Who edits my ifcfg-eth0 ?

Timothy Murphy tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Wed Feb 21 02:19:07 UTC 2007


Matthew Saltzman wrote:

>>>>> Some program re-writes /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?
>>>>> when I re-boot.

> But before we diagnose the problem, we need to know exactly what fields
> are being reset.

The lines ESSID=... and KEY=... are removed,
which naturally prevents WiFi connection.

I don't see how any program (or programmer)
could think this would increase my chances of connecting.

What is possibly unusual about my setup
is that I have two Access Points, with different ESSIDs,
which are described in ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1.

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