Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-07-01 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack wrote: > I was able to "fix" the single-user mode behavior (which I agree, > isn't necessarily broken) and get it to bring up the links by > simply patching init(8) to call system("/sbin/ifconfig") before > prompting for the single-user shell. It works, but I feel dirty. I see no

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Polyack
On 6/30/2011 6:49 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares t

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-30 Thread Steve Polyack
On 6/30/2011 1:10 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system dr

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-30 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Steve Polyack wrote: ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's on-board NICs ... when the system

Re: Question about NIC link state initialization

2011-06-29 Thread perryh
Steve Polyack wrote: > ... An occaisional fat-finger in /etc/fstab may cause one to > end up in single-user mode ... some of these systems have a LOM > (lights-out management) controller which shares the system's > on-board NICs ... when the system drops out of init(8) and into > single-user mode