And last little bit - what is the linux world thinking - spaces in file names? Good grief. (as well as very long names).
root@jessie:/etc/NetworkManager# ls -l system* total 4 -rw------- 1 root root 260 May 1 22:44 Wired connection 1 On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Michael Felt <aixto...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe something else to add to the release notes - the new > /etc/NetworkManager/* (I hate long names and caps - I know this is not > UNIX, but one of the goals of UNIX was to keep things short, fewer key > presses, and less output (the example given was IBM 'mainframe' that gave a > page of text for a command that had no output - making it much easier to > start the 'pipe' concept - only send the output) compared to /etc/network/* > for configuring (static) interfaces. > > imho a real pain - every distribution of Linux has a different way of > doing things (although I am beginning to think it is a different version of > Linux - change things because we can - because every distribution of Linux > seems to be a different version of Linux). > > Previous UNIX vendors would have been hung out to dry for this kind of > 'change management (read mis-management). (imho). > > Anyway, please add NetworkManager - and other core Linux changes, or a > link to 'Linux-world' changes - although I would expect Debian to take > responsibility for the list of changes between: > Linux wheezy 3.2.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.68-1+deb7u1 ppc64 > GNU/Linux > and > Linux jessie 3.16.0-4-powerpc64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt9-3 (2015-04-23) > ppc64 GNU/Linux > > my two cents. > > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > >> On Sat, 2015-05-02 at 11:15 +0200, Michael Felt wrote: >> [...] >> >> > BTW: I notice a slight difference in how 'login as root' works between >> > wheezy and jessie. On both systems I have enabled 'root login' for my >> > initial tests. With wheezy I cannot login as root on the console, but >> > can login using ssh. On Jessie this is the reverse. I assume this is >> > deliberate. >> [...] >> >> The ssh part: yes, and that's documented in the release notes: >> < >> https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#openssh >> >. >> >> The console part: I don't think so; this is probably a bug in wheezy. >> The last time I had that sort of problem, it was due to an omission from >> the file /etc/securetty (list of devices that root may log in through). >> But in wheezy that file does include hvc0. >> >> Ben. >> >> -- >> Ben Hutchings >> Q. Which is the greater problem in the world today, ignorance or apathy? >> A. I don't know and I couldn't care less. >> > >
