Re: network configuration

[Edward Betts <edward@hairnet.demon.co.uk>]

On Tue, 02 Feb, 1999, Christian Hammers wrote:
> Hi !
> 
> Today I installed a Debian Slink system as proxy server. 
> There I found it annoying, that the standard place for IP addresses was
> /etc/rcS.d/S40network.

$ ls -l /etc/rcS.d/S40network
   0 lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root           17 Jul 15  1998 /etc/rcS.d/S40networ
k -> ../init.d/network*

> 
> IMHO no end user should fiddle around with /etc/rc*. Why is there no
> /etc/network.conf or similar.
> 
> Or has this changed in the recent netbase.deb ? 

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