Network interface restart

[Steve Bertrand]

Bram Schoenmakers wrote:
> Op woensdag 09 mei 2007, schreef Sam Lawrance:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>>> Could someone please point out where I made the mistake?
>> When your network interface went down, you lost the connection, your
>> shell lost the terminal and your script was terminated before it
>> could finish doing what it was supposed to.  Possibly you need to use
>> something like "nohup" or "screen" (from ports), or have some other
>> form of terminal available.
> 
> Thanks for your answer.
> 
> But as I said, I ran the script from a screen session, so that makes me wonder 
> why the execution was aborted.
> 
> But is running '/etc/rc.d/netif restart'' known to cause problems? I think I 
> shouldn't have to use scripts like these just to change a setting on the 
> network interface.

More importantly, what *exactly* did your 'fallback' script contain?

Steve