[ILUG] bloody redhat network init scripts (and regex's)

[kevin lyda]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:56:46PM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, kevin lyda wrote:
> > of the file name, not the device.  why not just change the file name?
> ah... obvious yes, and that is what i did initially (have a look in
> network-scripts/ on our firewall)
> 
> however however however... yes: fongdongling redhat init scripts
> 
> some scripts use ifcfg-${DEVICE}, ie ifup, so renaming the ifcfg-*
> scripts breaks that.

no it doesn't.  if i have a file called

    /etc/syscon.../icfg-0000000DO-ME-FIRST-BABY

and it contains:

    DEVICE=eth0
    USERCTL=no
    ONBOOT=no
    BOOTPROTO=dhcp
    BROADCAST=
    NETWORK=
    NETMASK=
    IPADDR=

the command

    ifup 0000000DO-ME-FIRST-BABY

will bring up eth0.

> if only...

...you actually tested what i typed (ignore the spurious error message
emitted by source_config in network-functions).

so let's say you have device alice0 which depends on device bob0.
create the following files (all in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts):

    ifcfg-bob0		- bob's config
    ifcfg-bob0alice0	- alice's config
    ifcfg-alice0	- alice's config with ONBOOT=no

this way ifup and ifdown on alice0 will work and bob0 will come up
before alice0.

kevin

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