On Tue 17 May 2016 at 16:38:52 (+0200), Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> * Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> [2016-05-17 09:56 -0400]:
> > On Tuesday 17 May 2016 09:08:55 to...@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.
