Any reference on /etc/network/*

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 23:00:52 UTC 2008


On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 3:37 PM, Chris Mohler <cr33dog at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 11:23 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> An easy way to view the man pages is to simply us F1 (System|Help...) -
>>> or from the terminal: yelp
>>>
>>> When help comes up: Advanced Topics|Terminal Commands...|Configuration
>>> Files|Interfaces etc.
>>
>> Thats the easy way ?
>>
>> If you're running Gnome, hit Alt-F2 to bring up the run box, then type
>> man:interfaces
>> Don't forget the colon.
>> It'll get you to exactly the same place NoOp is sending you, without
>> using the rat-tailed clicking thingy....
>
> Odd -  typing 'man:interfaces' into the 'Run' box gives me this:
> The requested URI "man:///interfaces" is invalid

Well I'll be durned.

You know, I do test these things.  And I did this time too.  And it
works exactly the way I described, using Debian testing.... :-(

But I swear I've done that in Ubuntu before too!  Does anybody have a
gutsy box handy to try it on?  Maybe behaviour changed?

Brian




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