On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 09:17:01 -0700 (PDT), ec <
eculbert@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Being 'man page' stupid, how does one 'turn on' eth0
> from the command line? Do you have to be root?
>
> What is the syntax that does it? I know it is stupidly
> simple to do, but the wife turns on her computer after
> a storm passes before I get the modem hooked back up
> to the power and phone line. I just need the script to
> get her back up without rebooting her system.
>
> I have figured out how to kill mine, but so far
> haven't turned it back on except by reboot.
>
> =====
/etc/init.d/eth0 start
This is exactly how the boot script does it.
The directories /etc/rc? will contain symbolic links to stuff in
/etc/init.d . This is how it knows when to boot what.
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/sect_04_02.html
Though I don't have any on my Gentoo box :) Need to figure out Gentoo's
way behind-the-scenes-of-rc-update.
--
--Alexander
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