Change IP permanently without Yast?

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#1

Folks;
in SUSE 10, How can i change the IP address as well as the GW & Netmask permanently without using Yast? using only command line and editing the required files?
Which files and services need to be edited/restarted to make it happen?

#2

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Check /etc/sysconfig/network/ and the files contained therein. This
isn’t the supported way so… is there a reason why ‘yast’ can’t be used?

Good luck.

katkota wrote:
> Folks;
> in SUSE 10, How can i change the IP address as well as the GW & Netmask
> permanently without using Yast? using only command line and editing the
> required files?
> Which files and services need to be edited/restarted to make it happen?
>
>
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#3

On 2009-02-24, ab@novell.com <ab@novell.com> wrote:
> katkota wrote:
>> Folks;
>> in SUSE 10, How can i change the IP address as well as the GW & Netmask
>> permanently without using Yast? using only command line and editing the
>> required files?
>> Which files and services need to be edited/restarted to make it happen?
>>
>>
> Check /etc/sysconfig/network/ and the files contained therein. This
> isn’t the supported way so… is there a reason why ‘yast’ can’t be used?
>

All YaST2 does is edit these files, how should that not be supported? Anyway,
katkota, did you know that YaST2 is functional in a terminal (curses
interface)? Just call it.

Kind regards,
Andreas Stieger

#4

For a security reason Yast is removed so it’s not under “/sbin/yast” or any where

#5

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The issue would be that modifying /etc/sysconfig/* is made to work with
Yast. There may be other files in /etc/sysconfig/network that are
affected by a change in Yast but which are not easy to see from just
perusing the files. Breaking something may not be the most-fun thing to
do. Since there is, as you mentioned, an ncurses version I can’t think
of why you would do this manually but since the OP requires a way
modifying files that should be the way to do it… or at least it’s
where I’d start. If you know every single modification made by Yast for
any given change that a user finds useful (like this one) then write up
a CoolSolution on it and get yourself some points for prizes.

Good luck.

Andreas Stieger wrote:
> On 2009-02-24, ab@novell.com <ab@novell.com> wrote:
>> katkota wrote:
>>> Folks;
>>> in SUSE 10, How can i change the IP address as well as the GW & Netmask
>>> permanently without using Yast? using only command line and editing the
>>> required files?
>>> Which files and services need to be edited/restarted to make it happen?
>>>
>>>
>> Check /etc/sysconfig/network/ and the files contained therein. This
>> isn’t the supported way so… is there a reason why ‘yast’ can’t be used?
>>
>
> All YaST2 does is edit these files, how should that not be supported? Anyway,
> katkota, did you know that YaST2 is functional in a terminal (curses
> interface)? Just call it.
>
> Kind regards,
> Andreas Stieger
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#6

Edit the files under /etc/sysconfig/network and then run SuSEconfig afterwards (this is what YaST does too). Then of course you have to restart the network interface.