From 80291f4473259db206911e3f54023a13c90f3e93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xq2005 <qxuqxu@cn.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2013 01:45:23 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] bug 3808: error info when running confignics

---
 xCAT/postscripts/configeth | 10 +++++++---
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/xCAT/postscripts/configeth b/xCAT/postscripts/configeth
index b29c8f1b5..356dbb872 100755
--- a/xCAT/postscripts/configeth
+++ b/xCAT/postscripts/configeth
@@ -784,9 +784,13 @@ else
         num_ipv4_index=0
         num_ipv6_index=0
         num_index=0
-        cat $str_his_file | grep $str_nic_name
-        if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
-            echo "${str_nic_name}" >> $str_his_file
+        if [ -e "$str_his_file" ];then
+            grep $str_nic_name $str_his_file
+            if [ $? -ne 0 ];then
+                echo "${str_nic_name}" >> $str_his_file
+            fi
+        else
+            echo "${str_nic_name}" > $str_his_file
         fi
         #delete the old alias configuration files on redhat
         if [ "$str_os_type" = "redhat" ];then