network vs NetworkManger services ??

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 17:50 -0400, William Case wrote:
> On advice in an earlier thread, it was suggested that ifconfig was
> interfering and that I had no use for it.  That I should move it aside
> so that it would not be found. I moved it to a dir I keep in root for
> such things -- /root/MoveAsides.

You mean you moved the /sbin/ifconfig command to somewhere else? I can't
see any sane reason for doing that. It's definitely a sledgehammer way
of preventing it from being executed, but I'd say it's likely to cause
trouble (e.g. in scripts which are trying to run it).

(It is occasionally valid to move a command to one side and put a
surrogate in its place, such as a shell script that simply logs its
arguments and then executes the original, all this for debugging
purposes, but I don't get the impression that that's what you're doing).

Note also that any earlier execution of ifconfig will have remained in
force unless you also rebooted or did something specific to change it.

poc