>
> > This was reported on PPC too, and I thought it was just a PPC
anomoly. It
> > seems the msec run that takes place between the bootloader setup and
X
> > config is somehow disrupting the ftp connection. When I disabled
the msec
> > run in drakx and the problem went away. Msec does bring down/up the
> > network connects as part of this run, although it doesn't seem to
effect
> > an NFS install.
>
> nice. Now why is that needed?
> The culprit is (from /usr/share/msec/lib.sh):
>
> LoadSysctl () {
> /sbin/sysctl -e -p /etc/sysctl.conf
> service network restart
> }
>
> fredl, how do we fix this? The problem is that drakx run msec
supposing it
> will modify the files, NOT the running system. It seems we need 2
modes...
I do not like it as well. I guess it already tells you "you may need to
logout or login" (or like); it may as well tell you "you may need to
restart your system for changes to take effect".
-andrej