Running Red Hat 8.0 (2.4.18-14) on an old Acer I have keyed ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.1 to set my box's ip address for my small LAN. What additional command should I use to write that address permanently, so that I do not have to ifconfig each time I restart? I have read and reread O'Reilly's Running Linux and Learning Red Hat Linux; is there no process whereby the settings are written to the correct files for startup, or must I (using vi, for example) edit certain files myself?
As you've gathered from your reading, there is no *standard* procedure for doing this in Linux/Unix (except in terms too general to be of use). Each Linux distro has a different approach to automating this process, and I don't know which of them Red Hat uses.
As a general matter, there will be a script run by the init process that starts up networking. It may run the ifconfig command directly (as Slackware does, for instance) or by way of some external program (as Debian does, using the command "ifup -a", which in turn relies on the text file /etc/network/interfaces).
I waited awhile before responding to you in the hope that some Red Hat user here would give you the RH-specific answer. Perhaps someone still will. If not, you'll need to look through the init scripts on your system (even the locations of these scripts varies from distro to distro, but you can track them down by looking for the base script listed in /etc/inittab for single-user mode, then for the default runlevel) for the one that starts networking.
Some versions of RH have a setup interface that can be used to start networking in a way that will do the init-script editing for you. If yours doesn't include that, you will have to edit some file using vi (or your text editor of choice).
Sorry I cannot be more specific here ... as I say, you really need to hear back from someone else who uses RH 8.
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
