[PLUG] Networking problem. (warning, newbie alert)

[simon]

Alex Nordstrom (lx at se.linux.org) wrote:

> That looks like Geemail being silly and clobbering the plaintext version
> when sending messages with mime HTML garbage attached. Yet another
> reason to turn off the noise generation misfeature.

ahhhh, not me then.  I dont use gmail.


> > I dont know specifically about ubuntu, but have a sniff around
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. You might find a file in there called
> > ifcfg-eth0 or similar.
>
> Not in Debian and derived distros (such as Ubunubununtu). There, it's
> normally /etc/network/interfaces, which has a different format
> altogether. See 'man 5 interfaces'. This is used by ifup and ifdown,
> which are probably run at boot.

Ahhhh ofcourse, I forgot Debian detest the LSB cos they know better, and are
striving to destroy any form of standard whatsoever :)


>
> Lee, before you get into modifying that, it may be nice to get things
> working solidly manually, though, and understanding what you did to
> make it work, so you know exactly what to put there.
....

All good advice. Amazing what crap I can come up with at midnight!

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