Bug 90231 - ifup-aliases doesn't honor ONBOOT
Summary: ifup-aliases doesn't honor ONBOOT
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: initscripts
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Whiteboard:
: 238578 (view as bug list)
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2003-05-05 19:08 UTC by Daniel Wittenberg
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2003-05-05 19:29:37 UTC
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Description Daniel Wittenberg 2003-05-05 19:08:17 UTC 
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Description of problem:
If you add an aliases and set ONBOOT=no to keep it from being active right now
it gets ignores by ifup-aliases and gets brought up anyway.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.14-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Add alias with ONBOOT=no
2.ifup <device>
3.
    

Additional info:
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2003-05-05 19:29:37 UTC 
You can set ONPARENT for aliases.
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2007-05-01 16:48:02 UTC 
*** Bug 238578 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Timothy 2007-05-01 17:07:06 UTC 
ONPARENT is obscure, other packages such as carp state you should set ONBOOT.

I can see occasions where you you would want ONPARENT=yes and ONBOOT=no to bring
the interface up at non-boot time when you want to restart the parent.
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