I'm having a puzzling problem with system-config-network-cmd in CentOS 6.4. I have a workstation with a number of different grub boot configurations (a spare for a set of workstations, basically), each of which has a parameter MYHOST=<hostname>, and I am using system-config-network-cmd to set the boot configuration during the network process (using a small custom system service that runs just before network startup, reads the configuration name from /proc/cmdline and calls "system-config-network-cmd -p <configname>").
I have properly disabled NetworkManager, and have /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices and .../profiles set up correctly AFAIK (it was all copied from a CentOS 5 machine, and the hand links were maintained properly as needed; such a PITA that they got rid of the very nice GUI for this).
This all works great, EXCEPT that if the machine is booted a fixed-IP profile, the the DHCP ifcfg file also winds up in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. So, if I have in profiles/dhcp/ifcfg-eth0_dhcp (with a hardlink in devices/, of course):
TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=<MAC redacted> BOOTPROTO=dhcp ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes
and in profiles/fixed/ifcfg-eth0_fixed
GATEWAY=x.y.z.1 TYPE=Ethernet DEVICE=eth0 HWADDR=<MAC redacted> BOOTPROTO=none NETMASK=255.255.255.0 IPADDR=x.y.z.n ONBOOT=yes USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes
If I boot into fixed, I find that ifcfg-eth0_dhcp is also in network-scripts, and it tries to activate this interface, even though this interface is NOT in profiles/fixed in any way! This worked great in CentOS 5, so I think I know what I'm doing here? For now, I am "fixing" the issue by running a find on network-scripts to remove inappropriate files after running systme-config-network-cmd, but that is complete cheese, of course. Is there something missing from ifcfg-eth0_dhcp that is confusing the system-config-network-cmd script? Is there any documentation on this that's helpful? And is there simply a better way to do this that I've missed?
Thanks, -G. -- Glenn Eychaner (geychaner@lco.cl) Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory