From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311 Description of problem: Configuring network interfaces using redhat-config-network emits lines like this ONBOOT='no' into the generated ifcfg-* files. Note that it's using the ' characters as brackets aroung the variable's value! When /etc/rc.d/init.d/network is egrep'ing through those ifcfg-* files during boot, it's however searching for "ONBOOT=\"?[Nn][Oo]\"?" See the problem? The regex is wrong, in that it won't find the pattern in the files generated by redhat-config-network. The regex should be this instead: "ONBOOT=['\"]?[Nn][Oo]['\"]?" This will successfully find the following patterns: ONBOOT=no ONBOOT='no' ONBOOT="NO" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): initscripts-6.65-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Start redhat-config-network and configure a network device to *not* load ONBOOT 2.Save changes and reboot 3.Watch the messages and you'll see that the i/f _will_ be started! Actual Results: The interface will be started. Expected Results: The interface should not be started, of course. Additional info:
The interface will not actually be started because 'boot' is passed to ifup, which will do the right thing. It's just a weird display issue.
Closing bugs on older, no longer supported, releases. Apologies for any lack of response. If this persists on a current release, such as Fedora Core 4, please open a new bug.