On Thu, Nov 25, 1999 at 06:33:28PM -0500, Michael J. McGillick wrote:
> I am running Red Hat 6.1 and apply all of the patches posted by Red
> Hat as they come out. The other day I downloaded the latest
> initscripts and sysklogd updates and applied them. Today, when I
> sat at the computer, I noticed my net connection appeared to not be
> working. When I did an ifconfig, it showed I had an IP Address.
> But when I tried to traceroute, ping, telnet, open pine, etc., they
> all just hung and did nothing.
>
> I have a cable modem, and it has worked flawlessly with Linux. My
> provider uses DHCP, so I just about all of my info through pump.
> The only thing I could remember changing was adding those two
> packages in. I also thought that maybe there was a problem with
> Ethernet card, or something up with my provider. After contacting
> my ISP, they confirmed they were not having any problems. Also, my
> card worked in another machine I put it into. Further, I thought
> something may have gone whacky, and not knowing everything to check,
> I did a shutdown -r and rebooted. It took almost 15 minutes for the
> machine to come back up, and stalled on things like system logger,
> sendmail, and a few others.
>
> The last thing I did was force install the two older versions of the
> initscripts and sysklogd rpms off of the 6.1 CD. After rebooting,
> voila - my machine was back to normal. Anyone else notice problems
> with the sysklogd or initscripts posted by Red Hat on their updates
> site?
FWIW, I have done these updates and have DSL with DHCP protocol and am
using pump, but have not had these problems. Curious ...
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