the source tarball is kept in /usr/portage/distfiles (in its tarred
release format). You can study the raw (as in unpatched ) source there
by untarring the source tarball.
as others have said, if you want to study the source with whatever
patches the ebuild has applied, use FEATURES=keepwork
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 13:11 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
I was under the impression that the iso filesystem is
read only. Of course, you could mount the iso on a
loop and create a new iso from those files.
no you cannot, as it is read only, so once you have mounted it it is
still readonly.
You
jerry wrote:
I am a newbie, and so simply generate the kernel with the command genkernel
all without any modification of the .config file.
Maybe I should compile the driver into the kernel, but which option
corresponds to my eth0 device? I am confused.
Thank you.
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jerry wrote:
I am a newbie, and so simply generate the kernel with the command
genkernel
all without any
Finally I installed gentoo on my laptop IBM ThinkPad X240, which has
not internal CD-ROM drive and has external FD drive (not usb one).
I used 2 floppy distros hal91 and toms.
Why I used 2 distros:
1) hal91 supports bzunzip2 for bunzipping stage and portage files
2) hal91 supports '-p' option
I want to enable/install driver in the kernel for the cardbus bridge
for Texas Instruments PCI1211 for my laptop.
In the kernel I don't see its driver.
I use gentoo 2005.0.
askar
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Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means
I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up
something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or
whatever) and some program that will work with that to keep the
In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this
seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I
rebooted the system.
3 lamps of the PCMCIA card was on: 1) Power 2) Act and 2) Link
The pcmcia card I use is Planex ENW-3503-TX. This is the 10Base-T card.
The
jerry wrote:
...SKIP...
Despite I ran modprobe e100, the ifconfig eth0 reports no such
device found.
Then what should I do to setup my eth0 device?
BTW, following is the output of dmesg|grep e100:
Intel(r) PRO/100 Network Driver 3.3.6-k2-NAPI
Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel corporation
Thank
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 21:33 -0700, Jonathan Nichols wrote:
The thread about discrimination is a good one.. it made me think about
local user groups, as people have mentioned install-fests.
I did Google around for a bit but didn't really find a whole lot. I'm
right here in the Silicon
On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:36, askar ... wrote:
In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this
seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I
rebooted the system.
3 lamps of the PCMCIA card was on: 1) Power 2) Act and 2) Link
The pcmcia card I use is
delete the contents of /etc/adjtime
this file contains data that the kernel uses to keep track of time, it
compensates for a slow/fast system clock tick.
If this file gets stuffed up then the kernel over compensates for what
it perceives to be a way out clock, and all hell breaks loose.
So
On 20:07 Fri 20 May , Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso.
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote:
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw
support to the iso9660 driver ;-)
--- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 16:34 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw
support to the iso9660 driver ;-)
iso9660 is a read only file system, so that seems unlikely!
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Hi all,
I need some support to get bootsplash on my gentoo start-up!
I tried following gentoo-HOWTO, but I'm probably missing something
important: that is I did patch and recompile my kernel, but when I
looked for
Bootsplash configuration ---
[*] Bootup splash screen
I didn't manage to
Le 17 mai à 15:01:49 Jean Magnan de Bornier [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit
notamment:
Hello all,
I am setting up a way to have my laptop automatically get a correct ip
address.
When I am at my office, I have a fixed ip; at home (on a
private network) I use dhcp.
I know I can use quickswitch
Rob wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
A static dynamic DNS G. Thanks. I'll look at that.
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Michael Semcheski wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which
means
I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org
Nick Rout wrote:
delete the contents of /etc/adjtime
this file contains data that the kernel uses to keep track of time, it
compensates for a slow/fast system clock tick.
If this file gets stuffed up then the kernel over compensates for what
it perceives to be a way out clock, and all hell
Hi,
I was upgrading my kernel to 2.6.11-r9 today on a amd64, and I noticed
that the Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet driver is now marked
deprecated? Any1 know why? Hardware too old? Replacement has been
written? Or licensing/policy issue?
TIA.
-- Joe
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Sometimes
On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote:
--- Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to
re-emerge some kernelmodules
(madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do this
emerge removes the module
from the /lib/modules/...
On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:48, Dan Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote:
--- Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to
re-emerge some kernelmodules
(madwifi-driver among other). BUT when I do this
On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 21:48, Dan Johansson wrote:
On Thursday 19 May 2005 22.27, Zachary Medico wrote:
--- Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
After I've done an upgrade of my kernel I have to
re-emerge some
Alle 14:43, sabato 21 maggio 2005, Qian Qiao ha scritto:
Hi,
I was upgrading my kernel to 2.6.11-r9 today on a amd64, and I
noticed that the Marvell Yukon gigabit ethernet driver is now marked
deprecated? Any1 know why? Hardware too old? Replacement has been
written? Or licensing/policy
On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote:
What portage version are using?
My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 on x86.
There's been a hack in portage all the way through 2.0.51 and I'm pretty sure
2.0.50 as well that
Is anyone here running Gentoo with -fvisibility=hidden in his CFLAGS ?
Never experienced any problem?
Thanks,
Julien
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hello list,
first i must say that i'm new to gentoo, to kernel 2.6 AND to udev, so be
warned...
i started installation from stage1 a few days ago and by now i have just
about everything installed and working. but i've hit just a couple of bent
nails, here's one:
- device: agfa snapscan e20 usb
Thanks. I'll look at it.
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Felix Tiede wrote:
Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
I want to use dhcp on my home network to assign IP addresses which means
I'll need a dynamic DNS. I know I can go to dyndns.org and set up
something with them but can I setup my own name server (BIND or
On 14:11 Sat 21 May , Julien Cayzac wrote:
Is anyone here running Gentoo with -fvisibility=hidden in his CFLAGS ?
Never experienced any problem?
Thanks,
Julien
iirc it does't make sense to have it in your CLFAGS, since it only
affects c++ stuff (so it'd go in CXXFLAGS)
It does cause
On 5/21/05, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It does cause problems with kde stuff, and with wxGTK stuff though
Thanks for the answer, I won't put it in my make.conf yet...
Have some bugreports been raised for the problems you described yet?
If not, it might be worth it to add them to
On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote:
Read the Fine Manual
Which Fine Manual are we talking about here for kde and where might it be
found?
set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf
then
rc-update add xdm boot
/etc/init.d/xdm start
On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 19:09 -0700, cfk
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 15:05 +, Julien Cayzac wrote:
On 5/21/05, David Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It does cause problems with kde stuff, and with wxGTK stuff though
Thanks for the answer, I won't put it in my make.conf yet...
Have some bugreports been raised for the problems you
I saw this on one machine, and thought maybe the machine was flakey.
Now I see it on another machine. The 2005.0 install CD comes up with a
gazillion devices in /dev but there is no floppy drive!!! Is this a
reportable bug? Is there a way to force it make the appropriate device?
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On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:36, askar ... wrote: In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this
seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I rebooted the system. 3 lamps of the PCMCIA card was on: 1)
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:43, Julien Cayzac wrote:
On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You miss the point. Adding that flag to CFLAGS (or CXXFLAGS) is faulty in
and of itself. It is not a general optimization flag. It is something
that each package's codebase needs to be
On Saturday 21 May 2005 15.46, Jason Stubbs wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 22:08, Dan Johansson wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 14.55, Jason Stubbs wrote:
What portage version are using?
My portage version is sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19 on x86.
There's been a hack in portage all the way
On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:54, askar ... wrote:
On 5/21/05, Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 17:36, askar ... wrote:
In the kernel I enables option for 'CardBus yenta-compatible' - this
seems the one I was looking for. After recompilation the kernel I
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Rob wrote:
Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that
solved the problem CLOCK=local. This does not appear in the Gentoo
manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted
a doc bug report, so that no one else gets bit with
Searching for Planex ENW-3503-TX linux gave a list of card types and
what chipsets they contain on the first result.
Thanks. But when I searched with the above keyword, the search results in 2
pages, and all sites in japanese...
I noticed that. I figured you'd probably be able to
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Hi all,
after updating kde to 3.4 I noticed that kopete doesn't raise windows
anymore :(
It only raise windows if I have a kopete configuration window open.
Are you also seeing that?
Is there any workaround I could use?
I remember that Gaim
Bill Roberts wrote:
On 20:07 Fri 20 May , Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
Wouldn't that be nice! Oh, well till then we copy, modify, make new iso.
On Fri, 20 May 2005, Zac Medico wrote:
Nice bluff though. I was hoping sombody added rw
support to the iso9660 driver ;-)
--- Brett I. Holcomb
Hi,
On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:31:28 +0600
askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even now, pcmcia card works, there is no info in lspci.
Then it's not cardbus but 16 bit. cardctl can tell, i think. Only
cardbus is usually transparently mapped onto the PCI bus.
HWH
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Thanks for info!
askar
On 5/22/05, Hans-Werner Hilse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Sat, 21 May 2005 22:31:28 +0600
askar ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Even now, pcmcia card works, there is no info in lspci.
Then it's not cardbus but 16 bit. cardctl can tell, i think. Only
cardbus
On 5/21/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote: Read the Fine ManualWhich Fine Manual are we talking about here for kde and where might it befound? set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in /etc/rc.conf
then rc-update add xdm boot /etc/init.d/xdm start On Fri,
--- Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and
copy the files. I
have added my file and created a new iso.
My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have
followed the link
posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a
bootable cd does not
Zac Medico wrote:
--- Sad Jack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have been able to mount the iso on /mnt/loop and
copy the files. I
have added my file and created a new iso.
My difficulty now is to make it bootable. I have
followed the link
posted by Bill but the end bit about creating a
bootable cd
On Saturday 21 May 2005 10:27, ZeeGeek wrote:
On 5/21/05, cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 20 May 2005 22:55, Nick Rout wrote:
Read the Fine Manual
Which Fine Manual are we talking about here for kde and where might it
be
found?
set the DISPLAYMANAGER=kdm line in
Hi,
Is mac-fdisk a mount command or is it a way to used fdisk under
Yellow Dog on a Mac?
Generally speaking you mount *partitions* so it would be
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/firewire-1
Under normal linux you could do
fdisk -l /dev/sdb
and get a listing of partitions on sdb. You might try to
A. Khattri wrote:
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Rob wrote:
Thanks for response. Acutually it was adding a line to rc.conf that
solved the problem CLOCK=local. This does not appear in the Gentoo
manual, but is only needed for BIOS's which use local time. I submitted
a doc bug report, so that no one
Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't
work as a user. I keeps sending the error message that the setup is
aborted. Who knows what this means, but its irritating, having to go
back in to user directory and chowning and chgrpin files.
Rob.
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Thanks to all. I was unable to reply before.
Tom Wesley wrote:
I would create an overlay directory and copy to ebuilds there, that way
you can version bump your overlay as the main portage tree gets updated.
I was replying that it is a good idea but it has a disadvantage when I
realized I
After you installed OO as root did you then log in as user and run the
setup in the OO programs directory (/opt/openoffice../programs)?
On Sat, 21 May 2005, rob3 wrote:
Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice command. But it doesn't
work as a user. I keeps sending the error message
--- rob3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Root or su can start OO easily with ooffice
command. But it doesn't
work as a user. I keeps sending the error message
that the setup is
aborted. Who knows what this means, but its
irritating, having to go
back in to user directory and chowning and
On Friday 13 May 2005 11:06 am, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How
long it yours?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world
67 /var/lib/portage/world
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On Tuesday 26 April 2005 08:51 am, Dirk Heinrichs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
my logical volumes (even / and swap)
I prefer swap not an a lvm partition. But, that's because I use loop-aes
underneath lvm (my PVs are loopback devices), but want to use random keys
for swap and not encrypt twice.
On 5/21/05, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Friday 13 May 2005 11:06 am, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My world file is 235 lines long. How screwed up is that really? How
long it yours?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # wc -l /var/lib/portage/world
67 /var/lib/portage/world
Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18
months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in
portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to
use? Is it automatic upon reboot?
The machine has been updated to a new gentoo-sources.
Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove devfs -
recompile and reboot.
Job done, it should say using udev at bootup.
Tim
Mark Knecht wrote:
Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18
months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know how it works. Thanks for any advice.
q-parser
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Mark Knecht wrote:
Are there any instructions about on how to take an older machine (18
months) and switch it to udev from devfs? I see that udev is in
portage so I can emerge that, but how do I tell the machine which to
use? Is it automatic upon reboot?
The machine has been updated to a
Tim,
Yes, basically correct. I didn't remove devfs, but I did change the
opton to tell it not to mount at boot time. That was enough to get rid
of some messages that said
error calling unlink in GLOBAL
I still had one more problem. gdm wouldn't start since my xorg.conf
file said /dev/mouse
Install udev as in portage. Then edit the kernel to remove
devfs - recompile and reboot.
Additionally, the guide to writing udev rules by Daniel Drake
(thanks a lot) has been updated:
Writing udev rules
Best regards
ce
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On Saturday 21 May 2005 23:57, Felix Tiede wrote:
Tell it to use udev by adding gentoo=nodevfs to your kernel-commandline.
Other way: Remove support for /dev filesystem (DEVFS) from your kernel.
Or, just install udev.
The init scripts will work the rest out.
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try iptraf or ntop. The last one offers some detailed information via
web-based interface.
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 00:56 +0200, Joseph Drake wrote:
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know
try iptraf or ntop. The last one offers some detailed information via
web-based interface.
On Sun, 2005-05-22 at 00:56 +0200, Joseph Drake wrote:
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know
On 05/21/05 16:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Monday 02 May 2005 04:33 pm, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 02 May 2005 21:00:30 +, Alex A. Smith MCP wrote:
Time straped as it is, I'll type in what ever my Default Email prog
wants me to, asking people to turn it off
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote:
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know how it works. Thanks for any advice.
I have a number of text mode only servers running iptraf
Hi,
My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while
running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on
the desktop won't show, when you right click on the
desktop no options are presented, and the background
image doesn't show.
Any ideas as to why?
Bill
El 22/05/05 00:33:09, Bill Six escribió:
Hi,
My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while
running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on
the desktop won't show, when you right click on the
desktop no options are presented, and the background
image doesn't show.
Any ideas as to
Jerry McBride wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote:
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know how it works. Thanks for any advice.
I have a
Sorry,
Writing udev rules
here it is:
http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html
Best regards
ce
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On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 00:25 -0700, darren kirby wrote:
quoth the Colin:
Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on
the LiveCD? Also, how do you make the output of ls colored?
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You're looking for bootsplash. Check this out:
Because no one mentioned it. There is also a Gentoo udev Guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
max
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I'm trying to get my soundcard working. It isn't detected by lspci
under my kernel, but the LiveCD's lspci finds it and detects it on the
line :00:11.0 Multimedia audio controller: Aureal Semiconductor
Vortex 1 (rev 02). The LiveCD coldplugs it as driver=unknown, but that
shouldn't stop
Jerry McBride wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote:
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know how it works. Thanks for any advice.
I have a
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 17:33 -0700, Bill Six wrote:
Hi,
My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while
running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on
the desktop won't show, when you right click on the
desktop no options are presented, and the background
image doesn't show.
Thanks to all for your answers.
Everything except Video4Linux seems to be working. I'm sure v4l is
some oversight on my part.
cheers,
Mark
On 5/21/05, Max [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because no one mentioned it. There is also a Gentoo udev Guide:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/udev-guide.xml
I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE, than you very much. Now is
the time to understand how menus are added to the task bar.
I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just emerged are added to the
menu. I know how to create a task bar button from a menu item, but I dont
know how
On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:13 pm, q-parser wrote:
Jerry McBride wrote:
On Saturday 21 May 2005 06:56 pm, Joseph Drake wrote:
Does anyone know any good traffic monitor? I want to how much data is
transported when my machine's up. I emerged traffic-vis, but I don't
know how it works. Thanks for
On Sun, 22 May 2005, q-parser wrote:
So I installed ntop, ran it and now what?
If you read the docs, you'll probably see you need to connect to the
machine from a web browser on a specific port.
BTW, if you need to graph bandwidth, I highly recommend cacti.
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Right-click the K-menu button, select Menu Editor.
Then you can add an item manually.
Cheers,
Martin S
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Walter Dnes wrote:
I saw this on one machine, and thought maybe the machine was flakey.
Now I see it on another machine. The 2005.0 install CD comes up with a
gazillion devices in /dev but there is no floppy drive!!! Is this a
reportable bug? Is there a way to force
On Sat, 21 May 2005, Stroller wrote:
On May 18, 2005, at 3:11 am, Mark Knecht wrote:
As per some conversations last week I've been doing a lot of clean
up of my world files. I've moved from a high of 235 files down to my
low today of onl 112.
On a related note, today I took a
--- cfk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have my Gentoo system booting and running KDE,
than you very much. Now is
the time to understand how menus are added to the
task bar.
I wonder how new programs, such as kdevelop, just
emerged are added to the
menu. I know how to create a task bar
gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 17:33 -0700, Bill Six wrote:
Hi,
My computer was accidently shut down uncleanly while
running Gnome. When it was restarted, the icons on
the desktop won't show, when you right click on the
desktop no options are presented, and the
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:35:45PM +0200, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote
I want to execute ln -sf /etc/resolv.conf.fac /etc/resolv.conf *before*
/etc/init.d/net.eth0, so that if I am at the fac (my office) location I
have these dns set up, but if I am home with dhcp the resolv.conf
file will be
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