RHEL: man page for interface configuration files

Question

How to get the man page for ifcfg-$Interface files? Something like man 5 $Keyword for /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3. Is there not a man page? Is the keyword wrong?

RHEL:~# cat /etc/os-release | egrep "^NAME=|^VERSION="
NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server"
VERSION="7.0 (Maipo)"
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# man --version
man 2.6.3
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# man 5 ifcfg
No manual entry for ifcfg in section 5
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# whatis ifcfg
ifcfg (8)            - simplistic script which replaces ifconfig IP managment
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# man -k ifcfg
ifcfg (8)            - simplistic script which replaces ifconfig IP managment
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# 
RHEL:~# file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3: ASCII text
RHEL:~# 

Works fine on SUSE:

SUSE:~# cat /etc/os-release | egrep "^NAME=|^VERSION="
NAME=openSUSE
VERSION="13.1 (Bottle)"
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# man --version
man 2.6.3
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# whatis ifcfg
ifcfg (5)            - common elements of network interface configuration
SUSE:~# SUSE:~# man 5 ifcfg
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# man -k ifcfg
ifcfg (5)            - common elements of network interface configuration
ifcfg-bonding (5)    - interface bonding configuration
ifcfg-bridge (5)     - ethernet bridge interface configuration
ifcfg-tunnel (5)     - network tunnel interface configuration
ifcfg-vlan (5)       - virtual LAN interface configuration
ifcfg-wireless (5)   - wireless LAN network interface configuration
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# 
SUSE:~# file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-enp0s3 
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-enp0s3: ASCII text
SUSE:~# 

Solution 1

I have found it in manual docs using find / -name *ifcfg*

Please use man 5 nm-settings-ifcfg-rh.

It includes most comprehensive documents. I have spent 1 hour to find it......HAHA

Solution 2

There doesn't seem to be a manpage for the interfaces config files in RHEL but the documentation can be found in:

/usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt

Look for the sections describing files /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<interface-name>

Also in your example the command whatis ifcfg returns

ifcfg (8) - simplistic script which replaces ifconfig IP managment

As you can see it refers to "section 8" - Admin tools and commands - and you can open the manpage with:

man 8 ifcfg

But be aware that it's not the manpage describing the sysconfig files ifcfg-<interface-name>. Instead it's a manpage for a command /sbin/ifcfg which is likely not what you want.

Solution 3

RHEL documentation for network-scripts (not strictly the man page you requested, but might help)

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/s1-networkscripts-interfaces.html

Comments

[Mike Diehn]

rpm -d initscripts

[user2964971]

Had to mark the new answer from May 18 at 18:18 as correct. However, if I could give +10 points, then I would give it to MLu.