Network service start at boot?
I'm sure this is an easy question, but how do I get the Network Service to start at boot?
I just had DSL hooked up. It was done by using a Speedstream (Siemens) 4200 modem/router. The original problem was that it was USB device. What's up with that? It works fine in XP (I have dual boot XP and Redhat 9) however I noticed that when I was in RH9, I still had internet connectivity on my other networked XP box. So I thought maybe the actual USB device had nothing to do with linux as long as I had a NIC in and it was getting an IP. I was right. Problem is, when I installed RH9 I wasn't networked so it appears that by default, the Network service isn't started by default. I was able to run redhat-config-network and manually start the network service and I was able to ping Yahoo. Problem is that then when I tried to open Opera I get this: "** (redhat-config-network-gui:2063): WARNING **: `GtkTextSearchFlags' is not an enum type (redhat-config-network-gui:2063): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "bluecurve"," and no graphical apps will open, But I know this is another issue non-related to starting the Network service at boot. I was also able to run, redhat-config-service and manually start the network service with the same result. Able to ping, yada yada. I'm not able to save these changes, when I reboot, the network service will not load at boot. What do I edit to tell redhat to automatically start the network service at boot? I'm sure it's an easy question, but I've never really done much network stuff with redhat and I don't know where to look. Thank you. |
To start network service at boot issue the following command:
[root@host]#chkconfig --level 345 network on As you said 'no GUI app works'.. :-? I dont think this problem is due to network service... Can you please try after cleaning your /tmp dir? I mean rm -rf * at /tmp make sure that you have removed all the hidden files and directory too..(empty directory). Normally there wont be anything important. Thanks, Rinish (rinishriju) |
Hey Rinish,
Thanks for the reply. I kind of figured it out yesterday. It has somehing to do with being logged in as root. If I boot up, log in as root, and type in,"ifup eth0" I can ping yahoo, but I can't open any gui apps. I get the above error message. But after I type, "ifup eth0" and then su to a user account, I can fire up gui apps. I thinK I'm supposed to do something like, "hosts +" as user before I go back in as root. Since I was never on a Network until now, I've always logged in as root. I think it would be a good idea to break that habit now. |
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