ifup fails for static IP address. Is ifcfg wrong?

[Robert Nichols]

Art Edwards wrote:
> I dug a little deeper and found that the ifcfg-eth0 in default had the wrong 
> IP address--one that was actually in use. When I changed that value, all 
> started to work. I really don't know why the ifcfg-eth0 script in 
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default
> 
> is different from that in
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
> 
> In fact, I really don'tunderstand why there are two. Why not symbolic links?

Was this installation an upgrade?  The FC5 installer creates only the
one file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, and that appears to be
sufficient.  If you (re)configure with system-config-network, there
will be two additional hard links to that same file:

    3290919 ./sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
    3290919 ./sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0
    3290919 ./sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0

It looks like you got a broken setup with some files left over
from a previous installation.

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Bob Nichols         Yes, "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address.