[ale] Debian script system

[Boris Borisov]

After about hour research and reading init scripts I focused on the
commands ifup and ifdown which are reading /etc/network/interfaces for
settings. After "man interfaces" I though that my problem is that dhcp
client wasn't set properly. So I add line "client udhcpc" in the section
for eth0. After network restart no IP assigned again. Then I manually run
"ipdown -a" and then "ipup -a" an I've got a message "no wireless
extensions on eth0". I recall seeing some custom wireless scripts in
/etc/network/ip-pre-up.d". I did chmod -x * and network restart. Now
everything is how is supposed  to be.

Thank you everybody.


On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 10:45 PM, Boris Borisov <bugyatl at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been out for dinner and I missed your emails but thank you for
> answering! The system have a XFCE desktop by default but with MIPS CPU with
> no FPU and only 64MB ram is a pain to even load the Desktop. That's why
> I've decided to stick with console only and used for something else like
> file server or whatever. So I did chmod -x /etc/init.d/xserver-nodm script
> and add line in inittab to have a getty on tty1. The main problem is dhcp
> on eth0 so I don't have to be next to the thingy (dropbear for sshd).
>
> Normally I think this device used the XFCE network manager for up/down
> network but I cannot be 100 % sure.
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 8:04 PM, Jeremy T. Bouse <
> jeremy.bouse at undergrid.net> wrote:
>
>> On 26.04.2014 18:35, Boris Borisov wrote:
>>
>>> I have small embedded system that uses Debian like init scripts. But
>>> for some reason it cannot get dhcp address from router. I have to do
>>> it manually with "udhcpc eth0".
>>>
>>> Anybody familiar from what script this is executed so I can check it.
>>> Something is lost in the chain of scripts.
>>>
>>> P.S. I have the /etc/network/interfaces file and interfaces are up
>>> after boot but no IP on eth0.
>>>
>>
>>
>> If you provided a bit more detail it might make it easier to help you. I
>> happen to run Debian systems myself, kinda bias to it being a Debian
>> Developer.
>>
>> As the other person stated /etc/init.d/networking is usually the SysV
>> init script on Debian systems that fires up the networking but it does only
>> perform what is configured within the /etc/network/interfaces file. It's
>> highly unlikely as you stated this is an embedded system that it would
>> utilize Network Manager in which case it would use an entirely different
>> SysV init script and a separate configuration directory/file.
>>
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