On Sat, Jun 10, 2017 at 04:18:42PM -0400, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > Anyone have tips for him right now.... *while he can read them* > related to the language appearing to switch teams on him?
When pasting commands and output to an English-speaking mailing list, it's often a good idea to do "export LC_ALL=C" beforehand. Unless your commands actually involve non-ASCII characters, or the behavior of a command in a non-C locale, in which case: good luck. As far as ifconfig goes (which, by the way, is considered deprecated by many people), the traditional syntax is: ifconfig <iface> <ip> netmask <netmask> You generally don't need to specify the broadcast address, or the network address. These can be calculated from the IP + netmask. Those options exist only for extremely bizarre networks that used "all zeros" for the broadcast instead of "all ones". No new networks should be set up this way.
