When there is a linux file that has " new " at the end of it, is that the file being used at boot or is it the one without new. EXAMPLE " rc.inet1.new " or " rc.inet1 " . Thanks.

"When there is a linux file that has " new " at the end of it, is that the file being used at boot or is it the one without new. EXAMPLE " rc.inet1.new " or " rc.inet1 " . Thanks."

rc.inet1 is the file being used.

I have run into "new" files when installing rpm packages where I already have an earlier version of that package installed. If the latest version installs a configuration file it often installs its version of that file as "new". That way the new package does not clobber any changes that I or the SuSE installer have made to that configuration file. Once I caught on to what is happening I began looking at the "new" files to see if there is anything there that I need to incorporate into the old configuration file.

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I was modifying my rc.inet1 + 2 and rc.M files and messed up somehow and lost my internet connection, to make a long story short I deleted my rc.M file and replaced it with rc.M.new that was there already and got my connection back.