RHEL5: Why do I see "error: Missing or invalid IP4 prefix '0'" ?

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Issue

  • I see the following messages:
Aug 19 04:56:19 hostname nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh: parsing /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 ... 
Aug 19 04:56:19 hostname nm-system-settings:    ifcfg-rh:     error: Missing or invalid IP4 prefix '0'
  • Why is nm_applet started, although NetworkManager is disabled on my system?
  • Why is ifcfg-rh not accepting whitespace characters around config values?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5
  • NetworkManager

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