I'm getting ready to build LFS using LiveCD-6.2-pre3. I want to
customize the livecd to connect to the internet, but that's a subject
for a different post.
When setting up to connect after booting the livecd, I followed the
instructions in the SVN version of "the Book," Chapter 7.12.1, which, as
a summary, creates the directory and file
/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0/ipv4
I have a static ip so I created ipv4-static. However, when I ran
'/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart'
I received the error message "ifconfig.eth0 is a directory."
I looked at the ifup scripts for both the livecd and the {,B}LFS system
on my pc and they BOTH contain the sequence:
# Collect a list of configuration files for our interface
if [ -n "${2}" ]; then
for file in [EMAIL PROTECTED] # All parameters except $1
do
FILES="${FILES} ${network_devices}/ifconfig.${1}/${file}"
done
elif [ -d "${network_devices}/ifconfig.${1}" ]; then
FILES=`echo ${network_devices}/ifconfig.${1}/*`
else
FILES="${network_devices}/ifconfig.${1}"
fi
I'm fairly weak on positional variables especially the @#$1. But I
think this sequence looks for ifconfig.eth0 as either a file or directory.
As soon as I removed the ifconfig.eth0 directory and copied the
ipv4-static file to
/etc/sysconfig/network-devices/ifconfig.eth0 (note that it's a file now)
I could restart the network and connect to the internet from the
livecd. Since the system on my PC is setup as desribed in the LFS book
Chapter 12 and works, I don't understand the difference between the two
setups. Since I don't have any other services besides the internet for
my PC, I don't know if this is the difference or not. I would
appreciate an explanation if anyone is willing.
Thanks,
Dan
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