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Bug 75572

Summary:	nameif fails but exits with zero code
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	diego.santacruz
Component:	net-tools	Assignee:	Phil Knirsch <pknirsch>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	8.0	CC:	jeremyp, rvokal
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Description diego.santacruz 2002-10-09 22:25:27 UTC

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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 16:55:40 UTC

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 12:33:18 UTC

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