On Thursday 12 July 2018 13:27:20 Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > On 12/07/18 05:00, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings; > > > > I have been playing the 10k monkeys scene trying to figure out how > > to add a gateway entry to the route -n report on a rock64 with a > > stretch/xfce install on it. > > > > Where does this assignment belong in a static defined eth0 > > configuration? > > > > I know several places where it doesn't work, but what I need to know > > is where do I put, in what file, the "gateway = www.xxx.yyy.zzz" and > > make it just work for a stretch install on a rock64. Thats an arm64 > > family card. > > > > All I have been able to get out of route is the gibberishy help when > > there is a syntax error. > > > > The obvious (to me that is) place would be > > in /etc/network/interfaces.d/eth0, which has this: > > > > auto eth0 > > allow-hotplug eth0 > > iface eth0 inet static > > address 192.168.71.2 > > netmask 255.255.255.0 > > gateway 192.168.71.1 > > dns-nameserver 192.168.71.1 > > Start off with ifconfig -a to check your interface names, if you've > got eth1 rather than eth0 look in something like > /etc/udev/rules.d/70*. Working in /etc/network/interfaces, simplify > your config to something like > > allow-hotplug eth0 > iface eth0 inet static > address 192.168.71.2/24 > gateway 192.168.71.1 > dns-nameserver 192.168.71.1 > post-up echo ifup > /tmp/eth0 > > Note that for the dns-nameserver to work you'll need the resolvconf > package. > Its there, but resolv.conf is a real file because resolvconf has yet to make a link that is not empty except for these comments.
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN > Look for /tmp/eth0 which should contain a message telling you that the > "post-up" ran. If it's not there find what's going wrong, there's a > file which in principle tells NetworkManager to never under any > circumstances touch an interface but TBH I've yet to find a > circumstance in which NM is less trouble than it's worth and very > often I just tell systemd not to run it. No such file(s) exist root@rock64:~# ls -lR /var/tmp /var/tmp: total 20 drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 12 13:12 systemd-private-08e8615f9c6645b3b603d3ddb01a1edb-rtkit-daemon.service-oGu62f drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 11 19:53 systemd-private-312cad7b6dbe429fa65c3602cf7c0a1d-rtkit-daemon.service-IpLjBC drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jul 11 19:50 systemd-private-6d2e2648c6174d879be768dd8f6946b6-rtkit-daemon.service-uSndig drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 7 21:48 systemd-private-8c0cc04acec746c59f974b045b7dd8ae-rtkit-daemon.service-AarJXq drwx------ 3 root root 4096 Jun 23 13:17 systemd-private-951aa0a1a04f458fa51724cd9e218136-rtkit-daemon.service-K9V3BQ /var/tmp/systemd-private-08e8615f9c6645b3b603d3ddb01a1edb-rtkit-daemon.service-oGu62f: total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 12 13:12 tmp /var/tmp/systemd-private-08e8615f9c6645b3b603d3ddb01a1edb-rtkit-daemon.service-oGu62f/tmp: total 0 /var/tmp/systemd-private-312cad7b6dbe429fa65c3602cf7c0a1d-rtkit-daemon.service-IpLjBC: total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 11 19:53 tmp /var/tmp/systemd-private-312cad7b6dbe429fa65c3602cf7c0a1d-rtkit-daemon.service-IpLjBC/tmp: total 0 /var/tmp/systemd-private-6d2e2648c6174d879be768dd8f6946b6-rtkit-daemon.service-uSndig: total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jul 11 19:50 tmp /var/tmp/systemd-private-6d2e2648c6174d879be768dd8f6946b6-rtkit-daemon.service-uSndig/tmp: total 0 /var/tmp/systemd-private-8c0cc04acec746c59f974b045b7dd8ae-rtkit-daemon.service-AarJXq: total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jun 7 21:48 tmp /var/tmp/systemd-private-8c0cc04acec746c59f974b045b7dd8ae-rtkit-daemon.service-AarJXq/tmp: total 0 /var/tmp/systemd-private-951aa0a1a04f458fa51724cd9e218136-rtkit-daemon.service-K9V3BQ: total 4 drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Jun 23 13:17 tmp /var/tmp/systemd-private-951aa0a1a04f458fa51724cd9e218136-rtkit-daemon.service-K9V3BQ/tmp: total 0 root@rock64:~# IOW, the */tmp's are all empty. But ntpd is burning up the sd card, logging an attempt to access a timeserver about every 2 seconds. Thanks Mark. -- Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
