On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:41:31 -0400, Carlos Mennens wrote: > What is the deal now with 'restarting' networking services in Debian 5 & > Squeeze? I use to be able to run the command: > > /etc/init.d/networking restart > > Now when I do so in Debian, I get a strange error: > > Running /etc/init.d/networking restart is deprecated because it may not > enable again some interfaces ... (warning). Reconfiguring network > interfaces...done.
Yep, I noticed in Squeeze yesterday. > Not to mention any changes I made to my static IP address in > '/etc/network/interfaces' didn't take effect which leads me to believe > the command I ran above didn't restart the network daemon or is not > forcing it to look for changes. > > I asked on the forums and I can't get a straight answer as to what is > the official command in Debian to restart the networking daemon? There > can't be six different answers and someone on the dev team has to have a > official correct command to do something as simple as restarting > networking. The only two available options seem to be "stop|start", so... /etc/init.d/networking stop && /etc/init.d/networking start ...should do the trick. It would be nice to know the reason for the "restart" deprecation, though. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.09.22.17.05...@gmail.com
