[Wolves] Nervous breakdown

[David Goodwin]

> 1: Did an overlay installation of Fedora over RH9 (Now things like
> network control won't work plus other stuff) luckily a college said use
> the /sbin/ifup eth0:3 command
> 

Does Fedora not offer an "upgrade" path from RH9? I'm getting a bit fed 
up with RH9 on my desktop here to be honest. Might revert to 
Slackware-current soon.

> 2: Up2date stopped working but I solved that (I hope) with Yum
> 
> 3: Followed instructions (they are written down in a form that any fool
> can follow) to the letter for setting up cron jobs to run Sophos
> antivirus sweeps automatically and a script called Savget to update
> Sophos. Will it work? Will it bollocks! I can run them manually no
> problem (apart from sweeping the mail haven't figured that one out yet!)
> but as a cron? Don't be stupid I'd have more luck getting a pay rise.

Is the virus checking for Windows machines or the Linux box itself?

Make sure you specify the _full_ path to any executables you may be 
running in a cron script, as often $PATH is not set.
i.e. not "savget" but "/usr/bin/savget" or "/usr/local/bin/savget" or 
where ever it is.


> 
> 4: Spent all day Saturday (09:00 to 19:00) trying to get the laptop
> (Fedora) to talk to the pc (Suse) Matt kindly sent info but all to no
> avail nearly threw everything out the window and was tempted to give up
> on Linux altogether.

If you assigned them similar IP addresses (e.g. 192.168.0.1 and 
192.168.0.2) were you able to ping each other?
Did the output from ifconfig show that the cards were correctly 
configured? Were any lights (on the network cards, or hubs) flashing?

If you are positive you have e.g. networking working ok under Windows, 
then try pinging one box while it's running windows from the other 
running Linux - this would verify that the linux box is configured ok - 
often with two hosts it's hard to tell which isn't cooperating!


> 
> 5. My mails to the list seem to be selective some get through some
> don't.

I think Jono might have fixed that now ?

> 
> 6: Got some half loaded programs from the Linux Format cover disks
> spewed over the Fedora system because make install did not work and I
> don't know how to clean off part installed programs that have been
> installed using ./configure, make, make install.

Try "make uninstall" it sometimes works. Otherwise don't worry, or stick 
with packages (e.g. .rpm )

> 
> 7: I'm convinced my Fedora has 2 billion faults and errors on it even
> though it eventually fires up and I can browse the Internet, send emails
> and write and save documents. However I really don't want to wipe it and
> install again as I don't think it would resolve much other than having
> only 1 billion as apposed to 2 billion problems.
> 

Well - at least half your problems would have been solved!

> 8: My total Linux claim to fame at present stands at "I can turn the
> poxy thing on an off" impressive or what!

It's a start. We all start somewhere.


David