[ILUG] change server IP's

[Thomas Bridge]

At 14:29 08/03/2001 +0000, Niall O Broin wrote:
>On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:34:20PM +0000, John P . Looney wrote:
>
> >
> >  Check /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg*
> >
>
>As we're on that, can anyone defend this way of doing things ? When I came
>to Linux first this confused the f**k out of me.

Yes - its damn easy to change network settings without neccesitating a 
reboot.   Which is really useful when trying to add IP addresses remotely.

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo:1
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart

Of course, if you want to run a routing daemon under Linux, it might be 
different, but thats what I have Cisco's for so I can't comment.

Not that I've ever used SunOS, so I can't comment.

But the thing that really, really, really bugs me is the default sendmail 
installation (which I don't usually have running).   Which when it's 
connecting to remote servers goes

MAIL FROM: <user at localhost.localdomain>

Which my real mail servers anti spam filtering doesn't like.

Must make up a stock exim binary and conf for RH6.2.

T.