I am a Solaris user trying to get up to speed on Red Hat. Using RH 7.2. I'm liking a lot of things about Linux/Gnome verses Solaris/CDE.
Is there a guide to Linux for Solaris Admins out there? Here are some Solaris actions that I cannot figure out the (low level) Linux equivalent. I think the GUI tool is KAPUT. Change hostname: edit /etc/hostname.<interface_id> Change IP address tied to an interface: edit /etc/hosts Change gateway: edit /etc/defaultrouter Change netmask edit /etc/netmasks Linux seems to combine all of this in an interface specific file in /etc/sysconfig. But it seems like it cannot be changed after installation I use the GUI tool. But it does not take. For example, I enter the IP address and hostname for eth0, but it never makes into hosts. Should it? As I fool around, I periodically lose the ability to run the window manager. Then I edit a file called network, and it comes back. I got to where I could boot up (get an IP address used by another interface) error initializing eth0 . Then assign an interface its IP address using ifconfig. And I can add the default route at the command prompt. So the system is working so long as I don't have to restart whilst I am not in the office. The error on boot for eth0 is : some other host already uses address 192.168.60.45. Much to the surprise of the other systems on the subnetwork. ifup reaches this conclusion after running a program called arping. So I comment that check out, and all seems to be well. After these problems, I installed initscripts-6.43-1.i386.rpm. But maybe it was too late. Is IP interface management simply broken in this release of Red Hat? Are there more bugfixes I need? Is there such a thing as a consolidated patch download? Robert Monical Reservation Technologies, Inc. Technology Solutions for Destination Marketing Organizations President and Technologist [EMAIL PROTECTED] 360-253-2365 Cell: 360-608-1229 Fax: 360-253-2518 www.restek.com _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
