Thanks for your suggestions, but after the chmod, I actually re-booted the machine, but found no change in the situation. I was mulling over the suggestion about udev affecting the issue. One problem I have with that, is that after all scripts end, I can assign an address to eth0 using the command ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.10, and everything will work without a problem. If udev were re-naming eth0 to something else, such as eth1, the command would have failed.
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