On Fri Oct 11 2002 at 09:54, Matt Wilson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 08:23:38AM -0500, Aaron Konstam wrote: > > You do not have to be root if you change ifup and ifdown to be SUID root. > > Bah, that's no good. Just enable user control of the device > through redhat-config-network. If you like to edit your config by > hand, add: > > USERCTL=yes > > to the ifcfg-* file for the interface. > > Matt There are a great many very useful tweaks that can be done to the /etc/sysconfig/ files and the documentation for this isn't so obvious. Suggestion: put a copy of sysconfig.txt (from /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/) into /etc/sysconfig/, or a README that points to this file. Cheers Tony