On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 18:26 +0100, paul.mcma...@met.police.uk wrote: > There is absolutely no way I would have figured that out in under a > week. > The Ubuntu Community is great, especially with questions such as this, > but for the average user (with limited technical knowledge or > understanding) a GUI for these sorts of things would be a better > solution.
There *is* a GUI for this (I'm looking at it in 9.04): System -> Preferences -> Network connections. The question was specifically how to do it on the command line: On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 10:09 -0700, Dane Mutters wrote: > Just an example that I was arguing with yesterday: /etc/resolv.conf. > It's auto-generated by NetworkManager. I like NM; don't get me wrong, > but if you need to change the DNS (or other) settings from the command > prompt, it's really a pain. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss