Bug 75572 – nameif fails but exits with zero code

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Bug 75572 - nameif fails but exits with zero code

Summary:	nameif fails but exits with zero code

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	net-tools (Show other bugs)
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Version:	8.0
Hardware:	i686 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Phil Knirsch
QA Contact:	Ben Levenson
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Reported:	2002-10-09 18:25 EDT by diego.santacruz
Modified:	2015-03-04 20:11 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-04-20 08:33:18 EDT
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Description diego.santacruz 2002-10-09 18:25:27 EDT

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809

Description of problem:
If nameif is given a MAC address that does not match any present interface it
will fail but exit with a zero code

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
net-tools-1.60-7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. put a network card with say MAC address 00:10:a4:04:5d:25
2. do 'nameif 00:01:02:03:04:05 eth2' (note non-present MAC address)
3.
	

Actual Results:  nameif fails (as it should) but the exit code is zero.
In addition the message is misleading (interface 'eth2' not found)

Expected Results:  Fail and exit with a non-zero code.
Print a sane error message (MAC address '00:01:02:03:04:05' not found)

Additional info:

This bug affects the ifup script. See bug #75570

Comment 1 James Pattie 2003-05-06 12:55:40 EDT

According to the command you specified, you are trying to specify the
"interface" to be the mac address you specified.

nameif -h gives:

usage: nameif [-c configurationfile] [-s] {ifname macaddress}

Comment 2 Phil Knirsch 2004-04-20 08:33:18 EDT

nameif returns an error when a "real" error has happend. Specifying an
interface/MAC address that doesn't exist doesn't count as an error but
as a misconfiguration, so no error is reported.

Read ya, Phil

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