From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020721 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
*** Bug 70715 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Still occurs in Red Hat Linux 8.0.
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.