On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Konstantin Olchanski <olcha...@triumf.ca>wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 10:24:42AM -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > > well thats mostly due to the fact that its new and far more complex. > > there was a mad rush for every one to rewrite there statup scripts and > > quite a few of them weren't done very well and others weren't fully > > thought out. > > My prediction is that it is going to be like the HAL/UDEV story. Before, > if you wanted to automatically "chmod a+wr /dev/ttyUSB*", you just put it > in /etc/rc.local. Now you have to write some arcane udev rules that have to > be adjusted for every new os update. Documentation and examples are absent. > > Also same as the NetworkManager introduction. Something that was described > in many books is replaced with something described by a few paragraphs > in some obscure malformatted wiki. For example the fact that on SL > the NM settings are stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* > files > is documented (I was able to find the obscure wiki that mentions > this in passing), but documentation for the exact format and meaning > of the different entries is absent. > I don't necessarily disagree with your worries about the future. But I must add that the networking config scripts for our favorite distro and its cousins have been located in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts for many years, long before the advent of NetworkManager. > K.O. > > > -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Jeffrey Anderson | jdander...@lbl.gov Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Office: 50A-5104E | Mailstop 50A-5101 Phone: 510 486-4208 | Fax: 510 486-4204
