startup

[hawk87]

i want to set the ip and mac address on the start up....
so i can prevent changing it everytime...

upon learning from web i came to know i need to edit the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file...

i have changed it to...

#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.

touch /var/lock/subsys/local
ifconfig eth0 xx.xx.xx.xx netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast xx.xx.xx.xx
ifconfig eth0 hw ether xx.xx.xx.xx.xx.xx

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but i have to set the dns client on startup ...
how to set the dns client???

[Roxoff]

Instead of doing this in rc.local, you should use the system tool for network configuration. It's called 'system-config-network', and if it's not installed already it should be just a yum install away. If you don't run X, there is a text mode version that should work too.

In the tool, you can specify these settings for your network connection, and make it activate on bootup.