Erin Lewy wrote: > > Hi. Well here I am finally subscribed. Actually I've been reading selected > bits of the list for a while (ooh I wanted to join in on the why Debian vs > Redhat > thread...) because my BF is subscribed to this list and has been for a while > (Hi, Tom!) >
Heh, why isn't he helping? ;) > The very short version of why I'm here is that I'm a hopeless apt-get addict > and could never go back to the hell that is RPM-searching (and not finding...) > ever again once I saw this thing. > > I'm a relative linux newbie going to an artsy fartsy college where I am > rapidly > realizing I am the most linux-savvy person on campus unless I am severely > miscalculating > (my immediate boss in the computer lab sometimes doesn't seem > WINDOWS-competant > but that's another story altogether). > > Anyway, my Linux savvy (yeah right) has landed me as co-admin of a student-run > webserver. I'm the linux geek, she's the HTML guru. Well, me being the newbie > that I am, I did mess some stuff up and I NEED YOU GUYS' HELP! No laughing. > :) > > Okay. Here's the deal. The poor machine was an ANCIENT P75 running (I didn't Ancient, huh? How bout a 486 DX2 66, or a 486 DX4 100? That's what I have at home as my firewall. :) > do it!) RedHat 5.1. They wanted a hardware upgrade, I wanted a system > upgrade. > When the hard drive failed, they REALLY wanted a hardware upgrade, and I > REALLY > wanted to never see RedHat again. So here we are. The new machine is a Xenon > somewhere in the neighborhood of 350MHZ (it doesn't matter with Linux so I've > forgotten already...) and 64 RAM. We're thinking of upping the RAM but not > sure > we need to right now.We got this machine free from the nice lab boy so we're Check your load average every once in a while, and mem usage. Then you'll know. Try the top and w command. > not complaining as yet. We popped in the RAM from the old machine as well as > a huge hard drive and I did the install okay. Only one small problem: > > The domain is registered with internic and we have a static IP. Only, I, being > the doofus that I often am, said yes when Debian's nice little install asked > me if I wanted to use DHCP/BOOTP. Why not? It works. I wanted to FTP the > backups > off my home machine anyway and just wanted to get us up and running ASAP. We > got Apache up and running and everything (Unfortunately I can't get into the > box right now to let you know what version it is...but I would assume it is > the most recent in the "Potato" directories...I just want to get everything > running before I mess with Woody because I'm paranoid as all hell.) I wouldn't run anything but stable on my servers, but that's just me. > > Well of course now we can't get it to take the old static IP due to using DHCP > so for all intents and purposes even though the machine is running we won't > be accessable save by IP address. And that IP address is dynamic. So it's not > happy. Not at all. Yes, I know, but earlier in the mail you promised not to > laugh at me, so don't start now. ;) OK, NP. > > So at some point after realizing our dilemma we found this web site which I've > been trying to search for for the past half hour and can't find it. In any > case > it told us to edit a file which was to have our current IP address on the > second > line and we could just change it and be done with it (I know I am being > excessively > vague here but at this point I was otherwise occupied and a fellow geek was > handling this aspect of it). Well this file had everything on one line and > changing > the IP (along with restarting inetd) did nothing.... We are quite at a loss. > > So my question is, how do I set the static IP in such a way that it will > actually > work? Permanently? ;) A swift response would really be appreciated as I have > to go deal with more networking and web server people relatively early in the > afternoon. I'm sorry I rambled so much > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null The immediate solution? Use the ifconfig command to set a static ip, remove the dhcp client with apt-get. Here's how to use ifconfig (more in the man page) I'm assuming that eth0 is your ethernet card for your static address: killall -9 dhcpcd this will stop the dhcp client process, unless you're not using dhcpcd. ifconfig eth0 <static goes here> edit /etc/init.d/network and place your static ip address in there. All of my machines are upgrades from slink and have customizations, so I cant' give you exact instructions on the changes needed. Is this soon enough for the afternoon? ;) -- Mike Fedyk "They that can give up essential liberty Information Systems to obtain a little temporary safety Match Mail Productions Inc. deserve neither liberty nor safety." [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Franklin
