Re: SOLVED (hopefully perl) API to /etc/network/interfaces?
On 05/31/11 23:23, Mike Mestnik wrote:
> On 05/26/11 17:16, Mike Mestnik wrote:
>> In-Reply-To: <20080412023656.GR14599@yi.org>
>>
>> Hello,
>> This is an old thread, but I find myself in a similar situation. I'd
>> like to edit a 4in6 tunnel endpoint and reconfigure the interface.
>> While I can handle the Apache/sudo parts of this I'm stuck with... OK
>> now how and I going to change this one value out of this whole file?
>>
>> My current plan is to convert the file to XML storing away comments and
>> partial white space as well as the settings. Then I should be able to
>> edit the setting a write the file back out.
>>
>> Any better ideas? For this project Perl seams to be the ideal language.
>>
>> I may contact the ifupdown maintainer to include this in his package, so
>> I'm looking to get it done right.
>>
> I'm quite certain this is a some-what usable solution. However it
> dosen't appear to have any means to preserver order. I'd also like
> input for the XMLers about the use of etc_network_interfaces for the
> RootName?
I've packaged this code as a [1]CPAN module.
1. http://search.cpan.org/~cheako/XML-Debian-ENetInterfaces/
Happy hacking.
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