CENI(1p)

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💖 CENI(1p) — the group chat guide 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation glow-up of CENI(1p) — yes that's the manual name, no I will not be normal about it. Sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let me tell you about the most lowkey iconic little TUI for your network config.

✨ NAME ✨

Ceni — Curses /etc/network/interfaces

Like. The name literally spells it out. Curses + /etc/network/interfaces. It's giving "I contain multitudes" but the multitudes are network interfaces 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Ceni [ options ]

That's it. That's the whole vibe. Ceni, then some options if you're feeling extra. Periodt 💅

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So basically Ceni is a Curses user interface for configuring network interfaces with ifupdown. You get to do your /etc/network/interfaces business through a whole cute terminal UI instead of hand-editing files and praying 🙏 Main character energy for your NICs, fr fr.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

  • --file filename — use filename as an alternative to /etc/network/interfaces. Yes bestie, you can point it at a different file. Live your truth 🫶
  • --iface iface — configure the network interface with name iface. Tell it which one, it handles that one 👑
  • --no-act — calls ifup and ifdown with the -n option so it simulates the action instead of actually doing it. Heads up though: this must be the first argument to have any effect. Not second, not third, first. The way that argument order is load-bearing 😭
  • --debug — debug output gets piped to /tmp/ceni.log. If something's being weird, go read the log, it's all in there 🔍

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Kel Modderman, <kel@otaku42.de> — absolute legend, we stan 🌟

Copyright (C) 2007 - 2010 by Kel Modderman

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 2 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.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>

On Debian GNU/Linux systems, the text of the GPL-2 license can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2.

Like, read your license bestie, it's important, no cap 📜✨

And that's the whole page!! This little manual is running on perl v5.28.1, dated 2019-01-31, and it's still out here doing its thing. Thanks for coming to my TED talk, go configure something responsibly 💖🦋🌸💅

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