[ale] How do you restart the network on Ubuntu

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2011-08-30 at 10:58 -0400, Andrew Sledge wrote:
> > The Ubuntu package sysvinit-utils provides the service command to
> > control services.
> >
> > $ sudo service network-interface restart INTERFACE=eth0
>
> How are we to know the mapping from /etc/init.d/networking -> service
> network-interface restart INTERFACE=eth0?
>
> is there a "use this command for that command" doc lying around
> somewhere?
>
> I have from time to time tried "service networking restart" to only have
> "no such command found" returned.
>

That's likely a $PATH issue as /sbin/service is not in a normal user path or
a su path but is in su - path. Ditto for sudo as it doesn't monkey with
$PATH by default.

>
>
> >
> > * ale-request at ale.org <ale-request at ale.org>:
> > > Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2011 09:15:06 -0400
> > > From: David Lemcoe <forum at lemcoe.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] How do you restart the network on Ubuntu
> > > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
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> > > If you're looking to restart an interface, I know "ifdown <interface>"
> > > followed by "ifup <interface>" will do that.
> > >
> > > However I think it's "sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart" to restart
> the
> > > whole thing.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > David
> > >
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