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Re: /etc/init.d/networking does not start everything in /etc/network/interfaces



On Tue 17 May 2016 at 16:38:52 (+0200), Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]:
> > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> [...]
> > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing
> > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me.
> > >
> > > [1] Schocking Truth! Not everything seen on the Internet is true!
> > 
> > About 4th or 5th down in that list of hits, this one labeled for debian, 
> > is a bit long winded  but finishes up recommending one edit his 
> > personal .bash-aliases file to contain this:
> > 
> > alias netrestart="sudo nohup sh -c 'invoke-rc.d networking stop; date; 
> > echo sleeping; sleep 2; echo waking; date; invoke-rc.d networking 
> > start'"
> > 
> > Is that simple?  Elegant and correct?  No, if the networking script was 
> > broken, its still broken!
> 
> Again, I recommend to read [0] and [1].
> 
> [0] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550240

My reading of this is:

Problem: A doesn't work.

Solution: Put message in B saying B might not work.

Is that right? And is it helpful to Gene?

> [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

I'm not sure what this has to do with the problem in hand.

Cheers,
David.


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