:: Re: [DNG] runit setup
Etusivu
Poista viesti
Vastaa
Lähettäjä: Manfred Wassmann
Päiväys:  
Vastaanottaja: dng
Aihe: Re: [DNG] runit setup
On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 10:53 AM aitor <aitor_czr@???> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 6/8/23 12:35, Manfred Wassmann via Dng wrote:
>
> Reinventing the wheel? You could just run /sbin/ifconfig to get the
> available network interfaces. That is standard on unices and thus
> portable.
>
> As far as I know, ifconfig has been deprecated.


It's part of the Posix standard so unless you're poettering won't go away
plus on Linux you also have ip from iproute2 as an alternative since
kernel version 2.2 and ...

> What's the incentive for a dependency on a new tool?
>
> Because these commands may or may not work depending on the started services.


... if your init system or service breaks such essential tools you
should fix it there IMHO