: [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.
Yang Xiao
yxiao at ohpp.com
Wed May 19 15:41:48 UTC 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Keven Ring [mailto:keven at mitre.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2004 11:39 AM
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
> Subject: Re: : [ FC2 ] ::.. NON-CRITICAL config question.
>
>
>
> >Hi,
> >Since you are new to Linux, you might want to run
> system-config-network
> >and select the NIC that is configured with DHCP, configure
> the hostname
> >manually, and save
> >
> Excellent Advice
>
> > and reboot.
> >
> >
>
> <rant>
>
> Why oh Why do we have to suggest to people that rebooting
> will take care
> of everything.
>
> Folks, just because some major OS must reboot for anything to take
> effect, does not mean that this is true of Unix in general,
> to include
> Linux.
>
> Why I shutdown/reboot unix boxes:
> 1) I have a new kernel
> 2) The kernel crashed (ok, this, admitted doesn't happen)
> 3) Something locked the machine up (kernel, driver, etc)
> 4) Power/Hardware Failure
> 5) I take my laptop home
> 6) I have to run some other OS
>
> Unix machines are generally *not* SINGLE USER MACHINES (there are
> exceptions, of course!).
>
> IMO, rebooting in most other circumstances (changing network config,
> etc) means that you just don't know how to solve the problem without
> rebooting. Personally, I would rather find the "correct,
> intended" way
> to solve the problem, rather than resorting to reboots. In
> the "olden
> days", it could take HOURS for a system to reboot..... It wasn't
> something you did for fun...
>
> In the case of a network configuration change, try the
> following as root
> (or sudo, if you prefer)
> service network stop
> service network start
>
> or, if you don't like to type,
> service network restart
>
> If you only want to recycle your ethernet hostname,
> ifdown eth0
> ifup eth0
>
> should work fine. (You may need to restart X, but that is
> for entirely
> different reasons).
>
>
> If you get into the mentality of rebooting like other OS's, then you
> might as well reboot whenever you install/update something via
> apt/yum/rpm, or when you compile something, etc.
>
> Perhaps a new menu item in Linux, similar to that in Wine/Crossover
> Office: Simulate Reboot
>
> </rant>
>
Wow, flames.
You are right, service network restart should work.
Yang
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