Bug 88353 - network rc.d script should look harder for devices to start
Summary: network rc.d script should look harder for devices to start
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-04-09 11:18 UTC by Michael Young
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:35 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2003-06-23 16:17:39 UTC
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Description Michael Young 2003-04-09 11:18:18 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The network script in /etc/rc.d/init.d gets the list of devices to try to start
from /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. However the ifup script that actually
starts the device looks in other places first (as in bug 82246 ). This means
that for every device you want started automatically, there has to be a file
such as ifcfg-eth0 in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts even if this file isn't
actually used to configure the device, which at the least is highly confusing
behaviour.
What should happen is that the network script should look for interfaces in the
same places as ifup, and in the same order.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-06-23 16:17:39 UTC 
Actually, the excessive searching in ifup was removed, so they match again now.
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