--- In "naturalwatt" <> wrote:
>
> --- In tom campbell <content@> wrote:
> I have been bitten by this as well, leaving an ifcfg-etho.prev or similar.
> Now I leave the old file as ORIG-ifcfg-eth0.
>
> I'm afraid if this counts as one of your top 10 bugs, you've obviously not
> been doing this for too long! (No offence meant - it's just that this is
> relatively innocuous and you've got a lot more unpleasant experiences to
> come).
>
> If you try and raise this as a bug you're likely to get the response, it's
> not a bug, it's a feature.
>
> Regards,
>
> Martin
>
> >
> > Hello:
> >
> > I'm posting this "bug" to users group in hopes of saving someone else
> > some time and to embeddedarm tech support in case they want to "fix it"
> > and or pass it "upstream" (whereever that is)
> >
> > This one goes on my top 10 "bugs". Sometime in the hopefully distant
> > future when I'm in the old programmers bar, I'll tell this one as "war
> > story".
> >
> > It's also a good example of why software is always late.
> >
> > I was switching the network of a TS-7260 from the 192.x.x.x to my
> > 10.x.x.x address. I had the root filesystem of TS-7260 mounted on my
> > host and was trying to boot from it on TS-7260 via NFS.
> >
> > I was editing etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 "host side", changing 192.x.x.x
> > => 10.x.x.x. I expected it to be a cookie cutter operation. Well, it
> > failed. The TS-7260 started the boot, lots of network activity, and
> > just hung.
> >
>
> ps - don't try to get an emacs versus vi argument going - but this wouldn't
> happen with another editor.
>
Well it's not just emacs, there are lots of editor writers that now seem to
think we need to backup our underware before farting. I hate being treated as a
windows-user moron and having my disk space spammed with useless copies so the
first thing I have to do is find out how to turn these features off.
However, in the case of a trivial edit to a config file as discussed here, I
find it much simpler to dupe the original LINE rather than the file, comment
out the dupe and make my new settings. Having the original line just above is
more useful and does not create a new file for the sake of a 16 byte diff.
Added bonus of this least change strategy is not making bogus configuration
scripts in important directories. ;)
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