PLEASE, anyone coding a configuration tool that creates or edits a standard configuration file that then has all of those ***** DON'T TOUCH THIS FILE ********* notices ......
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE tell the user/sysadmin how _to_ add entries to that file. I recently added a NIC and went into /etc/network/interfaces which is, according to O'Reilly Running Debian Linux and Linux Network Administration _the_right_place_to_make_changes and I'm confronted with those "don't touch this file" messages but not a clue as to how I _should_ set up the new interface the correct debian way. The message did say, "this file configured by etherconfig" or some such text but when I tried to run 'etherconfig' it didn't exist. There was a package etherconfig but no info in /usr/share/doc/etherconfig in how to reconfigure your interfaces. Thanks for hearing out my rant ... the core of which is to just add one more comment line telling the poor frazzeled sysadmin how the setup modification should be done. Thanks, Heitzso