On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 09:33:52PM +0000, Ben Boeckel wrote: > Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > At the same time, we believe that most packages using net-tools should > > be patched to use iproute instead, while others can continue using the > > wrappers for some time. The ifupdown package is obviously the first > > candidate, but it seems that a version using iproute has been available > > in experimental since 2007. > > Maybe this is the wrong place, but is iproute going to honor > USERCTL="yes" in the ifcfg scripts? It seems it currently doesn't > whereas ifup/ifdown do: > > % grep USERCTL /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-em2 > USERCTL="yes" > % ip link set em2 down > RTNETLINK answers: Operation not permitted iproute has no way to honor such things. It is a low level tool that doesn't read configuration files, do privilege escalation to be able to perform system level tasks as a normal user, etc. iproute compares to ifconfig and route, not ifup/ifdown. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
