[ltp] Don't trust the kensington lock socket

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 02:21:09PM -0500, Bill Hudacek wrote:
> Interesting idea, I like it, but /etc/iftab is deprecated.  In Ubuntu=20
> 7.10, use /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rule , for example.
>=20
> Note that the file format is different, though the script only requires=
=20
> minor adjustment...
>=20
> HH=3Dwww.MYSERVER.com; wget -qO /dev/null http://$HH/$(echo=20
> $(hostname)_$(grep eth0 /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules | awk=
=20
> -F\" '{print $6}') |tr -c [:alnum:] _)

Why parse a possibly incomplete configuration file when you can get the
actual MAC address by parsing ifconfig (or "ip link show eth0") output?

Marius Gedminas
--=20
Microsoft -- because God hates us.

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