Package: net-tools
Version: 1.60-17
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/ifconfig
Not even an error in $? is returned if failed to take device down,
Nor any error messages.
# ifconfig -s
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
lo16436 034 0 0
the problem is a kernel problem, if the kernel does not report an error
/sbin/ifconfig bla down ; echo $?
bla: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
255
like /etc/init.d/many_packages start|stop do.
As of policy the init scripts should return success if the state is already
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