Okay. I figured out an easy way to do this. I stuck this in my /etc/init.d/rc, /etc/init.d/rcS (and /etc/profile) files:
. /etc/myenv Putting a "." (period) was necessary otherwise the variables don't export to the proceeding scripts. Why this is important, I don't know, still learning Linux. myenv has: export varslikethis="10.0.0.1" Is there an easier way? Such as: varslikethis="10.0.0.1" ... and so on ... export all (??) /etc/network/interfaces does not support variables, only literals, so it seems(?). I had to remove some of my interface settings (eth0, eth1, etc) from there. Then I created a (basic) ifsetup script then modified /etc/init.d/networking to call it. I am currently using networking/interfaces to configure my dhcp interface since I don't yet know how to do this with "ip link set...". I also created my first custom package that allows easy maintenance of the files I work with most. This gets more interesting as I go. Thanks to everyone. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html