In article <mi_Kb.21977$P%1.21218537@newssvr28.news.prodigy.c om>,
Jeff Turley wrote:
> I am trying to setup aliass for eth0 on a slackware 9.1 box. I am

If you are referring to the alias for the NIC driver module, that would
be done in /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf.

> confused as the init scripts have changed since slackware 9. What is the

The init scripts assume that the driver is already loaded. You can set
an alias as above to do this, or have the driver explicitly loaded in
/etc/rc.d/rc.netdevice. This file is generated by "netconfig" and has
not changed in syntax: "/sbin/modprobe $DRIVER".

> correct syntax for the rc.inet1.conf file. I have not been able to find

It is a shell (bash) script which is sourced by rc.inet1. Variables set
in rc.inet1.conf control what happens in rc.inet1. Read rc.inet1 and
refer back to rc.inet1.conf. If it doesn't make sense, then you probably
don't understand shell scripting very well, and you would not be advised
to edit these init scripts directly.
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