Problem in detecting failure of route installation because of insufficiant rights
Teto
mattator at gmail.com
Wed Oct 23 14:25:04 EDT 2013
I downloaded the latest rc and the problem is gone :D
2013/10/22 Thomas Graf <tgraf at suug.ch>:
> On 10/16/13 at 04:36pm, Teto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've started writing a python interface to install routes
>> (https://github.com/teto/libnl/blob/master/python/netlink/route/route.py).
>> Right now my script looks like:
>>
>> routingTable = nlrtr.RoutingTable("main")
>> route = nlrtr.RoutingEntry()
>> route.dst = dst._nl_addr
>>
>> nh = nlrtr.NextHop()
>> nh.interface = myif.ifindex
>> route.add_nexthop(nh)
>>
>> routingTable.add( route )
>>
>> It succeeds in installing the routes if I I've got the correct rights.
>> However if I forget "sudo" to launch my script the C function
>> "rtnl_route_add" still returns 0 (success) so I am not able to detect
>> that the route was not installed. How can I achieve this ?
>
> Can you run your script with the environment variable NLCB
> set to "debug" and provide the output?
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