On Mon 27 Aug 2018 at 19:21:00 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 27 August 2018 15:59:09 David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 26 Aug 2018 at 14:24:23 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 26 August 2018 13:36:41 Pascal Hambourg wrote: > > > > Le 26/08/2018 à 17:24, Gene Heskett a écrit : > > > > > Most recently on a stretch install on a rock64 I had to erect > > > > > immutable attributes to resolv.conf after making it a real file, > > > > > and e-n-i to make networking Just Work. > > > > > > > > /etc/resolv.conf is a rather different topic, because it is not > > > > related to a specific interface and may be written by several > > > > pieces of software, including but not limited to NetworkManager > > > > when configuring *any* interface. I would suggest using resolvconf > > > > but I suspect you would not like it either. > > > > > > Ohkaay, but where's the docs on this mysterious resolvconf? > > > > > > What we do have is missing (wheezy) or horribly incomplete (jessie). > > > > > > But I'll have to take that back, my apologies. I just read the > > > stretch version on that rock64. And as man pages go, its decent. > > > And I'll have to do some experimenting as its possible I can train > > > it to behave. > > > > > > And curious I blink compared the jessie vs stretch versions, > > > stretch's is both longer AND more complete, and two different > > > authors and formatted completely different. And wheezy doesn't even > > > have the man page. I don't even know if it should, maybe not for > > > wheezy, lots of water has been recycled since those installs were > > > made, so I'll plead oldtimers. > > > > This is very strange. I just did (in 80 column xterms):
[snipped various properties of resolvconf's man page on wheezy/jessie/stretch.] > > So one can't help wondering exactly what is installed on your machines > > if things don't match. Note that there are significant differences > > between the different versions, so following the stretch/jessie man > > page could give you problems on a wheezy machine. (I haven't checked > > out backports.) > > What is installed on 4 of the 6 boxes here, is a wheezy install thats > been tweaked to A: put a realtime kernel on it so it can run linuxcnc on > real hardware. The stretch I'll install here after my new drive cage > arrives, and I found today that newegg's fedex is a week for delivery, > its not expected to arrive here before Thursday evening, has also been > tweaked to run LinuxCNC, probably by a real time kernel replacement.. Which kernel you run should have no connection with the contents of Debian's resolvconf packages. You should still have these three: 4575 Jun 19 2012 /usr/share/man/man8/resolvconf.8.gz 4500 Jan 27 2015 /usr/share/man/man8/resolvconf.8.gz 4500 May 19 2016 /usr/share/man/man8/resolvconf.8.gz Cheers, David.
