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.