On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:27:27PM -0600, Warren Young wrote:
Isn’t the correct answer “yes” for every single file under that directory?
If it were otherwise, you’d have services continually restarting to look for updated settings. Then because of all the resulting inadvertent lock-outs and other failures, you’d have big block comments at the top of those files telling you not to save the file until you’re sure you want those settings applied immediately.
You say that, but NetworkManager's default setting used to be to monitor the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and restart the network interfaces when you changed the ifcfg-* files. Thankfully, now you need to set 'monitor-connection-files=true' in the NetworkManager.conf to get that 'feature'.
Many times I'd change an IP in the file with vi, save out of muscle memory before I realize what I've done.