On Thursday 29 December 2005 19:10, Duncan wrote: > How do you figure? One size doesn't fit all, but you are asking that your > size fits all?
No, whomever made apache2 "need net" instead of "use net" made the decision for me (negating the admin). Now, I cannot use apache2 locally with my laptop without changing rc.conf. Just for comparison NFS would be pretty useless without a non-lo network and yet amazingly it's listed as "use net", not "need net" (portmap too). > As for discovering the variable, it's the job of a sysadmin, which in > effect everyone choosing to run Gentoo on their system is, to be familiar > with at least the basic settings on their installation. This is one such > basic setting, in a very general location, too, not hidden away, > impossible to find. Being expected to be aware of such basic settings > just comes with the territory. I know the variable well. Obviously Mr. Milesi did not, and in this particular case it seems an assumption, apache is only useful across a non-local connection, has bit him. I like Gentoo and have used it for years, because it usually doesn't make assumptions for me. Also, discussions like this rarely devolve into pissing matches like I was used to with other distros previously. On another note, I use softlevels/custom inits extensively to work around problems like this one. I can't imagine I'm the only one. I've also extended the softlevels to conf.d, so I have a conf.d-laptopoffline directory to correspond to the softlevel laptopoffline for alternate configs. I'm not sure if this is supported otherwise. I use this for laptops and cold spare servers (change their config completely at boot or with init). dave -- [email protected] mailing list
