mathr / blog / #

# /etc/init.d/apache2 start 
 * Re-caching dependency info (mtimes differ)...
 * Starting eth0
 *   Configuring wireless network for eth0
 *     no access points found
 *   Couldn't find any access points on eth0
 *   Failed to configure wireless for eth0                                [ !! ]
 * ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
 *         "apache2" was not started.

Aaargh! Luckily it turns out there is a simple solution, if a little obscure:

# cd /etc/init.d/         
# ln -s net.eth0 net.eth1 
# rc-update del net.eth0 default
 * net.eth0 removed from the following runlevels: default
 * rc-update complete.
# rc-update add net.eth1 default
 * net.eth1 added to runlevel default
 * rc-update complete.
# /etc/init.d/apache2 start
 * Caching service dependencies ...                                       [ ok ]
 * Starting eth1
 *   Bringing up eth1
 *     192.168.0.11                                                       [ ok ]
 *   Adding routes
 *     default gw 192.168.0.1 ...                                         [ ok ]
 * Starting apache2 ...
apache2: Could not determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName                                                     [ ok ]

And that also means I shouldn't have to manually configure the wired network at boot-time, which is nice! Two birds with one stone etc etc...