Re: weird /etc/ifconfig.*

[Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost>]

Steve Pribyl <spribyl%peel.com@localhost> writes:

>>> I have notices on a couple of my NetBSD 4.0 servers that one or more
>>> /etc/ifconfig.* files will get over written during a reboot.
>
> This is still a mystery to me.
>
> They are different files.
> Is this some side affect from the /etc/security script?   That is the
> only place I can find that has copies.

I had a report of a similar problem.  It turned out that the user had a
program that would essentially do

  rm /etc/ifconfig.le0
  cp /etc/ifconfig.le0.foo /etc/ifconfig.le0

The program was intended to switch locations on a laptop, but was
inadvertently installed in /usr/local/bin on a fixed box and then was
run by mistake.

So, I suspect there's something like this going on.  None of my
multi-NIC machines have ever had this happen, and that's what everyone
else is saying.