/etc/network has no effect?

[OhmegaMember]

Hi,

I tried editing /etc/network (for example FTP_SERVER=false), and it doesn’t seem to have much effect.. After rebooting the system, the ftp server bftpd is still up and running

Of course I can disable everything using systemctl, but I’m just interested on what is the exact purpose of /etc/network? Which process is using it? Am I doing anything wrong?

Thanks

[togathMember]

Hi,

I just caputure this thread and put in my comments/questions too

I’m bit confused of the annotation in this section of /network.
For some daemons the flag is set in quotes for some not. Does it make any difference?
Maybe the quotes could be put in for all / none?

I’m just talking of the old armada-cubox, don’t know about the newer projects

To Gath

[Warped RudiModerator]

@togath: It’s the usual shell behaviour: if a string doesn’t contain characters that are considered as separators (like spaces or operators), the quotes can be omitted. If you use the quotes everywhere, you are on the safe side.

@Ohmega: /etc/network is a generalized configuration file. Some packages (e.g. the network backends) contain scripts, that convert the information from /etc/network into formats understood by these packages and/or create other system-wide configuration files from it. This allows us to switch network components without having to adapt the XBMC/Kodi network configuration addon. As for bftpd: It looks like this package is not honouring /etc/network :(.

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