On 2013-03-31, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 04:45:50PM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote > >> Those 70-* and 80-* are in udev pkg_postinst, this news item, >> everywhere... can all 3 be deleted if you haven't modified them yourself. >> >> So that leaves one... local.rules... dunno about that. I'm curious. > > One paragraph you should add to the news item is... > >======================================================================= > > Users who change interface names will need to search, as root, for > references to eth[0-9] in their config files. Then they will have to
"references to *their network devices* in their config files. [...]" And maybe provide something like "If you want a quick way to generate a list of network devices affected by udev persistency rules, run: grep -o 'NAME="[^"]*"' /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" although I don't know for sure how reliable is this in other systems/shells. > change the config files to reflect the new names. At least the > following search is suggested... > > grep -rl eth[0-9] /etc /var/lib > > Also any custom firewall/routing/network scripts in other locations > should be searched for references to eth[0-9]. > >======================================================================= > -- Nuno Silva (aka njsg) http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/
