Bug 2076 – /sbin/ifup doesn't recognise interface initialisation failure

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Bug 2076 - /sbin/ifup doesn't recognise interface initialisation failure

Summary:	/sbin/ifup doesn't recognise interface initialisation failure

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	initscripts (Show other bugs)
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Version:	6.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	1999-04-08 21:26 EDT by Sittampalam, Ganesh
Modified:	2008-05-01 11:37 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-04-09 10:26:18 EDT
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Description Sittampalam, Ganesh 1999-04-08 21:26:38 EDT

The /sbin/ifup script contains this line to detect whether
an interface works:
/sbin/ifconfig ${REALDEVICE} 2>&1 | grep -s "unknown
interface" > /dev/null

The current version of ifconfig doesn't return a line with
"unknown interface" in it if an interface fails to
initialise, so this isn't very helpful.

------- Email Received From  "Ganesh Sittampalam,Computing Laboratory,83512,86765" <ganesh.sittampalam@magd.ox.ac.uk> 04/08/99 21:30 -------

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-09 10:26:59 EDT

this has been fixed in initscripts-4.01-2.

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