On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 17:21:43 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 27 October 2018 14:21:23 Steve McIntyre wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > >On Saturday 27 October 2018 11:09:48 Steve McIntyre wrote: > > >> You keep on asserting this, but it's patently not true. That's a > > >> standard feature of Debian on all architectures. I understand > > >> you've seen problems, but it just needs debugging to see how things > > >> were broken in your case. :-( > > > > > >Then give me an install that can be made to work in a hosts file > > > defined local network that can accept a gateway statement in its > > > e/n/i file. The default install does NOT accept it until the network > > > has been brought up. And the syntax for the deprecated route > > > command is too complex to remember, then everybody wants me to use > > > ip-(mumble) for that without anything that resembles a man page to > > > tell me how to use it for that. Thats the singular most obtuse man > > > pages group I've tried to make sense of in 35+ years of making > > > networks work starting even before Hayes modems were the default. > > > > Right. The ip-* man pages are atrocious, I won't argue - they're > > basically not human-readable. :-( > > And who might we beat about the brow over that, I've already got the elm > club for that job carved. :)
Not really on topic but that's in tune with many of your posts. Violence is never a solution. (Your smiley doesn't take the edge off the implied threat). > > -- > Cheers, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- Since 1968, more than 1.5 million Americans have died in gun-related incidents in the USA. More than have been killed in war in US history. Defending freedom has a high price.
