Bug 70714 - network initscript has wrong error handling
Summary: network initscript has wrong error handling
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 70715 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-04 14:36 UTC by Peter van Egdom
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:29 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-09-29 20:11:54 UTC
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Description Peter van Egdom 2002-08-04 14:36:22 UTC
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Description of problem:
Typing "network start" as a normal user :

Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:  ifcfg-lo is not a normal file
Users cannot control this device.
                                                           [FAILED]
Bringing up interface eth0:  Users cannot control this device.
                                                           [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/network': Toegang geweigerd


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. "network start" as normal user
2.
3.
	

Actual Results:
Setting network parameters:                                [  OK  ]
Bringing up loopback interface:  ifcfg-lo is not a normal file
Users cannot control this device.
                                                           [FAILED]
Bringing up interface eth0:  Users cannot control this device.
                                                           [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/network': Toegang geweigerd


Expected Results:
Setting network parameters:                                [FAILED]
Bringing up loopback interface:  ifcfg-lo is not a normal file
Users cannot control this device.
                                                           [FAILED]
Bringing up interface eth0:  Users cannot control this device.
                                                           [FAILED]
touch: creating `/var/lock/subsys/network': Toegang geweigerd


Additional info:

Source RPM: initscripts-6.88-1.src.rpm

Comment 1 Peter van Egdom 2002-08-04 15:37:48 UTC
*** Bug 70715 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Peter van Egdom 2002-11-01 22:21:12 UTC
Still occurs in Red Hat Linux 8.0.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2005-09-29 20:11:54 UTC
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.


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