Dear Maintainer,

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   * What led up to the situation?
Istalling and using ifupdown2 when not using systemd, the /ru/network etc. directories isn't setup and ifup fails with errors relating to the fact it can't check for a similar process running concuretly
   * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
     ineffective)?
The solution is to download https://github.com/CumulusNetworks/ifupdown2/blob/master/etc/init.d/networking into the /etc/init.d directory and running update-rc.d
   * What was the outcome of this action?A
That action fixed the issue
   * What outcome did you expect instead?
The file included by default by the packaging system

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