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I have redhat 9 install running an old postfix mail server. Just had to change it's ip address. Edited the /etc/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file and rebooted. It still pulls over the old ...
  1. 01-11-2010 #1
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    I have redhat 9 install running an old postfix mail server. Just had to change it's ip address. Edited the /etc/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file and rebooted. It still pulls over the old ip address somehow. So my temp work around is to manually change the ip at the command line.

    Were else could the system be getting the old ip address from? I also checked in the /etc/rc.d/rc.local file....not in there.

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    I don't know about RH9, but on my RHEL (CentOS) 5 system, the settings are in /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices - ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 (I have 2 ports). It looks to be a clone of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Perhaps you need to modify both files? On my system, both files are just that, files not links.
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    Oh that may be it. I know I have seen that devices folder on there before.

    Anyone know why there are 2 files that contain the ip address info like this?

    Gonna check this out later today to see if it really fixes the issue.
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    Quote Originally Posted by icedutah View Post
    Oh that may be it. I know I have seen that devices folder on there before.

    Anyone know why there are 2 files that contain the ip address info like this?
    I don't know why, but I'm still getting up-to-speed Linux-admin-wise. I'd like to know also.
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    could you fix the problem

    I had the same issue in fedora, fedora has a entry in the that allow NetworkManager to controlled it so change in the eth# won't stay after restart the services
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