On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 14:08 -0500, Dale Worley wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 09:44 -0500, Scott Lawrence wrote: > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 14:11 -0500, Kevin Thorley wrote: > > > On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 13:28 -0500, Kathleen Eccles wrote: > > > > Has anyone seen this behavior? > > > > Revision: 14720 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Failed to read configuration for │ > > > > > > > > │ /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 │ > > > > > > > > │ > > > > Enter network interface settings for this system: > > > > > > Yes, I believe it is because you are using DHCP. Just enter the values > > > manually and all should be fine > > > > See > > http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev/msg16146.html > > > > for why this was done. > > There are two difficulties with the present situation: > > The major one is that to the naive reader, the message seems to imply > that the script could not read /etc/.../ifcfg-eth0. This is confusing, > because the file is present and readable. It would help greatly if the > message pointed out that it could not find the IP address and netmask in > the file.
fair point... I'm making some other changes in there now, I'll try to improve that > The minor one is that it seems to be an unfriendly interface to not be > able to find and read the IP address and netmask if eth0 is configured > by DHCP (which it might well be in many enterprise situations). It is > also more error-prone to have users manually enter the address than it > would be to query the system. But in fact we cannot (based on actual installation experience) assume either that the system is connected to the network at setup time, or that any network it is connected to is the one it will eventually be run on. Some installers prefer to do initial setup in a lab environment that may not even be at the customer site. _______________________________________________ sipx-dev mailing list [email protected] List Archive: http://list.sipfoundry.org/archive/sipx-dev Unsubscribe: http://list.sipfoundry.org/mailman/listinfo/sipx-dev
