Art Edwards wrote:
Actually, this was a fresh installation. I had been running Debian
before and had reformatted everything but /home.
Art Edwards
On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 09:31:44AM -0500, Robert Nichols wrote:
>Art Edwards wrote:
>
>>I dug a little deeper and found that the ifcfg-eth0 in default had the
>>wrong IP address--one that was actually in use. When I changed that value,
>>all started to work. I really don't know why the ifcfg-eth0 script in
>>
>>/etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
>>
>>is different from that in
>>
>>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
>>
>>In fact, I really don'tunderstand why there are two. Why not symbolic
>>links?
>
>Was this installation an upgrade? The FC5 installer creates only the
>one file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, and that appears to be
>sufficient. If you (re)configure with system-config-network, there
>will be two additional hard links to that same file:
>
> 3290919 ./sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> 3290919 ./sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
> 3290919 ./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
>
>It looks like you got a broken setup with some files left over
>from a previous installation.
The only other possibility that comes to mind is that you manually
edited the configuration and the editor you used did not properly
handle the multiple-linked file.
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