/etc/sysconfig/network/* -- are they part of LSB linux standard base?

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I’m toying around with some config settings in /etc/sysconfig/network and I wonder if they are part of LSB (linux standard base)?

Many of the files (scripts?) contain @suse.de or @suse.com Authors. Are these scripts SUSE specific? Or can we count on CentOS and RedHat also using the same config/syntax?

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CentOS, Red Hat (and of course Fedora) use /etc/sysconfig/network/ (as well as other /etc/sysconfig configuration files) but I have no idea about whether this is defined in LSB.

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Hi
Have a read through the comments in /etc/init.d/skeleton;


# Template system startup script for some example service/daemon FOO
#
# LSB compatible service control script; see http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/
#
# Note: This template uses functions rc_XXX defined in /etc/rc.status on
# UnitedLinux/SUSE/Novell based Linux distributions. If you want to base your
# script on this template and ensure that it works on non UL based LSB
# compliant Linux distributions, you either have to provide the rc.status
# functions from UL or change the script to work without them.
# See skeleton.compat for a template that works with other distros as well.

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Those are the init scripts. OP’s talking about /etc/sysconfig/network.

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Hi
But the sysconfig entries are read by the init scripts, one would
imagine if the init scripts are LSB, then the configs used must be as
well?

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Config files are used by lots of things, not only init scripts. Also the LSB only prescribes the operations that a LSB init script must support, the runlevels and so forth. AFAIK the format of the config information isn’t prescribed. So I think at the moment there are bound to be differences between how say RH and SUSE store this info.

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On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 02:16 +0000, deano ferrari wrote:
> CentOS, Red Hat (and of course Fedora) use /etc/sysconfig/network/ (as
> well as other /etc/sysconfig configuration files) but I have no idea
> about whether this is defined in LSB.
>
>

AFAIK, the answer is no… but could be yes. The LSB is a poor enforcer
of things.

Red Hat and SUSE’s sysconfig are VERY different.

I would NOT count on /etc/sysconfig… even if you did, realize that
they differ distro to distro, so you really do not gain anything
‘standard’ wise.