http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6112
------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2003-09-10 16:51 ------- The second solution would be better, since it would also solve the problem where PCMCIA devices (which are now correctly not started at boot, so they are started by PCMCIA instead, avoiding the error message before PCMCIA is started) are not restarted by 'service network restart'. When restarting the network, one expects all devices that were running before to be running after ... -- Configure bugmail: http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. ------- Reminder: ------- assigned_to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] status: UNCONFIRMED creation_date: description: description: ========= "service network restart" shut down net interfaces that do not have ON_BOOT=yes in / etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/icfg-<INTF> but does not restart them due to the ON_BOOT filter: if LANGUAGE=C LC_ALL=C egrep -q -L "^ONBOOT=['\"]?[Nn][Oo]['\"]?" ifcfg-$i; then # this loads the module, to preserve ordering is_available $i continue fi suggestion: ========= make start() and stop() out of case/esac code and make restart state call "start();stop();;" then: - either add a parameter to start() that tell it we're not at boot and really want all interfaces to come up - or get the list of active interfaces before stoping them and pass it again to start()