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 don't know but I always disable kudzu after initial install on machines that don't change hardware because I've had similar things happen to me in pre-fedora redhat. I leave it on my laptop though.