From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QKiAk-0006u6-Mg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 May 2011 02:32:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72AAD1C04B; Fri, 13 May 2011 02:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2447E1C04B for ; Fri, 13 May 2011 02:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so1951265fxm.40 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.127.210 with SMTP id h18mr1060668fas.46.1305253828313; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail-fx0-f53.google.com (mail-fx0-f53.google.com [209.85.161.53]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d18sm669146fak.22.2011.05.12.19.30.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by fxm8 with SMTP id 8so1951257fxm.40 for ; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.28.19 with SMTP id k19mr201038fac.139.1305253827329; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.223.72.8 with HTTP; Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <201105122052.11961.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> References: <4DC9B435.9010308@gmail.com> <9260180.zqucrNWKER@eve> <4DCBD9E0.2010506@gmail.com> <201105122052.11961.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 19:30:27 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone? From: Manuel McLure To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 892e7f74fd9d41f1d05fc98bf6695dc1 Just ran into a gotcha with my main server upgrade to openrc/baselayout2 - it appears that the old ifconfig network syntax no longer works. I kept getting the message: Error: either "local" is duplicate, or "netmask" is garbage until I changed the syntax from config_eth0=3D"XX.YY.ZZ.WW broadcast XX.YY.ZZ.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" to config_eth0=3D"XX.YY.ZZ.WW/24" The other syntax worked in baselayout1. --=20 Manuel A. McLure WW1FA ...for in Ulthar, according to an ancient and significant law, no man may kill a cat.=C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2= =A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0=C2=A0 -- H.P. Lovecraft