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alexpgpI finally unearthed my RedHat 7.1 distro CDs and installed linuxconf on 'alice', the Linux box at the store. It took a little while, as I allowed myself to be distracted by the RedHat Package Manager, which blithely told me that an error had been encountered while installing linuxconf, with no further illumination.
So I installed the utility using the command line, with no problems that I could see. Shortly thereafter, I'd properly configured the network settings for the machine, but could not see past the router for some reason.
The 'route' command showed a default route with '*' as the gateway, which I suspected was the problem. On a whim, I entered the command
route add default gw router
(where 'router' is defined in /etc/hosts, and 'gw' stands for 'gateway'), and bingo! Alice can now see the world.
Customer coming, more later.
Cheers...
So I installed the utility using the command line, with no problems that I could see. Shortly thereafter, I'd properly configured the network settings for the machine, but could not see past the router for some reason.
The 'route' command showed a default route with '*' as the gateway, which I suspected was the problem. On a whim, I entered the command
route add default gw router
(where 'router' is defined in /etc/hosts, and 'gw' stands for 'gateway'), and bingo! Alice can now see the world.
Customer coming, more later.
Cheers...
