Re: [RULE] Suggestions for future slinkys

[Rodolfo J. Paiz]

At 15:50 3/31/2004, you wrote:
> 1) when (tiny)X starts, it signals a hostname lookup failure

Is the hostname properly set in /etc/hosts and in /etc/sysconfig/network?

> 3) the route command gives one route to/through 169.254.0.0 . Why?

It's called "zeroconf" and is the set of IP addresses onto which DHCP 
clients are supposed to fall back if they cannot get a valid lease. This is 
not harmful (and can actually be useful), but can be configured not to 
happen in any case. Did you ask out of curiosity, or would you really like 
to eliminate it?

> 4) Can we add the option to install RH up2date, or in any case some
>    graphic frontend to update the whole system(resolving dependencies
>    automatically)

I suggest yum, since it's supported by the newer up2date in Fedora and also 
by many other sites. It should not be hard to find "yummified" repositories 
for RHL-7.x through RHL-9... I know Fedora Legacy has one, and surely some 
of the RH mirrors also support yum.

These are the only things to which I can make any useful comment.

Cheers,


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