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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

Posts: 1,560

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FYI: The 'lo' loopback address is no longer required in etc/rc.conf

I just wanted to make a quick post about this because I have seen a couple of threads this week suggesting that users must always have the loopback address declared in the INTERFACES array.  This is no longer the case, as lo is enabled via the init-scripts now.

That means you can safely get rid of this stuff in /etc/rc.conf:

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
INTERFACES=(lo ...)

Granted, if you have other interfaces declared in the INTERFACES array then you shouldn't delete the entire array, but lo can be removed without issue.

Last edited by thayer (2007-11-27 16:20:20)

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thayer williams ~ cinderwick.ca

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: FYI: The 'lo' loopback address is no longer required in etc/rc.conf

Yep, learn to stay in the loop with new config changes:

grep pacnew$ /var/log/pacman.log | tail
alias dotpac='find /boot /etc -name '*.pac*' 2>/dev/null'

(there's also a dotpac in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … 1&ID=3017)

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