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From: Steve Reid <steve@edmweb.com>
To: "Victor A. Sudakov" <victor@vas.tomsk.su>
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Subject: Re: "talk" does not work. Please help.
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> >   > 1. What does this "ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists" message mean?
> >   >    Is it an error?
[snip]
> Do you have the same message when you issue this command? Or is
> it some local configuration bug?

I've seen it before during the boot process, but not when I enter the
ifconfig command. I don't remember if I did anything to get rid of it or
not... I haven't payed much attention to the boot messages recently. 

> Indeed, what you do in sysconfig is assigning some string to a
> variable which is later read in some other startup files. Thus,

Quite right, I didn't think about that.

> May be I should put this line into /etc/netstart? Any other ideas?

Whatever works.