#4245 Webmin can't handle Source directive in /etc/network/interfaces

[Luís Pedro Algarvio]

hello

Webmin can't handle the Source directive in /etc/network/interfaces

It is used to load other config files into interfaces.

Failed to save enabled features : Error reading file : unexpected line 'source /etc/network/interfaces-enabled/*.conf '

This error is reported in Virtualmin.
Other modules might also be triggering it.

[Jamie Cameron]

No, that format isn't supported yet.

Which Linux distribution are you seeing this on?

[Luís Pedro Algarvio]

sorry, forgot to mention

Debian 7.0
I'm unsure if Debian 6.0 supports it too, but probably does.

In CentOS, i'm not aware if the directive is supported, but there is a config file for each interface.

[Luís Pedro Algarvio]

i've supplied sample configuration files with ommited IPs

[Jamie Cameron]

Thanks. Were these config files from a stock install of Debian 7?

Webmin does support this format on CentOS (because it has always and only ever used a separate file for each interface), but on Debian up till now only a single file has been used.

[Luís Pedro Algarvio]

not from stock, i customized them.

i was faced a situation where there could be a need to activate/deactivate a particular NIC, or switch from static to DHCP, without rewriting the file, so i searched for a directive.

so i implemented a debian apache2 alike solution (with interfaces-enabled) and symlinks pointing to interfaces-available, resorting to the source directive