On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, John J. Donohue wrote:
>On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David C. Winters wrote:
>> started downloading the image onto a batch of machines at a time.  Ghost 
>> does a bit-by-bit copy, so I have to manually reset all of the pertinent
>                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> network information.  I modified
>> 
>> /etc/HOSTNAME
>> /etc/sysconfig/network
>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>I found that under 4.2, if I modified the ifcfg scripts with an editor that
>left a backup file with a name that began with the old name (i.e.,
>ifcfg-eth0 & ifcfg-eth0~), that it would run ALL the scripts in directory
>order. Hence, it would run ifcfg-eth0~ last, putting the old setup info into
>my network config. Delete any backup files, or rename them so that they
>don't begin with 'ifcfg'.

That was it.  I used GNU Emacs to modify the files, winding up with filename
and filename~.  Deleted the "~" copies and all's well.  THanks.


D.

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