> > under Interfaces, I'm told that eth0 is
> > and "unmanaged device." I can't edit such unmanaged devices in netcfg.
> > What does this mean, that netcfg is not owner of the network
> > configuration files?
>
> Quite possably it does mean that, root has to configure interfaces of such
> caliber.
Richard,
Thanks for the response. I realize that root should run netcfg, and
assume I su'd to become root before doing so, but perhaps not, and
perhaps this is the penalty one pays in nefcfg for negligence ;-)
> Redhat defines network configuration in /etc/sysconfig/network.
Well, my comment was because I was fairly confident the network file
is set up right.
> You could edit all the lines into /etc/rc.d/rc.local as well, then it will
> get started at bootime untill you lrean more about how redhat jumps from
> one /etc/rc dir to another during bootime.
Yes, I could do that, although runing the commands as I'm doing now
does not let me get lazy and forget there is a problem ;-)
Thanks for the helpful reply.
Haines
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