Who edits my ifcfg-eth0 ?

Matthew Saltzman mjs at ces.clemson.edu
Mon Feb 19 16:46:39 UTC 2007


On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Manuel Arostegui Ramirez wrote:

> El Lunes, 19 de Febrero de 2007 13:36, Timothy Murphy escribió:
>> Some program re-writes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?
>> when I re-boot.
>> (I'm running FC-6.)
>>
>> Does anyone know what program this is?
>> And if it can be persuaded to desist?
>>
>> In principle, I don't think any program
>> should modify config files without at least informing the user.
>
> Probably you have dhcp client running on your system

I don't think the DHCP client changes anything in 
/etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0.  It may set the contents of /etc/resolv.conf.

What exactly is getting changed?

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