Some random stuff that came up as I was working on my network using Pi.
I was attempting to get a bash script to run a boot time. Adding to the rc.local did not work and apparently is to be depreciated. Reviewing the options I could find I used cron well my history with x86 Linux distributions told me that cron is started by default at install time. Seems not so with the Pi you have to enable it and start it, not running by default. Once running worked great
Dnsmasq has some weirdness also. I don’t understand the details but the general reports on the web (reddit etc) imply that the “bind-interfaces ” setting is required and there are a few that say it is not needed. Well in my case, if set the Dnsmasq would not work. Removed the dnsmasq did exactly what was expect and the downstream computers had no problem.
In my case a Pi running Mycroft. I have plans to create some commands but that is another day.
…and so ends this post