[TriLUG] Some Newbie Linux Questions

[Jason Tower]

On Monday 30 December 2002 21:43, al johnson wrote:
> OK, I've got several possibilities, so many that perhaps a little
> explanation on my part is required. While I don't have a high-speed
> internet connection, I do have a very close friend who does. If I needed to
> use it, e.g. to update my Linux system files, all I would have to do is
> give him a call and go over to his home, plug in and do whatever I need to
> do. I update my Mac this very same way. So what I suppose I need is a
> simple way to switch the eth0 out of the boot sequence or just switch it
> off, and a simple way to switch it back on whenever I need to do a lot of
> updates. That's why I wanted to know how to get it switched back on.
>      As far as Mandrake vs. Red Hat is concerned,  I do know that while
> there are strong similarities there are also differences. So many that that
> you have to be careful with your RPM files because some Red Hat RPMs (or so
> I'm told by a reliable source) can ruin a Mandrake installation.  For those
> which are different you have to go to the Mandrake site.
>      Incidentally, I apologize to the group for writing so much on just
> this single topic. But perhaps if anyone else has this problem in the
> future they will know what to do.
> Happy New Year Everyone!!---Al Johnson.
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> On Monday 30 December 2002 05:45 pm, you wrote:
> > I don't know Mandrake, but if it's like Red Hat, then "service network
> > stop" *will* drop the modem connection.  Oh, and the assumption is that
> > all these commands are issued by the root account.
> >
> > If this were a Red Hat system of modestly recent (>=5.2?) publication,
> > then you could disable the (first) ethernet adapter by
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> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network stop # all network services halted
> > cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> > mv ifcfg-eth0 DISABLE_IFCFG-ETH0 # prevent start from affecting eth0
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network start
> >
> > To re-enable the first ethernet adapter,
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> > cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
> > mv DISABLE_IFCFG-ETH0 ifcfg-eth0
> > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
> >
> >      - Stephen
> >
> > Michael Thompson wrote:
> > >>I'm assuming this will not affect my modem connection, and also that
> > >> there must be a corresponding command to switch it back on? I always
> > >> like to know what to do cancel any command I might enter on the
> > >> Terminal. With computers you never know what will happen whenever you
> > >> do anything on them.
> > >
> > > 'service network start'  will start your network services again,
> > > 'chkconfig network on'  will enable it at boot again...  (for run
> > > levels 3, 4, and 5, if I am not mistaken...
> > >
> > > HTH!
> > >
> > > --Michael Thompson
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