Just a few things. One is that this beta seems much more stable, to which
I am very thankful. However, I think some of the services need some more
(or better) descriptions. For example, ipop3 (has no description), cfd
(I've never heard of this one before), and lvs (new to me too). I also
noticed xinetd appears twice. One last thing on services: there are many
services which do the same thing.. how do I know which one to choose? For
example, sendmail and postfix.. xinetd on inetd.. do some things rely on
one services and not the other?
Root is getting some weird emails.. one is from Anacron.. subject Anacron
job 'cron.daily':
"DB2 problem...: missing or empty key value specified
hash map "Alias0": unsafe map file /etc/aliases.db: Symbolic links not
allowed..."
This is repeated a few times in the same email and then finished off with:
"slocate: this is not a valid slocate
database: /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db"
I'm also getting emails saying:
"errors occured while rotating /var/log/mail/mail.warn
stat of /var/log/mail.warn failed: No such file or directory"
Another email is about servers/telnet: localhost. The long and the short
of it is:
localhost: problem connecting to "localhost", port 23: Connection
refused."
Now, I've disabled telnet in inetd.conf. Is this the problem?
Lastly, I noticed something interesting when I tried to do a clean
install. After selecting my partitions, I wanted to format /usr and /
.. so I selected those. Upon reboot after installation, I noticed that all
my previous files were there still. In other words, although it said
formating, it didn't actual format. I tried this again using the format
option in the partition section (i.e. the button that says format) and it
didn't do anything. I had to do a rm -rf instead. It was quite odd. Is it
my machine?
Nothing else to report really, except that X picks a higher resolution
than I would like every time, even though I select a lower one. This isn't
new, as it happens in 7.1 as well, and is a quick fix once I boot up.
JP
