Re: Error in /etc/rc.d/staticroute

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> I have never used this. I grepped my man pages and found the route.conf(5)
> manual. It shows the example:
>
> net 192.168.2.0 -netmask 255.255.255.0 192.168.150.2
>
> (Note no leading dash which means to remove.)
>
> So the dash prefix is needed as in the modifier "-net".
>
> The syntax is confusing.

Yep.  But the man page does help make it clearer.

> It seems like /etc/rc.local and /etc/rc.shutdown could be used instead for
> the commands to run. And then complete route(8) commands listed in
> route.conf (even with leading minus - sign).
>
> Or is the order critical that /etc/rc.local would not be good enough?
>
> Note if your patch is used, the man page needs to be changed too.

Given that noone else seems to mind the current behavior, I'll adapt and 
add the 'net' keyword to my /etc/route.conf

>  Jeremy C. Reed
>
> p.s. I just update the script with a comment that points to the man page.
>
> !DSPAM:47a1e7901743365365030!

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