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After installing Linux (SLS, from an ftp site here in BNR ottawa, version .99 w/
ld 1.3), I have 3 problems, my ps doesn't work, /etc/rc.net is returning error
codes at boot time, and my /etc/host.conf is corrupted.
Question on ps:
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I found my ps command was not working. To fix this i added the line
/proc /proc proc defaults
to /etc/fstab. This seemed to have no effect until I added this line to my /etc/rc
mount /proc
ps then seemed to work ok. my question is: is this the correct solution? I'm
sure this is a kludge and there is actually something still wrong!
Question on /etc/rc.net
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Since my machine is standalone can I just 'chmod' it so that this script isn't
executed at boot time? If not how can I get rid of the following error messages:
/etc/rc.net:softland(192.0.2.128)SIOFADDR: invalid arguement
SIOCSIFFLAGS: invaild arguement
SIOCSIFFLAGS: invalid arguement
SIOCSIFFLAGS: invalid arguement
SIOCSIFFLAGS: invalid arguement
SIOCSIFNETMASK: invalid arguement
SIOADDRT: network is unavailable
i have the network administrators guide printing now, so if by reading it i will
get all i need to know then ignore this question!
Question on /etc/host.conf
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my /etc/host.conf is:
order hosts bind
multi
The problem is that both the boot process (I assume it to be 'init') and my X server say:
/etc/host.conf: multi command incorrectly formatted
At boot time I just ignore it, but when i try to start up X it gets really anoying because X dies, (actually it doesn't die until the first client tries
to execute) when the first client executes it dies complaining that it couldn't open the display.
can't open display :0
I assume at this point that it has something to do with the host.conf file. I
don't know if thats a valid assumption, since i don't know anything about the
host.conf file and even less about the 'multi' command. Before asking this
question I tried looking in the comp.unix faq, various linux faqs, the linux man
pages as well as the HPUX man pages here at work. The end result being that I
now know that the 'hosts' file maps symbolic names to numeric internet adresses.
I still know very little about the 'host.conf' file. My biggest concern is that
I just don't know where to look to figure this one out!
If you can think of other reasons for X not having access the the display I would appreciate those too, although being an X question I don't expect it to
be answered here.
Follow Up
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prefer the first address as I am here most of the time and my response will be
MUCH quicker.
thanks for any help!!
mike.
Michael J. Garvin
763-8309
Sysdoc dept. 8I32
Bell Northern Research
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