On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 02:48:14PM -0600, Tim McDonough wrote:
Anyone have a recommendation for a good reference/tutorial on systemd as it applies to Debian Jessie?It's very frustrating to work on configuring static IPs, SSHD ports, etc. and never knowing which files are the correct ones to edit. For that matter, with systemd now in place why the heck were the old config files and scripts left in place if they aren't used?
As far as I'm aware, just because systemd CAN configure networking, doesn't mean that it does. And in fact, in Debian, it doesn't. The Debian Reference Manual [1] (which should be considered gospel in these matters), states that the preferred methods fore configuring the network are either network-manager or wicd for a graphical desktop machine, or /etc/network/interfaces otherwise.
I would not expect this to change in Stretch and, even if systemd is brought in to manage the task, the principle of least surprise would suggest that some sort of adapter is developed so that people can still use /etc/network/interfaces to configure it. (Basically, /e/n/i should be expected to be Debian's network configuration file, regardless of which tool applies that configuration).
[1] https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html
Tim
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