[Cialug] Ubuntu server name resolution!

[Paul Gray]

On 05/17/2016 03:30 PM, Tom Sellers wrote:
> Thank you for your suggestion to remove network manager!  Is this something
> that was added between versions .2 and .5?

I don't keep track of the minutia of Ubuntu packages and sub-versions of
packages.  You asked how to prevent your system from behaving badly -
removing network-manager will stop network manager from clobbering your
/etc/resolv.conf.

> As for the upgrade advise, I didn't want to leave the LTS version I
> currently run at present although I will consider it.

You can dist-upgrade within a release.  dist-upgrade is different from
"do-release-upgrade".

Specifically from the man page:

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dist-upgrade

       in addition to performing the function of upgrade,
       also intelligently handles changing dependencies with new versions
       of packages; apt-get has a "smart" conflict resolution system, and
       it will attempt to upgrade the most important packages at the
       expense of less important ones if necessary. So, dist-upgrade
       command may remove some packages. The /etc/apt/sources.list file
       contains a list of locations from which to retrieve desired package
       files. See also apt_preferences(5) for a mechanism for overriding
       the general settings for individual package

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Suggestion: Plop your old drive in and give
                apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade
            a test.

-Paul