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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080124/53d9da21/attachment-0005.sig>