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NAME

       netenv - Configure your system for different network environments

SYNOPSIS

       netenv

DESCRIPTION

       netenv  is  an  interactive utility to switch between different network configurations. It
       does not accept any command line arguments.

       On Debian systems, netenv can work with both PCMCIA and on-board network  cards.  You  can
       also use netenv to configure your windowmanager or your printing environment. The new menu
       item, however, will not work under many circumstances (it might work with a PCMCIA  card).
       The full documentation is included in html format (see below).

       Note that you either have to specify the boot parameter

       NETENV=configname

       or enter the chosen environment by hand during boot time. The boot process will stop until
       you entered something. Alternatively, you can specify a timeout, after which  the  default
       configuration will be used (see below). If you want to change to the default configuration
       without waiting for the timeout, set NETENV to the hostname of your computer.

       Netenv needs the dialog binary for user interaction;  if  it  cannot  be  found,  it  will
       display an error message and exit.

       The  system  administrator  can also run netenv during normal operation.  netenv will then
       ask wether to activate the changes  by  restarting  the  networking  now.  In  this  case,
       /etc/init.d/networking restart will be executed as well as additional scripts specified in
       NETENV_RUN_INIT_SCRIPTS

CONFIGURATION

       For setting up different network  configurations  and  related  configuration  files  like
       XF86Config, see the html-Documentation.

       netenv  will  read  the  file  /etc/netenv/netenv.conf.   You  can  specify  the following
       variables there:

       ALLOW_EXPERT
              If this is set to  YES, you can enter "expert mode"  by  pressing   CANCEL  in  the
              chooser  dialog.  THIS  IS A SECURITY RISK!  Everybody with physical access to your
              computer will get a ROOT SHELL without any password! Do not leave your laptop alone
              when this is set to YES. This feature is disabled by default.

       COLS   The width of the screen used, in columns or characters. Default is 68.

       NETENV_DO_RESTART
              If  set to yes, and netenv is called with a controlling tty (that is, interactively
              by root instead of by the init script), netenv will  restart  the  network  without
              asking.  If  set  to never, it will not do this, also without asking. Otherwise you
              will be asked, obviously.

       NETENV_TIMEOUT
              The time (in seconds) netenv will  show  the  dialog  before  chosing  the  default
              configuration. The default is 0, which means that it will wait forever.

       NETENV_RUN_INIT_SCRIPTS
              If  the system administrator runs netenv during normal system operation and chooses
              to activate the changes at once, then the init scripts specified in  this  variable
              are called with argument restart after calling /etc/init.d/networking restart.  You
              can use this to notify daemons of the changed network  configuration.  The  scripts
              have  to  reside  in  /etc/init.d/ and must be specified as a space separated list,
              e.g.  NETENV_RUN_INIT_SCRIPTS="chrony myinitscript".  Default is none.

       NETENV_START_STOP_SCRIPTS
              In Debian, calling an init script with the argument  restart  means  that  it  will
              execute  itself  twice,  first  with  the argument stop, then with start. Some init
              scripts, however, do more than that. Currently I am only aware of  wwwoffle,  which
              checks  its online status before and switches back to the same state after restart.
              (The netenv maintainer considers this a bug, the wwwoffle maintainer a feature.) To
              be  able  to  change  from offline to online, or vice versa, we have to work around
              this magic. This can be done by stopping  the  service  manually  and  starting  it
              again,  and  that  is  what  is  done  for  scripts in this variable (again a space
              separated list), e.g.  NETENV_START_STOP_SCRIPTS=wwwoffle (for further information,
              see the html documentation).

       NETENV_REMEMBER_LAST
              Debian's  netenv  can  also  remember  your  last selection. You can enable this by
              setting the variable to yes. Furthemore  if  you  set  it  to  default,  your  last
              selection will be used in case of timeout (see NETENV_TIMEOUT).

       Note  that  the  default  values  are  set in the script before /etc/netenv/netenv.conf is
       sourced. Thus, environment variables cannot be used (and  this  doesn't  make  much  sense
       since netenv usually is not called by a user.

       Some   other   variables   are   also   used  and  could,  in  principle,  be  defined  in
       /etc/netenv/netenv.conf, but aren't useful. See the executable  /sbin/netenv  for  further
       information.

REPORTING BUGS

       Report  bugs  to  Gerd  Bavendiek  <bav@epost.de>,  or to the Debian Bugtracking System if
       you're using this distribution.

SEE ALSO

       Further documentation for netenv can be found in /usr/share/doc/netenv/netenv-en.html  and
       /usr/share/doc/netenv/netenv-de.html

AUTHOR

       netenv  was  written  by  Gerd  Bavendiek <bav@epost.de> and adapted for Debian by Michael
       Meskes <meskes@debian.org>, Robert van  der  Meulen  <rvdm@debian.org>  and  Frank  Küster
       <frank@kuesterei.ch>.

       This manual page was written by Frank Küster.