Bug#816411: Etherwake: a configuration file would be helpful

2018-04-25 Thread Patrik Schindler
Hello, you are right when considering all possible command line options to be configurable. When it comes only to setting a default interface, I'd opt for just checking an appropriate environment variable. This is much easier to implement. Third option is to use shell aliasing like etherwake='

Bug#816411: etherwake: a configuration file would be helpful

2016-03-01 Thread Ben Hildred
Package: etherwake Version: 1.09-4 Severity: minor When you have a single ethernet device that is not called eth0 you must specify the ethernet device name on the commandline to avoid errors like 'SIOCGIFHWADDR on eth0 failed: No such device' This is anoying. the use of a configuration file is one