On Sun, 8 May 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 5/8/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 8 May 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> > > I can do a "/etc/init.d/networking restart" manually and it will restart the
> > > network just fine (it was already running just eth0 was hosed).
> > > I was thinking about how to get the simlink to call networking restart as it
> > > just looks like it is pointing to the file, I guess there must be some way to
> > > pass a command to it in order to do a restart...
> >
> > "service networking restart"? Or maybe "ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0"?
>
> Doing it manually it is just fine, but I am trying to figure out how the
> symlink would call networking restart? it is linking to a file, but I do
> not see how to cause the link to issue the command. Perhaps i am being
> dense here...
>
> Here is what the entry from rcS.d for networking looks like
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Aug 30 2004 S40networking
> -> ../init.d/networking
>
> I need it to be networking restart. Will the ln command allow you to create a
> symlink to a file and add a argument?
I don't think so. But if you include both the K??networking and
S??networking scripts, the K one will get run first, so that may do what you
want. May, anyhow.
Or, copy an existing script and modify it to do what you want.
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