On Tue, May 09, 2017 at 02:27:27PM -0600, Warren Young wrote: > Isn’t the correct answer “yes” for every single file under that > directory? > > If it were otherwise, you’d have services continually restarting to > look for updated settings. Then because of all the resulting > inadvertent lock-outs and other failures, you’d have big block > comments at the top of those files telling you not to save the file > until you’re sure you want those settings applied immediately. You say that, but NetworkManager's default setting used to be to monitor the files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ and restart the network interfaces when you changed the ifcfg-* files. Thankfully, now you need to set 'monitor-connection-files=true' in the NetworkManager.conf to get that 'feature'. Many times I'd change an IP in the file with vi, save out of muscle memory before I realize what I've done. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>