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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Joel Sinor wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 08:57:05 -0700
> Jason Flatt <jason AT flattfamily.com> wrote:
>
> <snip>
> > > > Network: I setup the network from the installer, but it did not
> > > > save the information to /etc/sysconfig/network, I only have
> > > > 'lo.dev' in there, but it did install dhcpcd as I asked.
> > >
> > > Same here.
> > >
> >
> > That has been that way for a long time.  I'm surprised no one has
> > noticed it before now.  I don't think it's an ISO thing, however,
> > 'cause it also happens when the relevant net spell gets re-cast or
> > updated.
>
> It was noticed before.. I am not sure if there was a bug for it.  I
> never got round to figuring out why it happens.  I blamed it on not
> using modules for my networking at the time...
>

The installer is still trying to sedit the /etc/init.d/networking.sh
script to set the network settings. I'm assuming this has been broken
since we switched to the /etc/sysconfig/network setup. A patch against the
installer is in bugzilla now and will hopefully get tested soon.


-casey