On Thursday 06 June 2002 10:25, J wrote: > Okay, > > i've come to the conclusion that bering (at least in my config) > can't reboot my machine. That said, what would be the best way > of achieving the same effect as a reboot? ie. how would I flush > everything and rerun all the startup scripts?
Change to runlevel 6. This is the only way to re-run all the startup scripts without issuing restart commands for each one. > I need to do this, as pump is incapable of holding my cable modem > connection for more than a couple of hours. For the life of me, i > can't figure out why it works at startup and not once it's running. > Shorewall is configured to work w/ dhcp (it says so in its startup > script), and i'm allowing all connections and ports.. i can't see > any reason for a dhcp request to fail. I don't either. I haven't heard of anyone that has had this problem. You have most likely configured something wrong. You could get some useful help if you would send the information requested for mailing-list help found here: http://sourceforge.net/docman/display_doc.php?docid=1891&group_id=13751 > It's bothersome that windows can reboot my machine, and linux can't. > Windows can maintain my internet connection, linux can't. Admittedly, > I am relatively new at this, but I've literally looked everywhere > in this bering set up for a solution. If Windows is not configured properly, it won't work either. I would doubt there is a problem with the dhcp client binary, otherwise very few of us would be using it. Resolving the configuration problem will probably make you feel better about Linux. I've used Linux for DHCP for _many_ years without problems with several clients, I am sure your system will work too once the problem is located and fixed. I hope this helps, -- ~Lynn Avants aka Guitarlynn guitarlynn at users.sourceforge.net http://leaf.sourceforge.net If linux isn't the answer, you've probably got the wrong question! _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
