On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:00:36PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/15/23 07:03, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, May 15, 2023 at 12:10:13AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > I read somewhere that the recent tweaks (improvements?) to > > > ifconfig's output were breaking scripts, which is hardly surprising. > > > > I can personally confirm this as true. Some of the machines at work > > run a proprietary software product that uses a license key, tied to > > the machine's ethernet interface's MAC address. The vendor's script > > runs ifconfig and tries to parse the output to get the MAC address. > > This script fails on the recent versions of net-tools. > > > > . > One might be able to fix that with hexedit or a clone, by changing the [...]
Thanks, but I don't require any assistance with this. I simply told the vendor what the correct IP address and MAC address are. (They're a small company, and we have direct contact with them.) I was simply confirming that yes, the changes to net-tools did in fact break some real-world scripts.
