[CentOS] Why Kudzu, Why?
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Thu Jan 24 03:02:29 UTC 2008
Michael Semcheski wrote:
> So I have a CentOS 5 machine, which I recently did a 'yum update' on.
> Everything went fine, but I rebooted as a precaution (just to confront
> any problems which might arise the first time after an update).
>
> And sure enough, when the machine came back up, the network didn't
> work. Luckilly, someone said (and I quote) 'mv
> /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0.bak
> /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and blame kudzu'...
>
> So, what did I do wrong, or what should I have done differently?
> What's the reasoning behind this? I'll bet there is some rationale,
> and I'd like to understand it.
>
I'd probably have diff'd the files before overwriting to see wtf was hosed.
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