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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 08:41:11
Message-Id: 20130331084101.GA5674@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt by Samuli Suominen
1 On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:45:50PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote
2
3 > Those 70-* and 80-* are in udev pkg_postinst, this news item,
4 > everywhere... can all 3 be deleted if you haven't modified them yourself.
5 >
6 > So that leaves one... local.rules... dunno about that. I'm curious.
7
8 One paragraph you should add to the news item is...
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12 Users who change interface names will need to search, as root, for
13 references to eth[0-9] in their config files. Then they will have to
14 change the config files to reflect the new names. At least the
15 following search is suggested...
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17 grep -rl eth[0-9] /etc /var/lib
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19 Also any custom firewall/routing/network scripts in other locations
20 should be searched for references to eth[0-9].
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24 --
25 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
26 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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[gentoo-dev] Re: Request of news item review: 2013-03-29-udev-predictable-network-interface-names.en.txt "Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt>