On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 02:28:57PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
I'm playing around with schroot and when creating a chroot with "type=directory" I at first failed to start it. The reason seems to be the lack of the file "/etc/networks". I created an empty one, and that was accepted by schroot. However, the man page (networks(5)) is rather cryptic, so what is this file for? Would it not be better to always have one (albeit empty) by default?
'/etc/networks' lists IP networks, similar to how '/etc/hosts' lists individual hosts -- except it's not really used for anything, which is why some distros stopped including it. I think `route` from net-tools is the only command that still uses the names defined in '/etc/networks'. For example: | loopback 127 | link-local 169.254 | home-lan 192.168.42 | # no CIDR support, by the way -- Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@nullroute.eu.org>, 0xD24F6CB2C1B52632