[ale] Failsafe configuration changes?

[jkinney at localnetsolutions.com (James P. Kinney III)]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 11:15 -0500, John Cole wrote:

> 
> Does anyone know of any tools that monitor changes to the ifcfg-eth? and
> network files so that if they are changed it will require an OK on next
> reboot or it will revert back to the previous and/or failsafe configuration
> and reboot again to reset back to a working config?
> 
Wrap the whole change process in a script with a fairly long wait time
built in.. Basically, if the script is not stop in time, the network
reverts back to before the changes (i.e. an appropriate use of removing
and remaking links is easy)
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