[CentOS] Why Kudzu, Why?
Garrick Staples
garrick at usc.edu
Thu Jan 24 23:06:49 UTC 2008
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 09:39:09PM -0500, Michael Semcheski alleged:
> 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.
The answer to your question lies in /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit runs /usr/sbin/system-config-network-cmd to setup the
correct network profile. But I think the profile code can get triggered in
kudzu too.
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