Bug 17388 – ifup-ppp: DEVNAME/DEVICE confusion

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Bug 17388 - ifup-ppp: DEVNAME/DEVICE confusion

Summary:	ifup-ppp: DEVNAME/DEVICE confusion

Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.2
Hardware:	i386 Linux

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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Blocks:	17389
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Reported:	2000-09-09 18:56 EDT by Aleksey Nogin
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:16 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2000-10-02 18:08:17 EDT
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2000-09-09 18:56:37 EDT

For some strange reason, ifup-ppp in initscripts-5.00 first insists on 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$DEVICE being present, but then does
the following:

if [ -z "$WVDIALSECT" ] ; then
  CHATSCRIPT=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$DEVNAME
  [ -f $CHATSCRIPT ] || {
    CHATSCRIPT=/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/chat-$PARENTDEVNAME
  }
else
...

Most parts of the initscripts package are OK with ifcfg-xxx containing
DEVICE=yyy (with xxx and yyy being completely unrelated and yyy being the
"real" device name - eth0, ppp0, etc), but not PPP.

The reason I want to do this is to be able to bring ppp0 up using "ifup
<ISP name>" and have several ifcfg files for different ISPs with
DEVICE=ppp0 in all of them.

Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2000-09-09 19:07:21 EDT

See bug 17389 for a fix.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2001-01-30 13:45:51 EST

Will be in initscripts-5.60-1.

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