Tim Burke (tburke) said: > > Hi Dan & Bill, > > > > I just did a `yum update` from RHEL5.1 -> 5.2 beta. After doing that my > > wireless didn't just magically work. > > > > Looked to me that the network services didn't preserve the prior run level > > enablement: > > > > [root@localhost ~]# chkconfig --list | grep -i network > > NetworkManager 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > NetworkManagerDispatcher 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off > > 5:off 6:off > > network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > > > [root@localhost ~]# chkconfig network off > > [root@localhost ~]# chkconfig NetworkManagerDispatcher on > > followed by reboot corrected this. > > > > Question: is this the expected behavior? Or should it have preserved what > > run level settings were previously in effect prior to the update? Assuming they were disabled with 'chkconfig ... off' and not 'chkconfig --del ...', yes. Bill
Tim Burke (tburke) said: > > I would imagine that if all `yum update` does is remove the old pkg and put > > in a new one, that these manual config changes I did would be lost and the > > default behavior is restored. Is that correct? I wasn't sure if there was > > any "smarts" in the update process to preserve config settings. on/off state should not be changed on package updates, assuming it's 'off' as opposed to 'not set up'. Bill
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