Karmic: stop: Unknown instance

[Pierre Frenkiel]

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Tom H wrote:

> Normally:
> If you have Network Manager running, networking is of no use to you
   I had so often problems with Networkmanager (like removing my resolv.conf)
   that I removed the package...
   Anyway, I need networking, as I have to restart the network in some scripts.

> Why the missing stop stanza? No idea but it must be by design because
> the start stanza in "/etc/init.d/networking" calls
> "/etc/init/networking.conf" but the stop stanza in
> "/etc/init.d/networking" calls ifdown.

   I actually noticed that, but it's rather inconsistent, and that means
   that /etc/init.d scripts are not really obsolete, as it is claimed
   elsewhere.

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Pierre Frenkiel