Man1 - netctl.1

netctl - Control the netctl network profile manager

netctl {COMMAND} [PROFILE]

netctl [–help | –version]

netctl may be used to introspect and control the state of the systemd services for the network profile manager.

The following commands are understood:

list

List all available profiles. Online profiles will be marked with a ‘*’, otherwise 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.

is-active [PROFILE]

Check whether the network profile specified on the command line is active. Prints the current state.

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*’.

is-enabled [PROFILE]

Check whether the systemd unit for the specified profile is enabled. Prints the current enable status.

edit [PROFILE]

Open the file of the specified profile in an editor. This does not reenable, restart, or verify any profiles.

verify [PROFILE]

Check the file of the specified profile for syntax errors. If no errors are found, no output is produced.

wait-online [PROFILE]

Wait until the interface of the profile has a routable IP address of some kind.

On success 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

$NETCTL_DEBUG

If set to “yes”, debugging output is generated.

The value of this variable is independent of the value of the variable with the same name in profiles.

$NETCTL_STATE_FILE

The location of the state file. Defaults to /var/lib/netctl/netctl.state.

*netctl-auto*(1), *netctl.profile*(5), *netctl.special*(7), *systemctl*(1)