Hi Don, Don Wright writes:
> [ ... ASCII using Expert (text) from devuan_ascii_2.0.0_amd64_dvd-1.iso ...] > > Upon successful boot into the system things looked good locally, until I > tried to SSH to the box. Not there! While /etc/network/interfaces has the > settings I expected, the GUI showed wicd had ignored them and called DHCP to > create all new and mostly wrong settings. > > #apt remove wicd soon cleaned that up, but who the systemd thought it was a > good idea to ignore! working! static! IP! settings! and install an unwelcome > network mangler in the first place? Take a purgative, get your heads out of > your ASCII, and stop your wicd ways from overriding traditional handcrafted, > all-natural, artisanal, text-based config files. The output of `apt-cache rdepends wicd` using various combinations of the --recurse and --no-* options indicate that just about any, if not all, of the task-*-desktop packages recommend it, either directly or indirectly. Some may even prefer network-manager ... putting you between a rock and a hard place. > The guilty parties should lose an inch of *nix beard each in penance. The guilty parties would mostly be the task-*-desktop packagers ;-) but if you are comfortable with the installer's Expert mode, why not forego the installation of a desktop and run apt install task-desktop wicd- after the initial system install? > [ Semi-humorous howls of rage aside: Does the installed system ignore static > IP by design? ] Not if you don't install a desktop ;-) # You mentioned installing on a Lenove Think*Server*. I *never* put a # desktop on my servers ... Hope this helps, -- Olaf Meeuwissen, LPIC-2 FSF Associate Member since 2004-01-27 GnuPG key: F84A2DD9/B3C0 2F47 EA19 64F4 9F13 F43E B8A4 A88A F84A 2DD9 Support Free Software https://my.fsf.org/donate Join the Free Software Foundation https://my.fsf.org/join _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
