I am trying to setup aliass for eth0 on a slackware 9.1 box. I am
confused as the init scripts have changed since slackware 9. What is the
correct syntax for the rc.inet1.conf file. I have not been able to find
any info about this file. Thanks Jeff Turley

On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 20:50:26 GMT, Jeff Turley <jaturley@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> What is the correct syntax for the rc.inet1.conf file.

Have a look at the example file; it's commented very well, so it should
be fairly easy to figure out what does what. The only thing that might
not be immediately obvious is that the number in square brackets is the
number of the interface (e.g '0' means 'eth0').


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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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