On 4/6/2017 9:43 PM, Carl Hartung wrote:
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 18:01:07 -0400 Brian K. White wrote:
2) crap: Edit /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth0 (or whatever the equivalent is these days, this is from 11.4 using ifcfg, not leap and not using networkmanager. But there IS some equivalent file you can edit.) Then issue a "reboot -r now" and cross your fingers
Notwithstanding all of your valid points, which I generally concur with, the last situation like this that I was forced to contend with, I wrote a 'scriptlet' that would restore the original, known working network configuration and reboot five minutes after booting if I'd botched things up. Just a thought ... ;-)
What an entirely wise addition to the procedure. I apparently fall just short of that wise, since I never did that. :) How many years will it be before I'm in such a situation again so I can use this new trick? I have either serial consoles or web consoles *everywhere*... wait, actually, thanks to the backwards march of progress where sometimes things get worse over time, my vmware consoles are 100x harder to get access to than my old serial consoles. Not just by intentional security means like having to set up a vpn client... No I mean the thrice-damned vsphere web client with it's thrice-damned console plugin that doesn't work in any browsers any more, and the hosting provider has so far failed to update vcenter or esx to the newer versions that supposedly works in current browsers. If I don't happen to have one of my special laptops with me that I have painstakingly configured and hacked into working, then I am simply not getting into any of my vmware vms consoles in a hurry. I do have the necessary notes documented, and I have recipes that work for windows mac and linux client laptops (phones and tablets are right out), but it's just not happening in a hurry. So, I could possibly need to use this, on my *most expensive* and current servers, of all things. Meanwhile my crappy old plain hardware servers... I can get a console from any device and any os. I can do a bare metal fresh install from the bios and bootloader on up, from my old PalmOS phone, over it's 14.4 2g internet no less. Progress. -- bkw -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org