netlink-notify
Notify about netlink changes
This runs in background and produces notifications whenever a netlink event is received. Notifications look like this:
A device is down:
A device is up:
A device received an IP address:
A device received an IPv6 address:
A device disappeared:
Use at your own risk, pay attention to license and warranty, and disclaimer on external links!
Requirements
To compile and run netlink-notify you need:
- systemd ↗️
- libnotify ↗️
- linux ↗️
- markdown ↗️ (HTML documentation)
- librsvg ↗️ (convert icons from SVG to PNG)
- oxipng ↗️ (optimize PNG icons)
Some systems may require additional development packages for the libraries.
Look for libnotify-devel or similar.
Build and install
Building and installing is very easy. Just run:
make
followed by:
make install
This will place an executable at /usr/bin/netlink-notify,
documentation can be found in /usr/share/doc/netlink-notify/.
Additionally a systemd unit file is installed to /usr/lib/systemd/user/.
Usage
Just run netlink-notify to run it once. A systemd user service can be
started and/or enabled with systemctl --user start netlink-notify
or systemctl --user enable netlink-notify.
License and warranty
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
Disclaimer on external links
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Upstream
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