I have two net cards, recognized as eth0 and eth1. I don't use eth0 as it is an onboard NIC and I prefer the other one, a 3com. I did 'rc-update del net.eth0 default' in order to stop it from starting when booting up my desktop, but it didn't stop until I removed net.eth0, which belongs to baselayout as 'qfile baselayout | grep net' says. I think this is not a confortable behaviour and it could have an easy solution. Perhaps it would be better for those scripts to appear at boot time or having a special flag in /etc/conf.d/net for selecting which card to start. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.have net.eth0 and net.eth1 in /etc/init.d and set to start at boot time 2.do rc-update del net.eth0 default 3.reboot Actual Results: the system starts net.eth0 service Expected Results: the system doesn't start net.eth0 service ~ # emerge --info Portage 2.1.2.1-r1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r1, 2.6.20-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo i686 AMD Sempron(TM) 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 16:00:11 +0000 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.31-r4 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.17.50.0.12 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.15 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.23b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.20-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" 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es_AR" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/vmware /usr/portage/local/layman/nx /usr/portage/local/layman/xeffects /usr/local/overlays/tomas /usr/local/overlays/toolchain_overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X Xaw3d a52 aac aalib acl acpi addbookmarks aim akode alias alsa amarok amazon amuled apache2 aqua_theme arts asf autoreplace avalon bash-completion berkdb big-tables bitmap-fonts blas boost bootsplash branding browserplugin bzip2 cairo calendar carbone_theme ccache cdb cddb cdparanoia cdr cgi chroot clamav clearcase cli colordiff connectionstatus contactnotes cracklib crypt css ctype cups curl cvs dbus 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xft xine xml xml2 xmlreader xmlrpc xmlwriter xorg xosd xrandr xscreensaver xsl xslt xv xvid xvmc yahoo yaz yv12 zip zlib zvbi" ALSA_CARDS="via82xx" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse vmmouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="es-AR es-ES en es es_ES es_AR" LIRC_DEVICES="all" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa nv apm nvidia v4l vmware" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
You need to look into /etc/conf.d/rc and read about coldplug and hotplug.
