> The line you quoted Volker was for SuSE 9.0, but thanks anyway. Ugh, not sure where I got it from (SusE support pages I think) but I never used 9.0.
> The runlevel editor shows that SuSEfirewall2 isn't starting up. In level 3 and 5? Good. Actually, much simpler would be to temp rename /sbin/SuSEfirewall2 and tomake that a link to /bin/true. > I assume that with IPv6 being disabled now, that the FW_IPv6 stuff is > no longer relevant. I'd say ipv6 is disabled if the modules aren't loaded... lsmod. > > nscd is the name service caching daemon. It gets installed and started > > by default. > > I guess it doesn't get installed on a minimal install. Maybe I should > install it? You'd probably want it, esp on a server, it hooks somewhere into the name resolution functions and establishes a cache for looked up results. However for zeroing in on your problem now you don't want it. Sorry no more ideas from my side. Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
