Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.10.09 at 06:34, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Most would be in file /var/log/messages, but also in /var/log/localmessages
Mandrake does not have a /var/log/localmessages file but on venturing
Mandrake? I thought this was a SuSE list :-p
a bit of cross pollination as it might be said and most definitely enough to convince me to swop to SuSe when 9.0 comes out.
into the /var/log directory I saw a file called syslog. Opened it up and had a look for ip-down and lo and behold..... I was greeted with messages just prior to that of how my connection had been refused at various IP's, eventhough I had been given a dynamic IP address myself.
See? Missing info. Nothing like having a crystal ball beside the monitor :-)
I knew I was missing something, asides from not having Suse :)
remove the comment mark (#) before the word 'debug'.
Oh it would be lovely to be running SuSe :| There seems to be so much more information available in the config files. Wishing 9.0 would hurry up, be released and get on its way to the RSA. Mandrake just lists the values ie
lock usepeerdns debug #after I added it etc
Agh. A friend of mine was trying to convince himself to try Linux, and he complained that installation was difficult. I told him to buy a distro, like SuSE: good manuals, easy installation, a handy cheap "guru" -- but he bought Mandrake, just to go against me ;-) Then, of course, he asked me for help, and... he finished buying SuSE some months later :-)
Your friend has had it easy :) . I started on RH 6 then moved to Mandrake 8 and now 9 only to discover that SuSe was probably the one I should have started off and stuck with right from the beginning. It would seem from this list that SuSe has far greater GUI functionality than Mandrake or even RH has, and that is what is swaying my opinion, especially since I was a M$ netadmin b4.
Who knew it would actually be my ISP's 'fault' that I couldn't connect? :) Ah...
I was dialling thru a congested national number(that was used by all ISP's) and didn't seem to be getting authenticated. since my ISP got their own number, np. Thanks for the help Carlos, and one or two others. It was certainly appreciated since I wasn't even running the 'correct' distribution :) -- ======================================================================== Hylton Conacher - Licenced Windows user Registered Linux user # 229959 Using Linux Mandrake 9.0 with KDE 3 on a 2.4.19-16mdk kernel ========================================================================