[Netkit.users] Sudo vs Su

[Massimo Rimondini]

Dear Giovambattista,

patches and bugs can be submitted via email or the bug tracking system,
the latter being the preferred alternative.
This issue is already documented in this bug report:
http://bugs.netkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9

However, thank you for reporting.

Regards,
Massimo.*

*
Giovambattista Ianni wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I found that current netkit always uses su for invoking the
> manage_tuntap command, no matter of the USE_SUDO variable value: I'm
> not an expert of sh programming, but I found that the culprit was just
> a '==' instead of '=' in a string comparison.
>
> Hope the attached patch helps: sorry if I post this on the list, I'm
> not sure which is the 'official' way of submitting patches/bugs (nor
> if this is has been already solved)
>
> regards, gb
>
> Massimo Rimondini ha scritto:
>> Dear Giovambattista,
>>
>> this bug report addresses your problem:
>> http://bugs.netkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10
>>
>> Regards,
>> Massimo.
>>
>>
>> Giovambattista Ianni wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I found some misbehavior when launching a VM with an alternative
>>> terminal, like
>>> vstart fw --eth0=A --xterm=gnome
>>>
>>> What happens is that the started machine cannot activate the eth0
>>> link on the hub A
>>> (excerpt from dmesg below)
>>> ----
>>> Computing a digest to use as ethernet address for device eth0
>>> Netdevice 0 (72:e8:99:2b:97:37) : daemon backend (uml_switch version
>>> 3) - unix:/home/ianni/.netkit/hubs/vhub_ianni_A.cnct
>>> daemon_open : control connect failed, errno = 2
>>> -----
>>>
>>> I did some tracing and found that the corresponding uml_switch
>>> process is started but dies as soon as the VM kernel is started, for
>>> no apparent reason.
>>>
>>> The problem could have something to deal with start timings but I'm
>>> not sure: for
>>>
>>> vstart fw -v --eth0=A --eth1=B --eth2=C --eth3=D --xterm=gnome
>>>
>>> I get that, randomly, eth3 and eth2 have their hub survive and get
>>> connected correctly.
>>>
>>> Is somebody else able to reproduce the same situation?
>>> (I'm using gnome-terminal 2.28.1 on a Ubuntu 9.10 as host machine,
>>> fresh netkit 2.7 installation)
>>>
>>>
>>> regards, gb
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