I have tried putting in my own IFCONFIG commands in /etc/rc.local to set up a static IP address on eth0. After boot I check it using the ifconfig cmd but it doen't appear to have worked.
I would like to write my own message from rc.local to make sure my part is getting executed but gprintf doesn't appear to do it.
After a lot of heartache I finally worked out that my D-Link D504T router is NOT populating the DNS of my eth0 device. I would also like to do this during boot but can't find what command to use. MAN IFCONFIG shows nothing? Currently I use the Mandrake Control Centre's Network & Internet Internet access to do this but don't know how to find what command IT uses.

Can someone plese help me out?

if you can find out the ip address of your isps dns servers just put them in your /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver blah.balh.aasdf.sdff

if your with me....
errm.
auto setup. mandrake. hmm. i don't like mandrake because if abused me when i was young and linux innocent but i know the RH based distros keep their network config scripts in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/

the file i nthere you need to edit is called ifcfg-DEVICENAME ie ifcfg-eth0

google that and see what it comes up with.
g luck

have to put the DNS in every boot.
I'd like to know how to write to syslog when rc.local runs as I want to be sure that rc.local is working. If so then the commands I've put ibn there aren't working.
Thanks anyway, can you answer this for me please.

Cheers

you shouldn't really be running network setup commands from rc.local. not sure where the network scripts on mandrake are.
don't know how to send stuff to the syslog
have you tried looking in some of the other logfiles to see if there are any messages
/var/log/
you shouldn't have to put the dns in every time unless something else is changing your resolv.conf
it should say at the top of your resolv.conf what has changed it. (maybe not in mandrake)

the D-link D504T / driver that changes it back. Whatever it is it means that I have to put it in over the top.
I read other posts that said to put things in rc.local. I only want the 3 ifconfigs I need
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 192.168.3.1
ifconfig up
but they don't seem to be executed as once I log-in I su & ifconfig only to find eth0 still has not been sorted.
I don't care really where they go so long as they get exexcuted.

Any advice gratefully received.

PS yes, thats where I saw gprintf & action ...

have you tried doing them afterwards when your booted and it works right?

also what is the output from /sbin/route

you could try putting 'exec' infront of the commands in rc.local

After a boot
and i've su'd all the cmds work fine
only then does route -n show what i need and only then can i browse internet and local lan.
I will try exec on next boot

Thanks.

putting exec in front didn't seem to do it.
Thanks for the suggestion though.
Tink I'll try writing to a file from inside rc.local ie.

cat /proc/devices > /var/log/ianian.log
or
echo "++++" >> /var/log/ianian.log

instead!

Hmmm! I thouht I had explained that silly ol' me had edited rc.local and lost the x-ecute bit. No wonder it wasn't working.
Sorry to waste eveyones time.