: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.

[Yang Xiao]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keven Ring [mailto:keven at mitre.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: : [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.
> 
> 
> 
> >Hi,
> >Since you are new to Linux, you might want to run 
> system-config-network 
> >and select the NIC that is configured with DHCP, configure 
> the hostname 
> >manually, and save
> >
> Excellent Advice
> 
> > and reboot.
> >  
> >
> 
> <rant>
> 
> Why oh Why do we have to suggest to people that rebooting 
> will take care 
> of everything.
> 
> Folks, just because some major OS must reboot for anything to take 
> effect, does not mean that this is true of Unix in general, 
> to include 
> Linux.
> 
> Why I shutdown/reboot unix boxes:
> 1) I have a new kernel
> 2) The kernel crashed (ok, this, admitted doesn't happen)
> 3) Something locked the machine up (kernel, driver, etc)
> 4) Power/Hardware Failure
> 5) I take my laptop home
> 6) I have to run some other OS
> 
> Unix machines are generally *not* SINGLE USER MACHINES (there are 
> exceptions, of course!).
> 
> IMO, rebooting in most other circumstances (changing network config, 
> etc) means that you just don't know how to solve the problem without 
> rebooting.  Personally, I would rather find the "correct, 
> intended" way 
> to solve the problem, rather than resorting to reboots.  In 
> the "olden 
> days", it could take HOURS for a system to reboot.....  It wasn't 
> something you did for fun...
> 
> In the case of a network configuration change, try the 
> following as root 
> (or sudo, if you prefer)
> service network stop
> service network start
> 
> or, if you don't like to type,
> service network restart
> 
> If you only want to recycle your ethernet hostname,
> ifdown eth0
> ifup eth0
> 
> should work fine.  (You may need to restart X, but that is 
> for entirely 
> different reasons).
> 
> 
> If you get into the mentality of rebooting like other OS's, then you 
> might as well reboot whenever you install/update something via 
> apt/yum/rpm, or when you compile something, etc.
> 
> Perhaps a new menu item in Linux, similar to that in Wine/Crossover 
> Office: Simulate Reboot
> 
> </rant>
> 
Wow, flames.
You are right, service network restart should work.

Yang