Gentoo Archives: gentoo-desktop

From: Justin Denick <justin.denick@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-desktop@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Re: net.eth0 problem
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2007 13:05:32
Message-Id: 81e08d920701050502t74ced442wef05de4251bc1f7f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-desktop] Re: net.eth0 problem by Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>
1 You should set your CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc {..}" in your make.conf file. This
2 way when a configuration file is updated the 'new' file will be named
3 ._cfg{filename} and running etc-update will find and display all of the
4 files for which there is an update.
5
6 On 1/5/07, Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote:
7 >
8 > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> posted
9 > 20070105074920.49611d10@××××××××××××××××××.uk, excerpted below, on Fri,
10 > 05 Jan 2007 07:49:20 +0000:
11 >
12 > > On Fri, 5 Jan 2007 08:22:31 +0100, Jean-Marc Beaune wrote:
13 > >
14 > >> Do you still have dhcpcd at the default runlevel?
15 > >
16 > > You only need that to run a DHCP server. Sending of DHCP requests is
17 > > controlled by /etc/conf.d/net.
18 >
19 > Only dhcpcd = DHCP-client-daemon -- it doesn't even HAVE a DHCP server to
20 > run, so it wouldn't run one. Of course, that means it doesn't have a
21 > service to run either, so there's no dhcpcd to /be/ at the default (or any
22 > other) runlevel.
23 >
24 > You are correct in what controls dhcpcd and sending and getting replies
25 > to DHCP requests, tho, the net service scripts, configured with
26 > /etc/conf.d/net.
27 >
28 > --
29 > Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs.
30 > "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
31 > and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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