RHEL 6: restarting network service fails with error ifcfg-bond1: line 10: /root is a directory

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Observing the following error while restarting the network service
# service network restart
..

  ./ifcfg-bond1:   line 10: /root is a directory
  ./ifcfg-bond1:   line 11: /root is a directory
  ./ifcfg-bond1:   line 12: /root is a directory
  ./ifcfg-bond1:   line 13: /root is a directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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