Subject: Re: /sbin/ifup
To: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <is@netbsd.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/29/2003 23:05:00
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Hello,

on Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:55:30PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote:
>=20
> I created a shell script, /sbin/ifup (yes, inspired from Linux - but usef=
ul)
> which reads an /etc/ifconfig.* file and performs the operations. I find it
> very useful to do this after editing /etc/ifconfig.*, better than running
> sh /etc/rc.d/network restart, if you are remote.. but not screwing with
> the interface you are depending upon.

Yes, I'm missing something like this. Plus a seperate function that=20
does this for all ifconfig.foo files.

> I edited the /etc/rc.d/network script to call /sbin/ifup instead of=20
> doing things itself - the code is just copied.

Guess I'd like to see the patch nevertheless.

Regards,
	-is

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