A chortling we'll go...

[alexpgp]

In obeisance to one's initial contact with frustration, I conform as well as the next well-bred citizen to the real scouting motto:

When in trouble, when in doubt...
Run in circles, scream and shout!

After a moment's fun, though, it's time to turn to, and see what can be done to salvage the situation.

A bothersome nit kept bobbing just under the surface of my consciousness, like a bone in a stew. Finally, it hit me... the Linux backup CDs I looked at earlier in the day were not the most recent ones. I had, in fact, been looking at (probably) the most recent one just the other day to get at a Perl script.

After having put up my translation for the day, I went through my CDs, and in the process realized that their organization (or lack thereof) was worse than I remembered it.

Add that as a to-do for the new year.

In any event, I finally found what I was looking for, in the place I had left it (in the CD drive on the eSlate). And... my old configuration files are frozen happily on the disk.

* * *After reinstalling RH 7.1, I really don't see much of a difference, except that there is now an ftp daemon where one is supposed to be. I had to go in and enable the poor thing, though, and then stop and restart xinitd so I could actually ftp into the machine.

Now, if only I could solve important problems as easily!

Cheers...

Comments

unimportant tip

[gaal.livejournal.com]

Rather than actually stop and start it, send your inetd replacement a HUP signal (kill -1 pid-of-xinetd). That forces a reload of the configuration without stopping the listening services.

Re: unimportant tip

[alexpgp.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I never can remember the syntax to do that.

Now, all I have to do is find a config file for sendmail that's useful for a my setup (machine behind router with with dynamic IP, etc.)...

Cheers...