On 09/03/17 09:28, John Hodrien wrote:
I'll obviously argue I wasn't scaremongering. You can start with
CentOS, and
do anything you like with it, and as I've said, you're absolutely free
to do
that. But at some point, you have to accept that what you've got left
isn't
CentOS. If you don't use what the distribution provides, what you're
doing
isn't the distribution. Given you're getting no formal support on
this, that
possibly means little to you, but don't be surprised by the community
backing
away from providing unofficial support to something that's no longer
CentOS.
You see this sort of thing in a more extreme way with things like cPanel.
Well, let's put it this way, the more someone argues that I need to run
some software that I clearly don't need, the more I become suspicious of
what that software is doing. The network configuration of my servers is
static, it doesn't need to be changed once the server has booted up. So
it doesn't need some piece of software running away doing goodness knows
what... I'm just going to be waiting for it to bug or error out and
leave me high and dry without a network config.
I am not trying to suggest of encourage people to emulate what I have
done, I have just been making a point that if you want to run something
to manage your network configuration, and your network configuration is
clearly not going to change, then it might be simpler to hardcode that
configuration.
In any case, two alternatives have come out of this thread, the networkd
alternative, and the configure-and-exit parameter to NetworkManager.
I think it best we leave this thread to die, and accept that others will
not always do things your way and/or the Redhat/Centos way, but go on
their own path, and they will probably be happy to accept that this is
their own creation and the risks associated with that (no support /
unknown behaviour in certain circumstances etc...). Their creation may
address things that NetworkManager doesn't do in the future, and if
adopted everyone will benefit.
Is this the Catherdral or the Bazaar?
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Regards,
Giles Coochey
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