ipwatchd-script(1)

ipwatchd-script1

User-defined script called by ipwatchd daemon when ip conflict occurs

Usage

ipwatchd-script device IP_address MAC_address

Overview

This script is executed by IPwatchD daemon when IP conflict occurs. It uses IPwatchD-G-Notify (if available) to display warning message in Gnome sessions. System administrator can write own script to handle IP conflicts and instruct IPwatchD daemon to use it by modification of user_script directive in its configuration file.

Options

Following options are passed by IPwatchD daemon:

device

Name of network device in conflict.

IP_address

IP address in conflict.

MAC_address

MAC address of conflicting system.

Releases

Unchanged in 8 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).

  1. 6.0–13

Author

This manual page was written by Jaroslav Imrich <[email protected]>

From ipwatchd 1.3.0-1+nmu3 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.