On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:28:57PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > I'm playing around with schroot and when creating a chroot with > "type=directory" I at first failed to start it. The reason seems to be > the lack of the file "/etc/networks". I created an empty one, and > that was accepted by schroot. However, the man page (networks(5)) is > rather cryptic, so what is this file for? Would it not be better to > always have one (albeit empty) by default? '/etc/networks' lists IP networks, similar to how '/etc/hosts' lists individual hosts -- except it's not really used for anything, which is why some distros stopped including it. I think `route` from net-tools is the only command that still uses the names defined in '/etc/networks'. For example: | loopback 127 | link-local 169.254 | home-lan 192.168.42 | # no CIDR support, by the way -- Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, 0xD24F6CB2C1B52632
