* Steven Pritchard [08/07/2007 22:09] :
Isn't that just supposed to be checking if networking is enabled at all? If that is "no", presumably we don't even have the loopback interface up.
It's sourced from /etc/sysconfig/network so the question being answered is "Does the box sysadmin want networking to be started on boot ?".
Seems a bit redundant with "chkconfig network off" to me but checking it to see if network-related services should be started on boot sounds OK. Probably best to check with "/etc/init.d/network status", though.
Emmanuel