[15631] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0L -> 8.1.13 update misses NETDEV
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Whitson)
Sun Nov 2 04:27:52 1997
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 1997 04:27:48 -0500
From: Mike Whitson <mwhitson@MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU, ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: ops@MIT.EDU
So, while setting up a replacement for an ASO server, I installed a
Sun at 8.0, and then updated it to 8.1.13. This process left the
NETDEV variable in /etc/athena/rc.conf set to "NODEV". When I changed
its address and hostname from the staging address to the deploy
address (by editing rc.conf), syncconf seemed to have written the new
hostname to /etc/hostname.NODEV, leaving /etc/hostname.le0 containing
the old (staging) hostname. This in turn caused network
initialization to fail horribly (it seemed to be falling back to RARP
after failing a normal ifconfig).
Furthermore, when I edited rc.conf again and changed NETDEV to "le0",
syncconf still did not appear to note this change; I was forced to
edit hostname.le0 by hand.
-wrong mike
