[Gllug] Problem starting up

[Sean Burlington]

I've just been having fun and games setting up RH7.1

seems to work OK if it auto-detects your NIC's...

there diesn't seem to be a /etc/hostname

/etc/sysconfig/network
and 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-*

seem to be the main places for setting hostname

/etc/hosts and /etc/resolve.conf are also important 

hmm.. I've been ofline for a bit and am now trawling through my mail so I'm bound to find someone else has answered this better than I have ...

oh well ... hope it's usefull to someone (BTW don't go to see Tomb Raider -it's BAD)


Sean


On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 08:48:59AM +0100, Brent Geach wrote:
> in /etc/hosts
> 
> 127.0.0.1       shadow.prv.uk.itouchnet.net shadow localhost localhost.localdomain
> 
> where shadow is my machine name, prv.uk.itouchnet.net is my domainn
> That should sort sendmail and lpd out for you
> 
> Brent
> 
> On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 12:17:46AM +0100, Simon Bunker wrote:
> > That is exactly the problem - and yup - Red Hat 7.1 :o) What is the hosts
> > file meant to look like? I think I only changed /etc/hosts - do I need to
> > change /etc/hostname too? Or does sendmail have it's own configuration that
> > needs to be run?
> > 
> > I did manage to get back in using the "Interactive startup" and just turning
> > sendmail off when it asked me. I can't be bothered waiting five minutes for
> > a timeout! Looks like it's fixable at least, but what needs to be changed to
> > get it right again?
> > 
> > thanks
> > 
> > Simon
> > http://www.rendermania.com/
> > UIN 11123737
> > 
> > > There is a problem in your /etc/hosts file, it's not resolving the
> > hostname correctly.
> > > This would cause lpd to not start and make sendmail take a while to try
> > start on bootup. But it wont make the machine totally unbootable, just take
> > a little while to get past sendmail.
> > > I found that linuxconf had this problem. netcfg also made a lovelly mess
> > of my /etc/hosts file on redhat 7.1, I tend to try steer clear of these as
> > they have caused me lots headaches in the past, especially when I tried to
> > let linuxconf configure apache for me!
> > >
> > > Brent
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:31:15AM +0100, Simon Bunker wrote:
> > > > Hi all
> > > >
> > > > Ok I think I've just made a small mistake - hopefully one that can be
> > solved
> > > > the Linux way - ie not reinstalling the Operating system. I needed to
> > change
> > > > the name of my computer for some software that needs a host for its
> > license,
> > > > so I thought this would be fairly simple - changed it in linuxconf...and
> > > > then something else told me to change it in /etc/hosts which I did.
> > > >
> > > > However it looks like there are a few other things I should have done.
> > At
> > > > the moment it halts at starting up the sendmail daemon just after the
> > lpd
> > > > daemon (which is no problem if that doesn't start - hardly as critical).
> > > >
> > > > Is there any way around this? Is there some way of dropping to a lower
> > init
> > > > level so these things don't get started and I can get back in? And what
> > do I
> > > > need to change to get things working again. I haven't really messed
> > around
> > > > with these sorts of things so it should be an interesting learning
> > > > experience.
> > > >
> > > > Any pointers on where to start and get back going again? Luckily it is
> > on
> > > > seperate partitions so I could reinstall if I absolutely had to - but I
> > > > would obviously prefer not too.
> > > >
> > > > thanks
> > > >
> > > > Simon
> > > > http://www.rendermania.com/
> > > > UIN 11123737
> > > >
> > 
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