From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N2eyd-0000xx-TD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:52:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 34C60E0798; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:52:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wlym.com (wlym.com [66.135.63.43]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDC7E0798 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 05:52:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (pool-71-171-100-78.clppva.fios.verizon.net [71.171.100.78]) (authenticated bits=128) by wlym.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5) with ESMTP id n9R5qB9I029455 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:52:13 -0500 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n9R5q7ba005087 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:10 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when trying to start network In-reply-to: <25500.1256592901@ccs.covici.com> References: <32644.1256583003@ccs.covici.com> <200910262120.25389.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <24474.1256588964@ccs.covici.com> <200910262200.34290.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <25500.1256592901@ccs.covici.com> Comments: In-reply-to covici@ccs.covici.com message dated "Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:35:01 -0400." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.1.1 Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:52:07 -0400 Message-ID: <5086.1256622727@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 7cec8180-7782-4900-8844-7748c4293df0 X-Archives-Hash: 1c8b6dca127fe0c1274e31810cd3d313 covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > > Am Montag 26 Oktober 2009 21:29:24 schrieb covici: > > > What are new style networking scripts -- which package is that. The > > > /etc/conf.d/net.example seems not to have changed since May. > > > > The ones that come with newer versions of openrc. If you decide to use them, > > your configuration now goes into network, but you also have to use the > > corresponding init script. > I do have openrc 0.5.2-r1 -- is there some documentation of the new > style? For dhcp things still work correctly in /etc/conf.d/net and > even for a static one if I don't need a default route, it seems to work. > Just to let people know, the solution was just a reboot, I didn't need to go to the new style of netowrk, which I have a lot of questions about anyway, but this is all that was necessary. Very strange indeed. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com