[Toybox] complaining about 'ifconfig' - better use 'ip'

David Seikel onefang at gmail.com
Thu Apr 4 02:52:34 PDT 2013


On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 11:42:00 +0200 Bastian Bittorf
<bittorf at bluebottle.com> wrote:

> * David Seikel <onefang at gmail.com> [04.04.2013 11:25]:
> > My copy of the ifconfig man page does not mention the ip command,
> > and certainly does not say to switch.
> 
> http://linux.die.net/man/8/ifconfig
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/net-tools
> 
> (seems in debian this note on top is missing). debian is very
> conservative. arch linux is the other way around.

I was looking at the Ubuntu one, which likely inherited the Debian one.

> nobody should be annoyed:
> i just encourage you to "cut off old braids".

I have dreadlocks over a meter long that has taken me over a decade to
grow.  I'm not cutting them off.  :-P

-- 
A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants
coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world.
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