Linux-Setup Digest #123, Volume #21 Sat, 28 Apr 01 03:13:05 EDT
Contents:
GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound ("ET1Mac")
Re: Shell programming-- passing * to remote machine? (Colonel Panic)
Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Re: Q: Good web sites for linux docs and software please... (Jeremy Lunn)
Re: Squid&RH 7.0 (Jeremy Lunn)
Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound (olgnuby)
Re: HELP: Redhat 7.1 install error ("Rod")
Re: Poor screen quality ("Glitch")
What is the best Java chat server for Linux? ("Huy Vu")
What is the best software to do the creation of free email (for Linux)? ("Huy Vu")
Looking for free games server sw working on Linux ("Huy Vu")
Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Omar Lakkis)
Re: What is the best software to do the creation of free email (for (David)
Re: Looking for free games server sw working on Linux (David)
minimum install to compile packages (Red Hat) (Jimbo)
lilo version of RedHat 7.1 (jinp)
Re: RH7.1 Instal. can't write boot loader ("Eric en Jolanda")
What do i Actually need to install??? ("DC")
HELP: cannot install Mandrake 8.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-FX120 laptop (Donald Burr of Borg)
Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues ("Michael")
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From: "ET1Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 03:26:55 GMT
Thanx to those who answered a previous post, but I am still having some
difficulty.
I recompiled the kernel with sound enabled and no-sound modules. I
configured Alsa with the following
./config --with-sequencer=yes --with-isapnp=yes --with-debug=full.
Both compiling the kernel and building Alsa went ok. Then I edited
/etc/modules.conf with the following
alias char-major-116 snd
options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
options snd-card-interwave snd_index=0
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
Then I did the following: (Suggest by the ALSA Install guide and faq)
modprobe snd-card-ens1371
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
But still I have no sound.
A cat of /proc/modules:
snd-mixer-oss 4288 0 (autoclean)
snd-card-ens1371 2304 0 (autoclean)
snd-ens1371 13520 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-ens1371]
snd-pcm 36288 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 11104 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 10848 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 3888 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 27808 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371]
snd-mixer 28208 0 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss
snd-ens1371 snd-ac97-codec]
snd 41696 1 (autoclean) [snd-mixer-oss
snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371
snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device
snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer]
Any help is greatly appreciated.
v/r
ET1
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From: Colonel Panic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Shell programming-- passing * to remote machine?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 04:12:00 +0000
Bill Unruh previously ejaculated:
> I have a script which carries out commands on a number of remote
> machines. It contains a line like
>
> ssh remotename $1 $2 $3 $4 $5
>
> I now want to pass a * for globbing by the remote shell and cannot
> figure out how to do it.
>
> Let me say the command is doall
>
> Clearly
> doall ls *
> does not work, since the globbing is done on this command line on the
> local machine. Similarly doall ls '*' does not work. as this appears to
> get globbed at this end inside the shell command
> ssh remotename ls *
> (since the quotes are removed.)
> doall ls "'*'" also does not work, as I get
> ls: *: No such file or directory
> Ie, the * does seem to get passed to the remote
> machine but then is not globbed on that remote machine.
i haven't really got a clue but sometimes I get lucky with this sort of
thing! try:
doall ls \*
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 03:43:36 GMT
Do you turn the sound on with alsamixer?
Note the default is sound is off with the alsa drivers.
Just a thought.
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Crossposted-To:
aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Lunn)
Subject: Re: Q: Good web sites for linux docs and software please...
Date: 28 Apr 2001 13:55:41 +1000
In article <9c8gp6$cabaq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The 'master' site is www.linuxdoc.org.
Or be nice to the international backbones :)
An Australian mirror can be found at:
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/LDP/
--
Jeremy Lunn
ICQ: 19255837
http://jeremy.austux.net/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,aus.computers.linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Lunn)
Subject: Re: Squid&RH 7.0
Date: 28 Apr 2001 14:23:28 +1000
In article <LPky6.7727$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, KW wrote:
> We didn't have to change our firewall rules.. as long as you can get
> out on the masq you should be ok.. far as setting up squid, you can
> pretty much install the RPMS and goto the squid.conf file and go through
> it. The .conf explains itself pretty well. If you want to run it as a
> transparent proxy... you simply use prerouting to grab all packets on 80
> and send them to 3128 on squid... ;)
Transparent proxying is pretty pointless because for larges sites that
have many A records (most popular sites will), your hit rate will be
divided by the number of A records they have.
My suggestion would be to redirect to a webpage that explains how to
setup your proxy server or just block port 80.
As for firewall rules, just make sure squid can access outside sites.
And also make sure squid isn't listening on an outside interface. I
think you do this with tcp_incoming_address and upd_incoming_address (in
squid.conf). Set those to the IP address that your clients will access
the proxy server as (the IP address of eth0 in most cases).
--
Jeremy Lunn
ICQ: 19255837
http://jeremy.austux.net/
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 23:28:30 -0500
ET1Mac wrote:
>
> Thanx to those who answered a previous post, but I am still having some
> difficulty.
I believe about the only difference between you an I, which I can see,
right now is that you compiled without the --with-oss=yes set on
./configure, and possibly enabled sound built into the kernel instead of
choosing sound support as a module.
I wound up finally with the alsa-driver-0.5.10b, alsa-lib-0.5.10b and
alsa-utils-0.5.10, and by linking my 2.4.3 kernel build directory as
/usr/src/linux, I got the drivers, libs and utils to all build. That is
on a RH 6.1 glibc21 system.
Alsa seems to not understand the new 2.4.x kernels module directory
structure and puts, if I remember correctly, the new drivers in a
/lib/modules/2.4.3/misc directory instead of in the
/lib/modules/2.4.3/kernel/drivers/sound directory. (or was that on
Peanut Linux w/2.2.19 kernel) don't quote me for sure on that last
sentence. You'll just have to play it by ear on your system.
Anyway, it will put an option in your ntsysv setup for starting alsa on
system startup also. Or at least it did on mine.
The following in my /etc/modules.conf:
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
options snd-card-ens1371
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=2 radio=1
options msp3400 once=1
options tuner type=2 debug=1
gives me, in cat /proc/modules:
ppp_async 6288 1 (autoclean)
ppp_generic 16320 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async]
nls_cp437 4384 2 (autoclean)
vfat 11792 2 (autoclean)
fat 32576 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
snd-card-ens1371 2448 2 (autoclean)
snd-ens1371 12976 0 (autoclean) [snd-card-ens1371]
snd-pcm 37856 2 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371]
snd-timer 10688 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm]
snd-rawmidi 11648 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371]
snd-seq-device 4336 0 (autoclean) [snd-rawmidi]
snd-ac97-codec 26496 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371]
snd-mixer 30128 0 (autoclean) [snd-ens1371
snd-ac97-codec]
snd 43344 5 (autoclean) [snd-card-ens1371
snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec
snd-mixer]
soundcore 4144 2 (autoclean) [snd]
and identifies on my mixer panel with all the volume controls and etc as
SigmaTel STAC9708/11 with a video, phonein(modem riser or phone card I
reckon) line 1&2 and the normal Vol, Pcm, Speaker, Line, Mic, CD, IGain
etc.
One other think, I did compile the kernel with the isapnp as a module.
With the above configuration in /etc/modules.conf sound seems to come up
when I need it and I've got stereo sound in Linux with my TV and gradio
tuner for the first time ever also.
Hope you can find something of value in the above mess.
G'luck.
Charlie L.
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From: "Rod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Redhat 7.1 install error
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 16:32:53 +1200
try install from a hd
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Maarten"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just wanted to install Linux Redhat 7.1 on my computer, so I saved up
> some money and bought a 'new' 3.2 gb hdd (WD). I downloaded both the ISO
> files and burned them on a CD. So far so good.
>
> CD 1 is bootable and took me to the installation menu. Keyboard and
> Mouse detected (cordless). I partitioned linux using the disk druid and
> made a 128 mb swap file and the rest (I checked use remaining space)
> linux native (29xx mb). I did a custom installation and checked most of
> the packages, in total 1.1 gb. My diamond viper v550 card was detected
> and also my monitor works fine. So far so good. I finally came to the
> part where the files were copied and installed. First he started to
> format both partitions (native and swap) and then things went wrong:
> half way the status bar i got the error : "Error writing install image
> to disk. You probably run out of disk space". This is not possible,
> cause i have 3 gb of empty space and only 1 gb of packages. I figured it
> must be a bad block on my "new" hdd, so i took another hdd (which was
> tested and ok.) but the same problem at the same time. Then i figured
> something was wrong with the ISO file and downloaded both files from a
> different location. But after installing again, same problem, same time.
> My configuration:
>
> Intel p3-450 (slot 1)
> 256 mb memory
> prim master : maxtor 8.4 gb (win2k pro is here) prim slave : WD 3.2 gb
> (linux should be here) sec. master : philips 40 x cdrom
> sec. slave : philips CDrw
> Diamond viper v550
> Logitech cordless desktop
> Eicon diva ISDN
>
> I really want to install RH 7.1, so I hope someone can help me fix this
> problem.
>
> Hope to hear from you,
>
> Grtnx, Maarten
>
>
>
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From: "Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Poor screen quality
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:54:20 -0400
In article <JYmG6.116863$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Unknown"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is really bugging me and I don't know what to do...
>
> I'm running Suse7.1/KDE2 on a Pentium III w/ 256MB RAM and an ATI Rage
> card with 32MB VRAM and XFree4.x My monitor is a Iiyama Vision Master
> 450 (19").
>
> My image quality is crappy - window borders often are real wiggly or
> crooked. They change depending on where on the screen I place them - so
> if I move a window to a certain place it looks fine. If I move it
> somewhere else it's left or right border goes all crooked or wavy again.
> The 'good' places are not the same all the time. I had the problem
> before I upgraded to Suse7.1 but the move to XFree 4 seems to have made
> it worse.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> Peter
too high of scan frequencies for the monitor to display everything
consistently?
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From: "Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is the best Java chat server for Linux?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 04:56:58 GMT
Hi all,
I want to build a java chat server on Redhat 7.
Does someone can introduit me one?
Thanks in advance for any advise.
DH
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From: "Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is the best software to do the creation of free email (for Linux)?
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:03:46 GMT
Hi all,
I'm looking the tools to create email account for internet user sign on to
my webpage (as hotmail or yahoo mail).
Does someone know a good on working with Redhat 7?
Thanks in advance for any advise.
DH
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From: "Huy Vu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for free games server sw working on Linux
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:07:04 GMT
Hi all,
I want to experiment the games server software on Linux (Redhat). Does
someone can introduit me one?
I'd like chess or casino games.
Thanks in advance for any help.
DH.
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From: Omar Lakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 01:27:12 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi folks, I have a Presario 1700 with Linux RH 7.0 on it and everything
is working just fine besides the network (and modem) connection.
After some reseach I found out that my ethernet nic is a CONEXANT. I
browsed through many sites looking for some suitable kernel module as a
driver. No clue...
I have tried many drivers just randomly without success.
Finally (and sadly) I came to the decision that I need to invest in a
PCMCIA, plug it in and get hooked up to the net. Now I find myself
drowned in an ocean of information and don't know what to buy exactly. I
would like to have a combo Ethernet/Modem with the less painul
installation, not exactlya a plug and play thing, but something that has
been tested and is guaranteed by experience to work.
Any suggestions?
Please CC me the reply as I rarely have the chance to browse through the
newsgroups.
Greetings, Omar Lakkis
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What is the best software to do the creation of free email (for
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:39:38 GMT
Huy Vu wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking the tools to create email account for internet user sign on to
> my webpage (as hotmail or yahoo mail).
>
> Does someone know a good on working with Redhat 7?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advise.
Check out Qmail http://www.qmail.com
It can be setup similarly using one of the programs on the qmail
website.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.177% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for free games server sw working on Linux
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 05:41:30 GMT
Huy Vu wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I want to experiment the games server software on Linux (Redhat). Does
> someone can introduit me one?
> I'd like chess or casino games.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help.
>
> DH.
If it is installed just enter "xboard" in an xterminal to start a chess
game.
--
Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree.
Registered with the Linux Counter. http://counter.li.org
ID # 123538
Completed more W/U's than 99.177% of seti users. +/- 0.01%
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From: Jimbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: minimum install to compile packages (Red Hat)
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 08:17:27 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I've installed a RedHat 6.2 with the minimum amount of packages (I was
in despteratie need of HD-space).
Now...during the install I overlooked that I need to compile (ie
./configure and make) some packages.
Can anybody tell which rpm's I need to install at least to get
compiling running?
Regards,
Koen
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From: jinp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lilo version of RedHat 7.1
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 02:13:01 -0400
Hello,
Is version of lilo in RedHat 7.1 high enough to solve the boot area
higher than 1024 cylinder problem? and I remember in some news before
said something about "lba" in the lilo.conf file, Can someone give out
more info about that?
Thanks
jinp
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From: "Eric en Jolanda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH7.1 Instal. can't write boot loader
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 08:43:26 +0200
> Thanks for answering, however that does not help.
Hmmm. Perhaps RedHat changed this option?
They used to have it. It don't have a 7.1 CD at hand right now, so I can't
try
what it is.
You can get a rescue disc from the web (toms boot/root disk eg.) and start a
resue system from there. Boot from it, and supply a "linux root=/dev/hda3"
option to the lilo prompt.
> I hope this is in plain text only.
It is.
> > Just put a CD in and enter : "linux rescue root=/dev/hda3"
You left out the quotes? There's a screen full of options (expert,
workstation, etc.) Is there no obvious rescue option?
Eric
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From: "DC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What do i Actually need to install???
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 07:32:58 +0100
Hi All
I want to create a web server intranet linux box in our co. But even on a
minimal install all the disrtos dump tons of stuff, that i may need later,
but at the moment get in the way.
I wish to end up with this config i think....
Latest kernal
KDE 2+
Apache
Php 4
Mysql
Perl
Gzip and Tar for compresed files
A basic text editor for html and scripts
So what do i ACTUALLY need to download and install to create this job
specific box.
I am quite new to linux
Thanks for any help in advance
Dave C
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donald Burr of Borg)
Subject: HELP: cannot install Mandrake 8.0 on Sony Vaio PCG-FX120 laptop
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:22:30 -0700
Help - I'm having trouble getting Linux Mandrake 8.0 up and running on this
machine.
Sony Vaio PCG-FX120 Laptop
Intel 815em chipset
Pentium III 700Mhz (SpeedStep)
192 MB PC100 SODIMM
20 GB Fujitsu hard drive
6x Toshiba DVD-ROM
13.3" SVGA (1024x768) LCD, Intel 815em integrated AGP 2D/3D accelerator
Ricoh RL5C476 CardBus/PCMCIA controller
Intel 815em Integrated 10/100 Ethernet (82557 compatible)
Alps GlidePoint touchpad
I am trying to install Linux Mandrake 8.0 (Traktopel). This is the final
release.
Using the standard (graphical) installer, everything goes well until the
"Detecting PCMCIA" phase, at which point the system totally freezes up --
no response to keyboard, mouse, etc.
I booted the installer in text (expert) mode, to see more of what is going
on, and I discovered that the PCMCIA probe was in fact causing a kernel
panic.
I believe I can get the installation going if I disable PCMCIA detection
during the installer. Unfortunately I can't find a way to do this! Even
the "expert" mode won't let me turn off PCMCIA auto-detection! (It lets me
tune and/or disable just about everything else tho!)
Now, I *was* able to get RedHat 7.1 up and running on this machine (even
the PCMCIA detection worked perfectly!), but I would much rather run Mandrake,
because quite frankly, I like it better than DeadHat.
Can anyone offer some help? Words of wisdom? A prayer or two? Money?
(hey, I had to try!) You will not only earn my undying gratitude, but you'll
also earn my SO's undying gratitude for putting my mind at ease!!! (this
has been driving me NUTS this week)
Please reply. Thanks!
--
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WWW: http://www.borg-cube.com/ ICQ #16997506 | http://www.freebsd.org/
P.O. Box 91212, Santa Barbara, CA 93190-1212 \-----------------------------
Phone: (805)957-9666 Present Day... Present Time!
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP and Road Runner blues
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,alt.linux.redhat,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:51:43 GMT
Here's some food for thought:
Use a static ipaddress & free it from the dhcp server.
http://www.monkey.org/~dugsong/dhcpfree.c
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "grooveman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello.
> I am running Redhat 6.2, and I am tying to use it with Mediaone (Now
> ATT) Road Runner service in the Detroit Metro area. My problem is that
> my machine would not lease from the DHCP server. Of course, the
> customer support was useless in this issue: "we don't support
> Line-ucks".
> I have researched this thoroughly, and have seen many people with the
> same or similar issue, but every single one failed to document clearly
> how they overcame this problem (if they did at all). I dropped pump all
> together. I have the version that comes stock with RH 6.2. (0.7.8-1).
> I downloaded the latest version of DHCPCD version 1.3.20-p10. I have
> gotten that to work -- but it only works about 10 percent of the time.
> 90% of the time (or so) it fails. The README for this utility is not
> helpful at all. The howto I found was even worse. When modifying the
> script of ifup an ifdown, it not only had the script wrong, but it said
> to remove an "if" statement without touching the fi. I am no scripting
> whiz, but I know you can't break conditionals like that without trashing
> the script.
> I modified ifup and ifdown, basically by replacing the pump commands
> with their dhcpcd equivalents. Then, I wrote a script that loops the
> ifup until it gets a lease. I put the script at the end of rc.local,
> rather than having eth0 come up at init level 3. The net result is that
> it runs through everything fine, and at the very last stage, tries to
> bring up eth0 until it is successful. It take about 10 times plus or
> minus.
> (SIGH........)
> What can I do to get this to work?
> I really appreciate any help I can get. Thanks!
> Chris
>
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