On 8/20/2010 11:26 AM, Whit Blauvelt wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 11:21:49AM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > >> In some cases I've tried to edit in the right values but as the machine >> came up it renamed all of the ifcfg-eth? files with a .bak extension and >> created new ones using dhcp. > > Since you're bringing that up - I've seen it too - what does that and how do > we drive a stake through its heart? Yes, if anyone knows where this is documented, please point it out. I think it is extremely important to know that you can revive your backups on replacement hardware and so far this seems mostly like black magic. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com