On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 09:42:21AM -0400, Douglas Kojetin wrote: > howdy all- > > i have an extremely old (i guess that is relative; pentium 120 packard > bell -- RIP!) computer running RH 8.0 that we setup to use as a sFTP > server. if you were following my stories from yesterday, our space is > under construction -- so they've been shut down for awhile (this > computer is different than the other one i'm having problems with). > > anywho, the problem i'm having with this one is that it seems the > network services in and out (ping, ftp, ssh/scp/sftp) shut down after > about 2-5 minutes of booting. anyone have any ideas of what is going on? > > on an unrelated note, this computer is unable to boot to CDROM, and i > tried to use a boot disk to upgrade to RH 9, but it bypasses the boot > disk (after thinking about reading it) and goes straight to grub -- any > ideas on that?
Any chance you isntalled a firewall package that might be starting up and blocking these servies? Shorewall takes almost 5 minutes to startup on my P-90 :) David
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