[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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