Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 103310
Docs incorrectly say netprofiles can't be set at boot time
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:57:13 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4; MultiZilla v1.4.0.4A) Gecko/20030630 Description of problem: Really a documentation issue: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-9-Manual/custom-guide/s1-network-profiles.html says that "A profile cannot be activated at boot time": it can and this proves very useful once I realised! grep netprofile /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit shows that all the hooks for passing netprofile= via grub are there as the boot process correctly read /proc/cmdline. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up a new network profile 2. Pass netprofile=<new profile name> via grub.conf 3. Boot into the new profile Actual Results: It works. Expected Results: It should have worked. The documentation denies this. Additional info:
Thanks for the information. I'll try it out. I said that because when I asked the developer about it, he told me that you couldn't activate them at boot time.
A docs errata for this should appear in less than an hour on http://www.redhat.com/docs/errata/RHL-9-Manual/.