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
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 :-)
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 :-)
Who knew it would actually be my ISP's 'fault' that I couldn't connect? :)
Ah... -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson