Simple age check for Linux:

[bmartin427@techhub.social]

@stacksmashing I've fully retrained myself to use ip for common tasks, but I resorted to ifconfig the other day to assign a second, static IP to an existing interface

[brie@mastodon.social]

@stacksmashing My personal hell version of this is keeping forgetting about systemd timers and just getting pissed when I don't find what I'm looking for with crontab

[bytex64@awesome.garden]

@stacksmashing For FreeBSD:

If you’re using FreeBSD, you’re old enough.

[cheesefox@infosec.exchange]

@stacksmashing always so annoying when ifconfig returns ‘command not found’

[kaaswe@swecyb.com]

@hisold @stacksmashing
Ban them for life, unfriend and block

[mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org]

@notbobbytables @CanLehmann @stacksmashing on Linux, it only displays a subset of the IPs on an iface (on BSD it works). I guess they invented a NIH thing because they didn’t manage to fix that.

[zymurgic@mastodon.online]

@stacksmashing if their host has more 3 active physical network interfaces, they clearly know what they're doing and know more than any dumb politician. If they only have IPv6 active then they know more than most ISPs.

[jelte@mastodon.nl]

@n @stacksmashing i know that plenty of tools do it, but i'm old enough to consider multi-letter arguments with a single hyphen sacrilege

[alarig@hostux.social]

@stacksmashing It’s the other way around, `ifconfig` relies on deprecated APIs since 10+ years and is unreliable (as well as having one of the worst UX).

[g33katwork@infosec.exchange]

@stacksmashing Alternatively ask the user to enter a syntactically correct perl statement. Bonus points for just ;

[stacksmashing@infosec.exchange]

@G33KatWork typing Perl gets you a 20% discount on your next colonoscopy