On Sun 24 Apr 2022 at 17:06:48 (+0200), Hans wrote: > Am Sonntag, 24. April 2022, 16:53:49 CEST schrieb David Wright: > Hi David, > > So what are the contents of /etc/default/macchanger (after all, > > putting ENABLE_ON_POST_UP_DOWN=YES would be interpreted as the > > default, ENABLE_ON_POST_UP_DOWN=false), and what's getting logged > > in /var/log/macchanger.log? > > > > It is set =YES
Then I don't understand your problem. AFAICT, setting ENABLE_ON_POST_UP_DOWN=YES in /etc/default/macchanger will prevent ifupdown from running macchanger. Then where's the bug? I'm not in front of the machine, of course, so I can't choose to look at anything I would like to. So, in the absence of being told what's logged, I guess I'll draw the conversation to a close. > > It might be worth checking when macchanger is attempting to make its > > change and see how this compares with when systemd is changing the > > name of the relevant interface. > > > It can be changed, whenever I set the interface to down (so that it is not in > use), thus telling me, macchanger is generally working. > > BTW, looking at the package, the last entry in > > /usr/share/doc/macchanger/changelog.gz is dated 2004-05-10 and the > > last in /usr/share/doc/macchanger/changelog.Debian.gz 17 Jun 2018. > > Hmm, there are some similar bugreports related to this issue, too. > Let us hope, the mainatiner does fix them. > > > > As you're running systemd, any reason you're avoiding using its > > own method? > > > > Yes, because it does not work! Systemd, or macchanger? In case I was unclear, systemd's own method is to put MACAddressPolicy=random into a .link file. I wondered why you don't use systemd's (sole, individual, unaided) method. Or does that not work? OTOH are you saying that the /combination/ of systemd driving macchanger does not work? (That's why I asked about the timings earlier.) As an example, it's well known that systemd and iwd, both set up to perform "natively", create a race condition, mitigated by a systemd .link file. Now, I don't know how macchanger deals with any such possibility (and, quite frankly, I don't really care either), but I'm not going to figure it out remotely, am I. So while macchanger is apparently configured not to run, as I said, I'll leave. > However, for me personally I can fix it by > editing those files myself. But I am thinking of all the other people, who > want software, that is working. > > For myself, I will often find a solution, but I know a lot of people, who are > much less experienced than myself - those are in my mind (and are in the > devlopers, too, I hope). Experienced bug reporters post the facts, rather than their interpretation of those facts. Cheers, David.
