NETCTL(1)NETCTL(1)NAME
netctl - Control the netctl network profile manager
SYNOPSIS
netctl {COMMAND} [PROFILE]
netctl [--help | --version]
DESCRIPTION
netctl may be used to introspect and control the state of the systemd
services for the network profile manager.
OPTIONS
The following commands are understood:
list
List all available profiles. Active profiles will be marked with a
‘*’.
store
Saves which profiles are currently active.
restore
Loads the profiles that were active during the last invocation of
‘store’.
stop-all
Stops all active network profiles.
start [PROFILE]
Start the network profile specified on the command line.
stop [PROFILE]
Stop the network profile specified on the command line.
restart [PROFILE]
Restart the network profile specified on the command line. If it is
not started yet, it will be started.
switch-to [PROFILE]
Starts the network profile specified on the command line after
stopping all profiles that refer to the same interface.
status [PROFILE]
Show terse runtime status information about a profile, followed by
its most recent log data from the journal.
enable [PROFILE]
Enable the systemd unit for the profile specified. This will create
a unit configuration file. If the file already exists, the command
fails. No other profiles than the one specified will be enabled.
Changes to the general options in a profile specification will not
propagate to the unit configuration file automatically. After such
changes, it is necessary to ‘reenable’ the profile.
disable [PROFILE]
Disable the systemd unit for the profile specified. This will
remove the file created by ‘enable’ even if it was customized, so
be careful.
reenable [PROFILE]
Reenable the systemd unit for the profile specified. This is
effectively a combination of ‘disable’ and ‘enable’.
EXIT STATUS
On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.
ENVIRONMENT
$NETCTL_DEBUG
If set to "yes", debugging output is generated.
$NETCTL_STATE_FILE
The location of the state file. Defaults to
/var/lib/netctl/netctl.state.
SEE ALSOnetctl-auto(1), netctl.profile(5), netctl.special(7), systemctl(1)
1.6 03/11/2014 NETCTL(1)