: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.
Keven Ring
keven at mitre.org
Wed May 19 15:38:34 UTC 2004
>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>
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