linux IP address (change)
Mikkel L. Ellertson
mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Thu Aug 24 00:57:55 UTC 2006
Les Mikesell wrote:
>> The howto is indeed wrong I think you'll find. ifconfig does not go and
>> look down /etc/sysconfig.
>
> It just omits the fact that the fedora/RH way of doing things is to
> use the ifup and ifdown scripts to gather the saved configuration.
> # man ifup
> No manual entry for ifup
> oops...
> I guess we can't say RTFM here.
>
> Also no one has mentioned the circumstances in which the values from
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default are used instead of the
> ones you expect. Probably because they can't find the documentation
> about that either... Does anyone know what makes those files and what
> triggers their use?
>
Well, even though there is not a man page for ifup, the scripts are
documented as part of the initscripts package. Read the
sysconfig.txt file in the
/usr/share/doc/initscripts-<version>/directory. Maybe we need a man
page pointing people to that file?
Mikkel
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