Eth0 problem... Update

[Timothy A. Seufert]

At 2:35 PM -0400 5/28/02, Daniel J. Costello wrote:
>Someone else just told me to do the same thing.  Everytime after I would
>restart the network I would get this...
>
>"CROND[1262}: (root) CMD ( /sbin/nmmod -as)"
>
>I turned Crond off and it seems to have corrected the problem.  Strange
>right?  I have no clue why this might be killing my connectivity, but for
>now its fixed.  Thanks!!

Turning off crond altogether is a very bad idea.  You need cron on 
because it performs some vital system maintenance tasks.

If you think that the cron job responsible for occasionally running 
rmmod is responsible for losing ethernet, disable it individually. 
Edit the file /etc/cron.d/kmod and comment out the line which starts 
with "*/10 * * * *" by putting a # character at the start of the line.

This particular cron job appears to be intended to clean up extra 
unused kernel modules, which I guess could conceivably remove your 
Ethernet card's driver, though I would have thought that it would be 
unable to as the driver should have been in use.

-- 
Tim Seufert