Bug 1205330

I already have patches that use `ss` to enumerate sockets and if it is not available, falls back to netstat.

I'll submit them later.

Created attachment 1014897 [details]
Implement fallback to netstat in case ss is missing

Fix for bug

Does that really solve the reported problem? If there is no netstat binary, how does fallback to netstat help? Am I missing something?

Solution of this bug would be to add either net-tools or iproute rpm dependency. If we decide to add one of them I would go for iproute. However I would like to avoid it at all if there is a possibility to get those information from /proc or /sys.

*** Bug 1208586 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

on RHEL4, 5 and 6 netstat is installed by default, on RHEL 7 ss is installed by default, IIRC the same situation is on Fedora, for our purposes it fixes the issue

parsing /proc or /sys would be really ugly

that being said, a dependency on "iproute _or_ net-tools" would be good, dunno if rpm supports that...

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

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Dalibor, can we get some decision on this?

This buggy code is rather irritating, especially given that the fix is so simple.

I'm very much against reimplementing netstat or ss in bash - it's reinventing the wheel, poorly at that. So either remove this functionality, so that we can create a library that implements this or merge this patch.

Sorry the bug was a bit out of sight because it has got wrong status.
I though about it again and I think the patch is ok but it needs to be extended by specifying the requirement in rpm. It would be net-tools for RHEL5 and iproute for RHEL6 and newer and Fedora.

I am assigning the bug back to me so I have it as reminder for adding the requirements.

I have rethought it and thinking of protocols support I just add net-tools and netstat is also capable of sctp.

Fixed by http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/beakerlib.git/commit/?id=bf63f0f0232ab20e65a128f298f3f8603d4e1cf1

beakerlib-1.11-1.el6 has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 6. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2015-f36ff57e84

beakerlib-1.11-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update beakerlib'
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-4c96e73472

beakerlib-1.11-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update beakerlib'
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beakerlib-1.11-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'dnf --enablerepo=updates-testing update beakerlib'
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beakerlib-1.11-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update beakerlib'
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beakerlib-1.11-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update beakerlib'
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beakerlib-1.11-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
If you want to test the update, you can install it with
$ su -c 'yum --enablerepo=epel-testing update beakerlib'
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Seems to be working OK - TJ#1138144

beakerlib-1.11-1.fc23 has been pushed to the Fedora 23 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

beakerlib-1.11-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

beakerlib-1.11-1.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

beakerlib-1.11-1.fc21 has been pushed to the Fedora 21 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

beakerlib-1.11-1.el7 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

beakerlib-1.11-1.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.