ifconfig: cannot open /proc/net/dev in Centos 7 container on RHEL7.3

Question

I'm getting this error while running "ifconfig" command in my CentOS 7 container

The error i get is

cannot open /proc/net/dev (Permission Denied)

how to solve this..??? I'm getting this problem in my each container. I give full permission to /proc/net/dev but it's not working

actually i'm working on python cgi ...and i run apache server in it....where i am getting a page on web browser and run "ifconfig " or "ifconfig -a" command on it as a input ..then as out put it's showing this error — pankaj, Sep 10 '17 at 06:25

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 10 '17 at 07:18

Without knowing your docker run ... command line it is hard to guess but maybe you will like to add --cap-add=NET_ADMIN to your run command.

From here:

For interacting with the network stack, instead of using --privileged they should use --cap-add=NET_ADMIN to modify the network interfaces.

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