[5533] in testers
Re: Linux; 9.2.[67]; "bringing up interface eth0.saved"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Thu Jun 19 17:19:38 2003
To: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 19 Jun 2003 17:19:36 -0400
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Thanks for all the other fixes.
I've started looking at redhat-config-network to see how it might
work or interact with our scripts and I'll send in suggestions
soon.
As for this particular issue, I don't know if I have a specific
recommendation. I don't know if it has any side effects other than
potentually running dhcp twice. I can live with it, but users might
get confused. It's the confused user that I'm trying to protect ;)
-derek
Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU> writes:
> > I get a startup message:
> > bringing up interface eth0.saved
> >
> > I dont think it should be doing this...
>
> I don't think this causes any problems in practice, and fixing it is
> annoying because we have the options of:
>
> - Making syncconf call the old file eth0.bak, which Redhat's scripts
> know to ignore, but is inconsistant with other plaforms.
>
> - Install our own copy of /etc/init.d/network that knows to ignore
> ifcfg-* files ending in .saved.
>
> - Put the .saved file in another directory, which is also inconsistant
> with other platforms.
>
> So I think this is one we're going to let slide.
>
> Garry
>
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