On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 03:01:05PM -0500, will trillich ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:26:47PM -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > Could someone set me straight on the distinction between > > /etc/init.d/network and the definition files under /etc/network: > > interfaces, options, and spoof-protect. > > > > We've got a balky server which doesn't like coming on-line (and > > occasionally likes going off) when it boots. I suspect multiple network > > config upfsckage. > > > > Docs I've been able to find are less than crystal on the distinction > > between these files. > > what i've seen says that > /etc/init.d/* are SCRIPTS that are run when entering various > runlevels (rcS at startup, rc2 when entering runlevel 2...) > and > /etc/network/* > are the CONFIGURATION files for various network facilities. > > % man interfaces > will tell you about the /etc/network/interfaces file.
I'd pretty much worked that much out.
The standard (or old-style) /etc/init.d/network script isn't a typical
init.d script, however. It doesn't have the typical start | stop |
reload | restart | status switches.
What /etc/init.d/network *does* say is:
# In new Debian installations, this file is deprecated in favour of
# the ifup/ifdown commands (invoked from /etc/init.d/networking),
# which can be configured from the file /etc/network/interfaces.
So -- should I configure /etc/network/interfaces, delete
/etc/init.d/network, and pray everything works from
/etc/init.d/networking?
That seems to be the plan.
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