On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:10 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > >>> dmaned - it is enough to enter the MAC at one place >>> it does not matter that you have to look at udev and ifcfg >>> the point is you do NOT need to put the MAC in both >> >> And my point is that once the machine has booted and created the udev >> rule file, it will also have created matching MAC entries in the >> ifcfg-* files. It is as much work to remove them > > uhm why they are existing at all? > do you create your ifcfg-files with GUI crap? No, it is anaconda or kudzu magic that happens before you would get to a GUI even if you used one. Delete your copies on a box where you have console access (or at least dchp) and see what you get after a reboot. > there where i work they do not exist since years > and new machines are not installed from zero, they > are cloned with existing configs and symlinks to > the udev-rules in /root/ If the files exist and MACs are correct they normally don't change - but I'm not quite sure what triggers kudzu to change things. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com