IPWATCHD-SCRIPT(1)

📦 version 1.3.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 IPWATCHD-SCRIPT 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the manual page for ipwatchd-script — it's a General Commands Manual situation, and it's literally the little script that the IPwatchD daemon yells at when two devices start beefing over the same IP. yes, that kind of drama. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

ipwatchd-script — the user-defined script that the IPwatchD daemon calls when an IP conflict happens 👀💥

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ipwatchd-script device IP_address MAC_address

three little arguments, no flags, no fuss. she's simple, she's iconic, she's on a mission. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea 🍓 — this script gets executed by the IPwatchD daemon whenever an IP conflict occurs. somebody duplicated an address, chaos is brewing, and this is the script that gets pinged about it.

when it runs, it uses IPwatchD-G-Notify — if it's available, no pressure — to pop up a warning message in Gnome sessions. like a cute little "bestie, heads up" notification. 🔔✨

and the real main character energy? the system administrator can write their own script to handle IP conflicts however they want, and then tell the IPwatchD daemon to use it instead by modifying the user_script directive in its configuration file. custom vibes only. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these aren't options you pass — they're the ones the IPwatchD daemon hands over. so you know, it's giving "passed by", not "chosen by". 😌

  • device — the name of the network device that's in conflict. the one causing the scene. 💀
  • IP_address — the IP address that's in conflict. the actual address being fought over. 👯
  • MAC_address — the MAC address of the conflicting system. we know who did it. we have receipts. 🕵️‍♀️

👑 AUTHOR 👑

this manual page was written by Jaroslav Imrich <jariq@jariq.sk> — king behavior, thank you for your service. 🫡💖

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go read those next, bestie, they're all part of the same friend group. 🧚✨

and that's a wrap on IPWATCHD-SCRIPT(1) 💜 — this little page lives in the General Commands Manual, brought to you from the same era as the daemon itself, and yeah, the footer just says the name right back at you like a mirror. slay. 🎀🦋

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