Anyone running Server on a Raspberry Pi 4?

[Tom H]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:04 AM Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 at 20:44, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:


>> To be fait, Oliver G said "wipe out /etc/netplan", but he then cat-ed
>> a file inside that directory. So misunderstanding that "/etc/netplan"
>> is a file is rather weird.
>
> I was recounting how I processed it in my head as I read it. Apologies
> for any confusion. :-)

Oh. OK. No problem. LOL


>> Your initial yaml was created by cloud-init. And, IIRC, if you hadn't
>> removed cloud-init, it would've been recreated.
>
> This is one of the reasons I nuked it, apart from not needing it --
> the warnings all over the place that it might rewrite my config files
> if it felt like it.
>
>> BTW, the config generated by netplan'll be in
>> "/run/NetworkManager/system-connections" if you're using
>> NetworkManager and in "/run/systemd/network" if you're using networkd.
>
> I don't know, but the machine is headless with no GUI or X.11
> installed. I thought NetworkManager was a GNOME thing? I removed the
> only GNOME component I could find -- it was trying to regenerate
> search indices or something. I'm afraid I've forgotten what it was
> called.

NetworkManager's developed under the Gnome umbrella, but it's
independent (and welcomes criticism!).

In Fedora and RHEL, NM's the default networking framework for non-X
and X installations.

In Ubuntu, installing NM installs some components useful for X
installations only. I asked whether the dependencies could be reduced
a few years ago and I was told "no." That's life :)

There was a company where I worked that ran RHEL, CentOS, and Ubuntu,
and the IT manager wanted us to use NM everywhere. So I recompiled and
packaged NM on Ubuntu to be less heavy. After six months, I was asked
to start recompiling and packaging it with the "ifcfg-rh" plugin
included so as to use Red Hat's ifcfg format on all servers. [ OT:
Quite frankly, I don't understand why the "ifupdown" plugin's still
packaged. I doubt that anyone uses it, and it can't handle anything
but basic setups. ]


> The machine has never had any form of GUI and was only connected to a
> monitor for initial setup and testing of the drives...
>
> https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/liam_on_linux/10092558/612/612_original.jpg
>
> (The RasPi is the silvery brick by the trackball.)
>
> Pic from here: https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/71093.html

Thanks :)