Pep, I take it that SuSE changes the IP address back, after you finished running SuSEConfig!! If you take a look at the main file "SuSEConfig", use: whereis SuSEConfig you can then edit this file using an editor, since the file is simply a bourne script. Do a search for "ifconfig". Hopefully you should then be able to work out whats going on, and how 127.0.0.2 is being changed. You can then uncomment out the bits that are causing the problem. Failing that, you might have to add an entry to "boot.local" that adds a string to "/etc/hosts" to manually add the hostname. HTH, Thomas Adam
Hi, An easier way to stop SuSEConfig altering /etc/hosts is to edit /etc/rc.config locate the line CHECK_ETC_HOSTS="yes" and change it to CHECK_ETC_HOSTS="no" and SuSEConfig will not alter the /etc/hosts file again. Regards, Graham Smith ------------------------------------- On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 19:34, THOMAS ADAM wrote:
Pep,
I take it that SuSE changes the IP address back, after you finished running SuSEConfig!!
If you take a look at the main file "SuSEConfig", use:
whereis SuSEConfig
you can then edit this file using an editor, since the file is simply a bourne script.
Do a search for "ifconfig". Hopefully you should then be able to work out whats going on, and how 127.0.0.2 is being changed.
You can then uncomment out the bits that are causing the problem.
Failing that, you might have to add an entry to "boot.local" that adds a string to "/etc/hosts" to manually add the hostname.
HTH,
Thomas Adam
First i would like to THANK THE PARTICIPANTS of this list. The postings of questions, answeres and advice over the past month, particularly in regards to kernel configuration and compiling have helped solve quite a few problems i was experiencing with my system especially a peskie seg-fault error upon shutdown (probably due to conflicting drivers in the precompiled kernel). Second of all i would like some advice in networking two computers i have at home. I would like to get them working first before i attempt to network my 6 computers at work. The computers at home are COMPAQs: 1) 133mhz pentium 1.75 gig hard drive 72 megs ram sound card fax modem 1 parallell port 1 9 pin seriel port 10/100 ethernet card (2 weeks old) 1 3.5 floppy drive 1 non bootable cd rom dual boot suse 7.2 pro / win 95 2) 100 mhz pentium 1 gig hard drive 24 megs ram 1 parallell port 1 9 pin seriel port 10 ethernet card (original card) 1 3.5 floppy drive win for workgroup 3.11 partitioned about 600 megs space for linux only suse 6.4 boot floppy works on this computer. if anyone has any suggestions on how i can begin i would greatly appreciate it especially what services i should be running to get them to talk to each other. thanks in advance harry
On December 24, 2001 08:55 am, harry amarantidis wrote:
Second of all i would like some advice in networking two computers i have at home. I would like to get them working first before i attempt to network my 6 computers at work.
10/100 ethernet card (2 weeks old)
10 ethernet card (original card)
Get a cross over cable. Connect the two machines together. Since you eventually want to connect six machines you might want to skip this step and get a switch and a couple of normal cables. You only need what services you want. So without an idea on what you want these machines to do it's hard to comment. Edit /etc/hosts on each machine to match the assigned IP#'s. To begin with that sounds like all you need. There should be a networking howto on the net some place. Nick
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