[PLUG] Starting daemons in a running Slackware system

Kenneth G. Stephens kens at kens.cad2cam.com
Sun Oct 19 12:12:01 UTC 2003


On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 11:54, Russell Senior wrote:
> >>>>> "Rich" == Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> writes:
> 
> Rich>   Many of the rc.modules can be explicitly stopped, started and
> Rich> restarted a la Red Hat, but I see nothing for taking the network
> Rich> down and up. I have found it necessary to do this when one host
> Rich> is powered down for maintenance (or when power goes off in the
> Rich> neighborhood). The network seems to need this manual
> Rich> intervention to resync and work well again.
> 
> I am still confused about why this is necessary.  You said something
> at the clinic that you were cross-mounting NFS.  If that's all that is
> being sync'd, then just an /etc/mumble/nfsd restart is all that should
> be needed.  I don't understand what else one machine would depend on
> the other for.  
> 
> -- 
> Russell Senior         ``shtal latta wos ba padre u prett tu nashtonfi
> seniorr at aracnet.com      mrlosh''  -- Bashgali Kafir for ``If you have
>                          had diarrhoea many days you will surely die.''
Being RedHat centric I am not sure what startup routines you use for
your distribution, but you can fall back on ifconfig.  This is the basic
network configuration tool.  ifconfig <interface> up <ipaddress> netmask
<netmask>

Ken
CAD2CAM.COM





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