Thanks, I will give that a try. On 2/21/20, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> wrote: > On 2020-02-21, Raymond, David <david.raym...@nmt.edu> wrote: >> I have a problem when I have two wifi services available, say, a hotel >> wifi and my cellphone hotspot. Suppose I put the hotel wifi in my >> hostname.xxx file and run sh /etc/netstart and I don't like the >> results. Removing the hotel wifi from the hostname file, replacing it >> with my hotspot wifi, and rerunning sh /etc/netstart results in the >> computer trying to connect with the hotel wifi again, even though this >> connection is no longer in the hostname file. If I then reboot the >> computer and rerun sh /etc/netstart, it connects with the hotspot wifi >> as desired. >> >> My question is whether there is a way to purge the non-desired wifi >> connection without rebooting the computer. >> > > netstart doesn't wipe existing config, it only runs through line by > line and adds to it. > > Guessing you use "join" for the wifi network config? > > You can either run "ifconfig xxx -join network" at the command line > to remove just that network, or you can add "-joinlist" to the top of > hostname.xxx if you just want it to clear and recreate the whole list. > > >
-- David J. Raymond david.raym...@nmt.edu http://physics.nmt.edu/~raymond
