MFC 280721:

Allow additional flags to be passed to netstat -i in the daily status check.
In particular, this allows an administrator to specify "-h" for human
readable output if that is preferred.

The default setting passes "-d", so that can be excluded by using a custom
setting.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/etc/defaults/periodic.conf b/etc/defaults/periodic.conf
index 0a6807b..3cde9b5 100644
--- a/etc/defaults/periodic.conf
+++ b/etc/defaults/periodic.conf
@@ -117,6 +117,7 @@ daily_status_gconcat_enable="NO"			# Check gconcat(8)
 # 420.status-network
 daily_status_network_enable="YES"			# Check network status
 daily_status_network_usedns="YES"			# DNS lookups are ok
+daily_status_network_netstat_flags="-d"			# netstat(1) flags
 
 # 430.status-rwho
 daily_status_rwho_enable="YES"				# Check system status
diff --git a/etc/periodic/daily/420.status-network b/etc/periodic/daily/420.status-network
index 13ae1e8..03166a9 100755
--- a/etc/periodic/daily/420.status-network
+++ b/etc/periodic/daily/420.status-network
@@ -16,12 +16,14 @@ case "$daily_status_network_enable" in
 	echo ""
 	echo "Network interface status:"
 
+	flags="${daily_status_network_netstat_flags}"
 	case "$daily_status_network_usedns" in
 	    [Yy][Ee][Ss])
-		netstat -id && rc=0 || rc=3;;
+		;;
 	    *)
-		netstat -idn && rc=0 || rc=3;;
-	esac;;
+		flags="${flags} -n";;
+	esac
+	netstat -i ${flags} && rc=0 || rc=3;;
 
     *)  rc=0;;
 esac