Subject: java in netscape? among other things...
From: steve steffler (generica@antisocial.com)
Date: Tue Sep 28 1999 - 20:23:40 MDT
I recently installed YDL 1.1 from the ISO on the ftp site on a Powermac
6500/250, and almost everything is working fine. Things that aren't,
which I'm curious about:
Appletalk - I'm part of a LAN (which I also maintain) of Macs and PCs,
running the Appletalk protocol. When I boot up, when it gets to the
section of the startup scripts which launch Appletalk, it says "too many
routes/iface". The LAN has four appletalk zones, seperated via three
hardware routers (Compatible Systems RISCrouter 4000s). . . between one
of the routers and the YDL machine are a couple of hubs, but that should
be no big deal... what gives?
Also not working: Samba - however, I haven't attempted to poke around
inside of the configuration files for that one yet.
The network connection on this machine is on eth0, and it's running
TCP/IP just fine... the atalkd.conf file is empty, and i've also tried
it with just 'eth0' in it and there is no difference in the result.
Anyhoo..
Also: netscape, java - loading in any page that tells netscape to start
java causes netscape to flat out die. Perhaps a java problem? In any
case, is there a way to recompile Netscape somehow? I take it this is a
custom PPC version, because I can't find a PPC compile of Communicator
anywhere on Netscape.com...
Couple of other questions.. is there an office suite or a full
featured, X word processor (anything like StarOffice or WordPerfect for
Linux) that will run on a PPC version of Linux? All of the
installations and binaries for WP and StarOffice (that I could find,
anyway) wouldn't run, giving the error "Unable to execute binary file" -
I take it this is because I'm not running linux on an x86 machine, as
these programs expect? Are there any alternatives as far as a goodly
featured office suite for X (or a way to get Staroffice et. al to run on
YDL)? I need something to impress my bosses enough to use Linux for more
applications throughout the school I'm working for. :)
And... linuxconf tells me that the DNS isnt' responding to its requests,
and it's not - I'm running MacDNS on a 7350 Workgroup server behind the
same router this machine is connected to the LAN through. Doing DNS
lookups on the internet (through the proxy server, we use internal LAN
IPs for all the machines except the gateway to the internet) is working
fine through Netscape, and I can ping the DNS server as well, but
linuxconf is confused and is telling me that i could be looking at major
problems later on as a result of this. Should I be worried? I'm
considering just setting up a local, caching DNS server for all of this
anyway, using bind, so it may not be a big deal anyway, I'm just
curious. Thanks, and I hope you guys can help me out on a few of these
questions/problems (if not all!) :)
PS: Excellent job on the distro as a whole, I love the way X comes, KDE
is beautiful..
Steve
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