netreport(1) [redhat man page]

NETREPORT(1)						      General Commands Manual						      NETREPORT(1)

NAME

       netreport - request notification of network interface changes

SYNOPSIS

       netreport [-r]

DESCRIPTION

       netreport tells the network management scripts to send a SIGIO signal to the process which called netreport when any network interface sta-
       tus changes occur.

OPTIONS

       -r     Remove the current request (if any) for the calling process.

NOTES

       If a program does not call netreport with the -r option before it exits, and another process is	created  with  the  same  PID  before  any
       changes take place in interface status, it is possible that the new process will receive a spurious SIGIO.

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USERNETCTL(8)						      System Manager's Manual						     USERNETCTL(8)

NAME

       usernetctl - allow a user to manipulate a network interface if permitted

SYNOPSIS

       usernetctl interface-name up|down|report

DESCRIPTION

       usernetctl  checks to see if users are allowed to manipulate the network interface specified by interface-name, and then tries to bring the
       network interface up or down, if up or down was specified on the command line, or returns true or false status (respectively) if the report
       option was specified.

       usernetctl  is  not  really  meant to be called directly by users, though it currently works fine that way.  It is used as a wrapper by the
       ifup and ifdown scripts, so that users can do exactly the same thing as root:
       ifup interface-name
       ifdown interface-name
       and ifup and ifdown will call usernetctl automatically to allow the interface status change.

OPTIONS

       interface-name
	      The name of the network interface to check; for example, "ppp0".	For backwards compatibility, "ifcfg-ppp0" and "/etc/sysconfig/net-
	      work-scripts/ifcfg-ppp0" are also supported.

       up|down
	      Attempt to bring the interface up or down.

       report Report on whether users can bring the interface up or down.

NOTES

       Alternate device configurations may inherit the default configuration's permissions.

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