Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 09:00:49 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: willvito@niia.net Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD questions.... Message-ID: <9604241500.AA15743@fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199604240208.VAA11942@silver.niia.net> (willvito@niia.net)
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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill Vitaniemi <willvito@niia.net> writes:
Bill> myname.my.domain: bad value
Search for myname.my.domain in the file /etc/sysconfig and replace it
with the correct value.
Bill> Even so, I still need to understand why the error. The is
Bill> also another error that says something about the router
Bill> value being bad just before the above lines.
Are you seeing ``Writing to routing socket: file exists''?
Bill> After BSD configured, then it's off to configuring x-windows.
Have fun ... and good luck! :-)
Bill> Another problem I have (on my online machine) is that it
Bill> appears that the hard drive is going to sleep after
Bill> awhile. If the machine has been sitting awhile and I then go
Bill> to do something on it, I hear the hard drive wind up. Have
Bill> been getting "seek errors" at the same time. I'm assuming
Bill> they are related.
Do you have one of those so-called ``green'' PCs? If you've got a
CMOS config screen which lets you turn of the green features, turn
'em off!
Bill> Just yesterday, when I exited x-windows, my monitor just
Bill> went blank. If I blindly typed in startx, x-windows would
Bill> start up. But same blank screen everytime I exited
Bill> x-windows.
That happened to me a few times, too. It's damn annoying and I'm not
sure what causes it yet. The only advice I have: just be careful and
try not to switch virtual consoles while X is either starting up or
shutting down.
Hang in there.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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