Hi all, I hope you can help me. We installed Linux (Red Hat 6.0) on one of our machines. However the network card that we use is not one of the default cards Red Hat supports. However we do have the source for its linux driver, so we went ahead. However, because during its installation Red Hat needs to probe or manually set the driver and none was available at install time, I installed it without network card support. Obviously it then neglected to ask me stuff like IP address, hostname etc. Once Red Hat was installed I compiled the driver and installed it correctly. The network card is now working fine. I also configured the IP, hostname etc. using the Xwindows program: netcfg. I was able to verify it by pinging other machines on the network. All fine upto now. However when I happened to reboot after testing all this a problem cropped up. The Apache daemon refuses to start. Giving an error something like this: Apache can't resolve local hostname. Use ServerName to configure manually. So I went to httpd.conf and changed the value of ServerName. However now httpd simply refused to start still, but no error message! Everything else seems to be working fine. I even uninstalled and reinstalled Apache but got the same result. My feeling is that Red Hat does something at install time to some config file somewhere when setting up a networked machine which it doesn't bother to do when on a standalone. Since I had to leave out the network card installation this is what happened. What I can't understand however is that netcfg hasn't corrected that. I even tried linuxconf - however it also clearly shows the hostname and everything seems to be alright and yet Apache remains down. Any ideas anyone? Thanks, Ishaaq - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
