> Now, with Red Hat or Fedora I first have to read through all the many
> scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, because much of it (including
> what I want to do here) just isn't documented at all (and documentation
> that keeps saying "Do not edit these config files, please use the GUI
> tools" does not fill me with admiration).  After digging, I'll discover
> that I have to create /sbin/ifup-local, /sbin/ifup-pre-local,
> /sbin/ifdown-local and /sbin/ifdown-pre-local.  Each of these scripts
> will have to parse the (mostly undocumented) parameters that the
> network-scripts pass around, to work out which interface is being
> changed.  And after all that I still have to create my own method for
> associating actions with specific interfaces (funnily enough, just
> re-editing the /sbin/if* scripts isn't what I call a good solution).
>
> I call that shit.  I really do.  And this isn't some obscure nit I'm
> picking; adding custom actions to interface up/down events is a fairly
> common requirement in a network of any scale and complexity.
>
> --
> Bruce
>
> I see a mouse.  Where?  There, on the stair.  And its clumsy wooden
> footwear makes it easy to trap and kill.  -- Harry Hill
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