eth0 not working

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:43 -0400, taharka wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 08:58 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:43 -0400, Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote:
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why but when I used the command below, I was logged
> > > in as one of the users of the machine and the command failed.  Then I
> > > logged in as root and reissued the command.  It worked fine.  I guess
> > > you have to be logged in as root in order for the eth0 to work.  But I
> > > have not tried the same thing using one of the user accounts created
> > > on the system.  
> > > 
> > > Can someone please explain this?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > 
> > > C
I have seen the above snippet in several messages. What command below
are we talking about. ifup eth0 for example starts eth0. In the
file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 it says whether any user
can issue the command or only root.