On 12/10/18 6:28 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 12/8/18 11:24 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote: >> On 12/8/18 10:46 AM, Matthew Miller wrote: >>> On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 01:31:34PM -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote: >>>> I'm trying to understand what prevents having a shell script, or >>>> two, that takes a single parameter, and turns on or off the >>>> specified network interface. And then calling those scripts "ifup" >>>> and "ifdown". >>>> >>>> Why does this have to stop working, as it does now? >>> >>> Oh -- those shell scripts exist. They're there now. The person who maintains >>> them isn't interested in doing so forever, so there's a warning. If you'd >>> like, I'm sure you could step up and say "I want to maintain these commands >>> as a compatibility layer". >> >> The NetworkManager package contains ifup and ifdown scripts. I don't see how there's >> any maintenance involved, since they just call nmcli. The warning message just says to >> use the scripts from NetworkManager instead of network-scripts, not that they're going >> away. > > Where are NetworkManager's located? /usr/libexec/nm-ifup I described what happens in an earlier post. [egreshko@f29bk ~]$ which ifup /usr/sbin/ifup [egreshko@f29bk ~]$ ll /usr/sbin/ifup lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 22 Nov 7 10:35 /usr/sbin/ifup -> /etc/alternatives/ifup [egreshko@f29bk ~]$ ll /etc/alternatives/ifup lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 20 Nov 7 10:35 /etc/alternatives/ifup -> /usr/libexec/nm-ifup [egreshko@f29bk ~]$ cat /usr/libexec/nm-ifup #!/usr/bin/sh nmcli connection load "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$1" && exec nmcli connection up filename "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-$1" -- Right: I dislike the default color scheme Wrong: What idiot picked the default color scheme _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx