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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2005 20:44:10
Message-Id: 20051024202948.GA28218@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0 by "Eric S. Johansson"
1 On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:34:25PM -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote:
2 > Renat Golubchyk wrote:
3 > >On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 15:06:26 -0400 "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@××××××.org>
4 > >wrote:
5 > >>The problem was /etc/init.d/net.eth0 and /etc/init.d/net.lo were the
6 > >>same. The net.eth0 code was overwritten with the lo code.
7 > >>
8 > >>This happened on two machines and I'm wondering how it happened? Did
9 > >>something go wrong in the emerge process? There's no sign of any
10 > >>attackers.
11 > >
12 > >They are always the same since net.eth0 (and all other net.<interface>)
13 > >is a symlink to net.lo.
14 >
15 > then that's what broke. net.lo looks like it should and my net.eth0
16 > looks like:
17 >
18
19 Is net.eth0 a symlink to net.lo? If not, remove net.eth0 and symlink
20 it to net.lo.
21
22 If net.eth0 is already a symlink, then something is seriously wrong,
23 since the file you just showed us was definitely not the 2005.1 one.
24
25 W
26 --
27 AlexMc: Physics? Physics is EZ..
28 M: The Langrangian is self evident.
29 AlexMc: Well... not that easy.
30 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 2 days, 12:37
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Re: [gentoo-user] curious thing with net.eth0 "Eric S. Johansson" <esj@××××××.org>