From: Stefano Crocco <stefano.crocco@...>
Date: 2006-11-24T17:38:35+09:00
Subject: Re: invoke system command from within a method

Alle 09:16, venerd� 24 novembre 2006, Moritz Reiter ha scritto:
> if put the
> very same statment ( %x{ /etc/init.d/networking restart } into a
> separate file as the only statement of the file (besides the hash
> bang...) and execute this file, the init script does reconfigure my eth
> correctly. I am mostly greatly confused...

Doesn't it work even if you add lines only after the %x{} line? I mean, does 
something like

  #!/usr/bin/ruby
  %x{ /etc/init.d/networking restart }
  some other code

work or not?

> So I suspect that the problem is connected more to the ifdown/ifup binaries 
than to the init script itself.

Have you tried running another command from your script in the same way?