On Thursday 16 June 2011 19:25, David Henderson wrote:
> Hello everyone!  I'm working some more with the 'if*' commands and come 
> across an issue and wanted to ask about it here.  I have a script that 
> calls 'ifdown' for an adapter like: ifdown -f lan01 && echo success || 
> echo failure.  I noticed that it wasn't executing correctly so I 
> performed the step manually from the command line like:
> 
> # ifdown lan01 && echo success || echo failure
> ifdown: interface lan01 not configured
> success

"ifdown lan01; echo $?" would be more informative here

> # ifconfig
> lan01     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:27:0E:17:99:35
>            inet addr:192.168.0.198  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>            UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:340 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>            RX bytes:34257 (33.4 KiB)  TX bytes:15911 (15.5 KiB)
>            Memory:d0d00000-d0d20000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>            inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>            UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
> 
> I see two issues right off the top.  First, as you can see, the lan01 
> interface does exist but isn't seen by 'ifdown'

ifdown checks iface state by looking into /var/run/ifstate.
If you configured iface, say, by hand, ifdown will see nothing there
and will think that "interface lan01 not configured".

Whta is in your /var/run/ifstate and /etc/network/interfaces files?

> and second, it's exit  
> status doesn't appear to be correct as it should have shown 'failure' 
> instead of 'success'.

This is a bug _if_ standard ifdown does report failure in this case.
Can you test standard tool behavior?

-- 
vda
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