Subject: Bug#3289: sysvinit wipes out network configuration

From: [email-masked]
Date: 12 Jun 1996 21:34:20 -0000

Package: sysvinit
Version: 2.62-1

The preinst for sysvinit recommends that files in /etc/init.d be installed
unless "you have really changed any of these files".  Yet, /etc/init.d/network
has automatically populated entries for ifconfig and route.  Installing
sysvinit takes the machine off the net at the next boot.

-- 
Raul

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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 1996 20:05:47 +0200 (MET DST)

> sysvinit takes the machine off the net at the next boot.

Yes, that can really confuse newbies. I'll fix the text that is printed
by the postinst and some other things (mainly other text files) and I'll
release a 2.63

Mike.
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From: Miquel van Smoorenburg <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 12:47:41 +0200 (MET DST)

> sysvinit takes the machine off the net at the next boot.

Fixed in 2.63-1, where the preinst script warns against installing a
new version of "network".

Mike.