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Manual: nm-online

NM-ONLINE(1)					   General Commands Manual					NM-ONLINE(1)

NAME
       nm-online - ask NetworkManager whether the network is connected

SYNOPSIS

       nm-online [OPTIONS...]

DESCRIPTION
       nm-online is a utility to find out whether we are online. It is done by asking NetworkManager about its status. When
       run, nm-online waits until NetworkManager reports an active connection, or specified timeout expires. On exit, the
       returned status code should be checked (see the return codes below).

       This tool is not very useful to call directly. It is however used by NetworkManager-wait-online.service with
       --wait-for-startup argument (see NetworkManager-wait-online.service(8)).

       By default, connections have the ipv4.may-fail and ipv6.may-fail properties set to yes; this means that
       NetworkManager waits for one of the two address families to complete configuration before considering the connection
       activated. If you need a specific address family configured before network-online.target is reached, set the
       corresponding may-fail property to no.

OPTIONS
       -h | --help
	   Print help information.

       -q | --quiet
	   Don't print anything.

       -s | --wait-for-startup
	   Wait for NetworkManager startup to complete, rather than waiting for network connectivity specifically. Startup
	   is considered complete once NetworkManager has activated (or attempted to activate) every auto-activate
	   connection which is available given the current network state. This corresponds to the moment when NetworkManager
	   logs "startup complete". This mode is generally only useful at boot time. After startup has completed, nm-online
	   -s will just return immediately, regardless of the current network state.

	   There are various ways to affect when startup complete is reached. For details see NetworkManager-wait-
	   online.service(8).

       -t | --timeout seconds
	   Time to wait for a connection, in seconds. If the option is not provided, the environment variable
	   NM_ONLINE_TIMEOUT is honored. The default timeout is 30 seconds.

       -x | --exit
	   Exit immediately if NetworkManager is not running or connecting.

EXIT STATUS
       nm-online exits with status 0 if it succeeds, a value greater than 0 is returned if an error occurs.

       0
	   Success – already online or connection established within given timeout.

       1
	   Offline or not online within given timeout.

       2
	   Unknown or unspecified error.

SEE ALSO
       nmcli(1), NetworkManager(8), NetworkManager-wait-online.service(8).

NetworkManager 1.54.3												NM-ONLINE(1)