Bug 5760 – /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-alias prints horrible messages if you compile a kernel without ip aliasing support

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Bug 5760 - /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-alias prints horrible messages if you compile a kernel without ip aliasing support

Summary:	/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-alias prints horrible messages if you com...

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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Assigned To:	Bill Nottingham
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Reported:	1999-10-09 03:59 EDT by Hunter, Sean
Modified:	2014-03-16 22:10 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	1999-10-10 00:28:51 EDT
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Description Hunter, Sean 1999-10-09 03:59:13 EDT

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 00:28:59 EDT

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.

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