Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-10
Severity: normal
# ip l s dev dummy0 up
# ip l s dummy0 name --help
# ip l l --help
6: --help: <BROADCAST,NOARP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue
link/ether 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ifconfig --help 2>&1 | head -n3
Usage:
ifconfig [-a] [-i] [-v] [-s] <interface> [[<AF>] <address>]
[add <address>[/<prefixlen>]]
[...]-- Also note that well-behaving programs list the --help output on stdout, NOT on stderr! # ifconfig -- --help ifconfig: option `--' not recognised. ifconfig: `--help' gives usage information. The problem is more severe then it seems at the first glance: At the very moment, I'm trying to write a portable script that will check for a device of a given name being present on a system. The admin could have set the device name to virtually anything, using ip(8), but ip isn't present on most systems, and in fact it could have been removed after the device name change, even on this system. Note iwconfig (from the wireless-tools package) has exactly the same problem (which makes things worse). Cheers, Jan. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.28-jan Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.ISO-8859-2 (charmap=ISO-8859-2) Versions of packages net-tools depends on: ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an -- no debconf information -- )^o-o^| jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | .v K e-mail: jjminar FastMail FM ` - .' phone: +44(0)7981 738 696 \ __/Jan icq: 345 355 493 __|o|__Minář irc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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