OK, I'll try this again since the list ate my correction... On Tue, 2004-01-13 at 06:43, Alexandre Strube wrote: > This is not true - on every rehat system since 8.0 I've been doing this. > No machine had reduced funtionality because of it. In fact, the opposite > happened. Try for yourselves, then tell me. Alrighty, trying for myself: $ export PATH=/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin $ redhat-config-network An unhandled exception has occured. This is most likely a bug. Please save the crash dump and file a detailed bug report against redhat-config-network at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla Component: redhat-config-network Version: 1.3.10 Summary: TB /usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rhpl/Conf.py:298:write:IOError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '//etc/sysconfig/network' ... $ export PATH=/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin $ redhat-config-network You are attempting to run "redhat-config-network" which requires administrative privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so. Password for root: -- David Norris http://www.webaugur.com/dave/ ICQ - 412039
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