---
name: "intuitively"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "intuitively"
version: "0.7-1"
release: "Debian 3.1 (Sarge)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/intuitively"
---

# intuitively(8)

Automagic configuration of network parameters

## NAME

intuitively — Automagic configuration of network parameters

## SYNOPSIS

**intuitively** \[**-V** \]  \[**-f** \]  \[**-v**  \| **-q** \]  ... \[-l *location* \]  \[-i *interface* \]  \[-c *config\_file* \]  \[-r *location\_file* \]  \[**-S** \]

## DESCRIPTION

Sends out ARP (address resolution protocol) requests and,  depending on who answers, it configures the network interface and  default route.  It also links the files in  /etc/intuitively/NETWORK into your root hierarchy

## OPTIONS

- **-f**, **--force**

  force overwriting of non-symlinks when linking the  files from /etc/intuitively into the "real hierarchy"

- **-V**, **--version**

  display version and quit

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  be more verbose (may be repeated)

- **-q**, **--quiet**

  be more quiet (may be repeated)

- **-l** *location,* **--location=***location*

  force selection of location.  Useful if, for  some reason **intuitively** fails  to detect your location

- **-i** *interface,* **--interface=***interface*

  force selection of interface.  Useful if, for  some reason **libnet** (or  **intuitively)**) fails to detect  which interface to use, or if you have more than one  interface.

- **-c** *config\_file,* **--config=***config\_file*

  use alternate configuration file.

- **-r** *location\_file,* **--locationfile=***location\_file*

  write the location found into that file.

- **-S**, **--no-scripts**

  don't run the script specified in intuitively.conf.  Nice for debugging.

## EXIT STATUS

**intuitively** returns a zero exit  status if the everything went ok.  If something went wrong, it  prints an error message and exits with a non-zero exit value.  Use  one or more **-v** to try to debug what is going on  and send bug reports.

## AUTHOR

**Intuitively** was originally based  on **divine**, though almost all of the  code has been rewritten multiple times.  **divine** is written by Felix von Leitner  \<felix@fefe.de\>.  Intuitively is written by  Tollef Fog Heen \<tollef@add.no\>

## BUGS

It is impossible to have netmask = 32, but who wants that  anyway? If you find a bug, please report by email to me