On Sun, 26 Sep 2010 15:11:48 -0700 Craig White wrote: > I would probably classify that as pathologically stupid system > administration considering the relative ease you can change even a lot > of ifcfg-* scripts with a simple sed command but the great thing about > UNIX/Linux is that the superuser is entitled to admin his own box - even > with really bad conceptual practices. Some releases of ubuntu have been exceptionally stubborn. They don't use ifcfg-* scripts, and the docs available on the release didn't match the actual behavior of the system, so as opposed to spending several days of research, chattr was much simpler :-). Opensuse is also totally different, not using PEERDNS, but at least opensuse provides an actual comment in the generated /etc/resolve.conf file telling you how to modify the default (which is good, because they can't make up their mind how it should work, and they seem to change it in every single opensuse release). I do wish providing comments in automagically generated config files like resolve.conf and others was a blocker for releases. If the generated file doesn't have an accurate comment describing how to modify the way it was generated, you shouldn't be able to inflict the release on the world, but right now opensuse seems to be the only distro I've seen that provides the comment. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
