Need help wth kickstart setup of network devices. ifcfg files being renamed to .bak

[Howard Wilkinson]

OK I found it! The networking code in FC6 includes some clevers with 
HWADDR that reames the ifcfg file and writes its own version ... not 
sure why as I do not have the dhclient installed but there you go.

Howard Wilkinson wrote:
> Can anybody point me to the code that is renaming the ifcfg-<device> 
> files I am creating in the post install part of kickstart. They end up 
> as ifcfg<device>.bak and get replaced by DHCP entries. As we run our 
> servers with bonded interfaces I need to get these device to come up 
> as slaves to the bond device which has a static address.
>
> I know this happens after the %post section has run and I am fairly 
> sure it happens after the reboot and once the rc.sysinit hhas run for 
> the first time. I do not have firstboot installed or any of the 
> system-config-* packages so I have eliminated them from the path. I am 
> fairly sure it is not anaconda itself that is doing this, but cannot 
> for the life of me see where it could be happening.
>
> I am running a slightly extended FC6 install with minimal packages.
>
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