On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:25:59PM -0700, Todd Lyons wrote:
> SainTiss wrote on Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:19:42AM +0200 :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm trying to set up NFS here... I've noticed linuxconf is kind of
> > f*cked up... It tries to execute "/etc/init.d/network
> > {status|reload|start|stop}" or something, which is of course a syntax
> > error...
> 
> The {status|reload|start|stop} is probably an error message from the
> script that is showing the valid commands.

The Linuxconf howto/FAQ says:

> The network script (/etc/rc.d/init.d) is a little special. For the
> network script, it uses the tag "probe: true". This tells Linuxconf
> to let the script finds out by itself if it needs a restart or not
> (restart of whatever). When probe is true, Linuxconf calls the
> script with the probe argument

> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network probe

> this normally prints nothing when everything is up to date. If
> something is not right, the script output simply "reload". Linuxconf
> picks this string and if you choose to activate the changes, it
> calls the script with this string.


Somebody has removed the probe handling section of the script (it was
there in 8.2) and left in the # probe: true line.

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T.
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