On Tuesday 27 August 2019 16:01:30 Brian wrote: > On Tue 27 Aug 2019 at 14:27:02 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I've just swapped machines because that failed one got nailed by a > > lightning surge while I was in the shop with a heart attack. 3 > > different psu's didn't restore the green led in a decade old dell, > > so I swapped the whole box except for the HD. > > > > But udevs UN-persistent rules have apparently run out of eth0 names, > > renaming the only ethernet port it has to eth2. So I either rename > > it to eth2 in /e/n/i, or kill the rule that advances the name. > > Since those old dells only come with one port, I'd much druther have > > a fixed name. > > > > What, in wheezy, /lib/udev/rules.d rule do I nuke so eth0 remains > > eth0 regardless of which box I put that drive in? > > The subject header is completely uninformative. The subject body is > unformative but unintellible.
Oh, I'd argue the point. udev has been accused of being uptight and cantankerous many times before. Surely I am not the first to call it an ass. Supposedly invented to make things more stable, but here it has never been in a same building with the word stable. OTOH, Brian, since I actually do use computers to do useful work, something that seems well beyond your ability to comprehend why I should want them to do real work, I will continue asking them to Just Do It. Sharpening fingers pointed in my direction will generally be ignored, once I have ascertained the source. > (P.S. > Could we have posts without medical details. They make me feel quesy). Life, fully lived, can and will have its queasy moments. Perhaps you are overdue of an annual physical? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
