Hi All,
Thanks for all your replies! That's Great!
Melinda ;)
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, DaZZa wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Melinda Taylor wrote:
>
> > I don't want my network interface to be activated at boot time,
> > but when I do want to activate it, is there an easier way to
> > do it rather than su-ing, then opening up the control-panel
> > and using the netcfg part, clicking on interfaces and activate?
> >
> > I presume this finally step when you press 'activate' is just
> > executing a script of some kind.....does anyone know what
> > it is? How this is done without the control panel and
> > can a user do it?
>
> Depends on your distribution.
>
> To start/stop my card, I do
>
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start {stop}
>
> You could link this file to something in your root home directory, or even
> better alias it to a command that _doesn't_ exist - soemthing like this
>
> alias startnet='/etc/rc.d/init/d/network start'
> alias stopnet='/etc/rc.d/init/d/network stop'
>
> Then all you gotta type is "startnet" or "stopnet".
>
> Of course, you'll have to track your own scripts down - but /etc/rc.d is a
> good place to start.
>
> I run Redhat, BTW, for these commands to work.
>
> DaZZa
>
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