Re: YDL/xfs (X) question


Subject: Re: YDL/xfs (X) question
From: A S Hodel (a.s.hodel@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Date: Mon Feb 12 2001 - 01:50:07 MST


>>I am using YDL 1.2, kernel 2.2.17-something or other (latest release from
>>yup). I seem to have mangled my configuration so that I cannot use
>>X unless I am connected to an ethernet cable. Symptoms: when
>>booting as a stand-alone machine, three daemon processes take a
>>long time to start:
>>
>>- sendmail (which I need to turn off anyway),
>>- xfs,and
>>- linuxconf (which I think I may want to turn off too).
>
>sendmail, anyway, is trying to do a name lookup and takes a long
>time to time-out (with no ethernet you are not connected, and you
>can't get to a DNS server...)
>
>You need a [filled out] /etc/hosts file.
>
>>When logged in, I type in startx and simply wait. Nothing happens until I
>>press CTRL-C, and then I am returned to the Linux prompt. I don't
>>know enough about these processes to give a more intelligent
>>problem description, so if further detail is needed, feel free to
>>tell me what details are required.
>>
>>Any help here would be much appreciated.
>
>
>I didn't know that X or xfs needed to do a lookup as well. But try
>the hosts file, it will probably improve things greatly.
>
>
>Stefan Jeglinski

Thanks. I was able to use the "setup" program to shut off the
undesired processes (had to manually delete them from the /etc/rc.d
subdirectories after running setup). Eventually I had to recover an
old backup of my /etc/ directory, and things seem to be o.k. now.



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