On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Eric Jahn wrote:
> thank you for the help, this makes sense. when I run "/etc/init.d/networking
> restart" I get the message "reconfiguring network interfaces: cat:
> /var/run/dhclient.pid: no such file or directory done" What's the
> easiest way to tell the system to use "dhclient eth0" at boot, and are there
> reasons not to use pump?
On my system (started life as RedHat 7.2), there's a file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, which you change so it reads
BOOTPROTO=static
not
BOOTPROTO=DHCP
Parse /sbin/ifup (or whatever you use to bring an interface up... on
Gentoo you modify /etc/conf.d/net, for instance) if in doubt.
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