Bug 5760

Summary:	/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-alias prints horrible messages if you compile a kernel without ip aliasing support
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Hunter, Sean <sean>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	rvokal
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Description Hunter, Sean 1999-10-09 07:59:13 UTC

As above.  This patch fixes it:

--- /tmp/ifup-aliases	Sat Oct  9 08:52:10 1999
+++ ifup-aliases	Sat Aug 28 18:15:38 1999
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/sh

+if [ ! -f /proc/sys/net/core/net_alias_max ]; then
+    exit 0
+fi

 # adds aliases of device $1

 if [ "$1" = "" ]; then

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-10-10 04:28:59 UTC

The messages are because linuxconf's alias detection is
fairly broken; it's worked around by commenting out the linuxconf
specific portions. This is what's done in 6.1.

However, the workaround you suggest is probably a good idea - we'll look at that for a future initscripts release.