On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 00:46 -0700, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > echo "NETWORKWAIT=yes" >> /etc/sysconfig/network > > reboot > > I'm not sure why networkwait isn't the default. Running without it > causes quite a bit of the stuff that relies on the network to fail. Yes, all the fun of watching a box twiddle its thumbs, or come up broken and not recover: As NTP found no servers, and never tried again. NFS wedges things until the network is up, and mayn't recover after. DNS servers going odd if they needed to fetch records from a remote master. Web servers that won't bind to the network interface, because only localhost was there when it fired up... -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines