--- Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 27 February 2003 11:49 pm, Lyvim Xaphir wrote: > > --- Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Whatever you're all learning now, be prepared to unlearn when 9.1 comes > > > out because it's all different. I'm trying to figure it out in cooker > > > but it's a bear. > > > -- > > > Greg > > > > Surely you are not saying that /etc/sysconfig/network has disappeared. I > > had the impression that that config file was part of the SysVinit system, > > which has been a commonality across both RH and LM for a long time. It has > > never been part of the mcc specific stuff, as far as I know. > > > No, it's still there, just all this zeroconf stuff is mucking up the works. I > cannot get Mandrake to override the hostname given out by the dhcp server, so > my box that should be named cooker is dhcppc5 instead. > > In addition to /etc/sysconfig/hostname, there is > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(x) to contend with. I'll let you > know when I figure it out. :-) > -- > Greg
OK. Well...I guess I'm wondering some things at this point. First, was the system told to use dhcp? If so then you should be setting your hostname within /etc/dhcpd.conf instead of the sysconfig files, and therefore your system is acting properly. Second, the ..network-scripts/ifcfg-eth(x) files have also traditionally been part of the SysVinit system, which is near about as old as Red Hat's System 5 compatibility decision. I'm being somewhat facecious; System 5 goes back to the 70's, and was (mostly) adopted into the Posix standard later on. Red Hat adopted posix compatibility as a de facto standard. Or I should say has always attempted to be as close to posix as possible; some parts of it are obtuse to conform to. What I'm saying is that I have not seen anything yet that is zero-conf specific in what you are submitting. If zero-conf is mucking with your config files without your permission or knowledge, then my opinion is that advanced users should have an option available to deactivate it. LX __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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