Where is the ifcfg-eth0 file in Slackware?

[mickx27]

Hi,
I am trying to fix my MAC address on a Slackware 10 machine. I can change the MAC but when I reboot it goes back to its default number. I read that in RedHat you can edit this address in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 file. But I can not find this file in Slackware.

I am looking for the file with the HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Does anyone know where I can find this information?

Cheers

[Armage]

Check out this site http://whoozoo.co.uk/mac-spoof-linux.htm#2

Armage

[Newstudent]

I used that same page to set my MAC.
I dont think that shows where the "Slackware" path is at either

[Goran]

grep -a HWADDR=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX *

[stathisx]

or try find / -name <what you want to search for>...

[mickx27]

or try find / -name <what you want to search for>...

What do you mean? Is that another way to look up MAN pages?

[stathisx]

with this command you just search the / partition (whole system) to find the file named <filename>.for more options take a look at man find...

[mickx27]

with this command you just search the / partition (whole system) to find the file named <filename>.for more options take a look at man find...

Thank you

I did not know about this option. I tried doing a search with it but it came up empty. I find it kind of weird that this filename does not exist. I even used the GUI to search text in files for the word HWADDR: but nothing showed up. Is slackware listing this under something else?

Thanks for showing me how to do the search. I am checking out the man pages for "find"

This is the type of help I appreciate. Not giving me the full answer but pointing me in the right direction.

Still stuck though :P

[monkey8]

mickx27: using -name is case sensitive, you can try -iname for insensitivity

I'm not on linux so I can't check the file, but heres a couple of ideas

-if you do "$ man man" it tells you how you can search man pages for certain text

-If you are using program X if you do "$ man X" it will usually show the config files "under files:" or "see also:" towards the end of the manual.

-Maybe that redhat file is the equivalent of slack's /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1

(slack official network basic tut: http://www.slackware.com/book/index....rce=c1063.html )

[X01A4]

I tried looking in the MAN pages for this and found nothing