[GTALUG] Network down after reboot

[Bob Jonkman]

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El Fontanero wrote:
> This is why the truly paranoid just set up /etc/ as a git 
> repository...

I have recently discovered the packager 'etckeeper':

https://joeyh.name/code/etckeeper/

> etckeeper is a collection of tools to let /etc be stored in a git, 
> mercurial, darcs, or bzr repository. It hooks into apt (and other 
> package managers including yum and pacman-g2) to automatically
> commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It tracks file
> metadata that revison control systems do not normally support, but
> that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow.
> It's quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use
> if you understand the basics of working with revision control.

Available directly from the Debian repositories...

- --Bob.


On 2016-05-31 12:41 AM, El Fontanero wrote:
> On 31/05/16 12:34 AM, William Witteman wrote:
>> I have always set up networking in a text file - very
>> explicitly. I thought that something Gnome-y had wormed its way
>> in there and "helped".
>> 
>> However, I have a partial solution - I ran an "ifup eth0", and I 
>> have a network again.  What I wonder now is why isn't that 
>> happening when I boot up?
>> 
> That is odd. udev is correct, network/interfaces is OK.  Perhaps 
> it's time to look over the logs, or poke through /etc/rc?.d/ and 
> /etc/init.d to see if anything has gone astray.  Again, my
> experience of Network Manager, whatever its foibles, has at least
> stayed out of the way of whatever I had set up in
> network/interfaces.
> 
> This is why the truly paranoid just set up /etc/ as a git 
> repository...
> 
> This is also what you get when systems have uptimes reaching
> hundreds of days, as opposed to needing to reboot every hour or
> two.
> 
> Cheers, Mike --- Talk Mailing List talk at gtalug.org 
> https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
> 


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