Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Ticket #20626, comment 16
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- Jun 26, 2022 6:17:33 AM (2 years ago)
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Ticket #20626, comment 16
initial v1 4 4 What...? It needs the literal asterisk at the beginning of every line? What does that even signify? The syntax of this file, simple as it is, is never described in the documentation, just a few block-formatted examples of lines to add, and I thought the author just made a mistake in their markdown. There are other bullet point lists on the same page. The first thing I did was stick a CIDR range on a line -- the way everyone and the ambiguous documentation all imply -- and then when that did nothing, I assumed I was given bad information, which it turns out I was. 5 5 6 This is silly. Error messages that bark an obfuscatory code at the user instead of saying what it means are silly . You have the space to insert a localized string. You've done it for other error messages, like the one where the modules aren't loaded and it tells you to load the modules. Say what you mean.6 This is silly. Error messages that bark an obfuscatory code at the user instead of saying what it means are silly, and wasteful of everyone's time. You have the space to insert a localized string. You've done it for other error messages, like the one where the modules aren't loaded and it tells you to load the modules. Say what you mean. 7 7 8 8 And as a Linux sysadmin, thank you, but I have plenty of other ways (control groups) to stop your process assigning an address to an interface outside of what I want to allow. Your process does not get an opinion, and placing a configuration file in /etc to imply that it does makes little sense. Leave the system settings to the system.

