On Mon, 22 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi...
>
> I'm sorry to ask this question, because I realize that it has been asked
> several times already... But, I have referred to those e-mails and still have
> had no luck.
That's okay.
> I just installed Red Hat 6.2 on my computer and downloaded the dhcdcp and
> followed all the instructions here
> http://acm.csres.utexas.edu/siglinux/dorm.html , but had no luck...
>
> When I rebooted the computer I recieved the following error message "Could not
> look up internet adress for happiness. [That's what I named the computer-or
> whatever] This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible
> to correct the problem by adding happiness to the file /etc/hosts"
Okay, in "/etc/hosts", there should be a line that says "127.0.0.1
localhost localhost.localdomain". Add "happiness" to this line. (I
wouldn't worry too much about Gnome though.)
> I just don't understand :( And if anyone could help out I'd Greatly appreciate
> it.
Well I know a little bit about how RedHat does things.
You should have a file called "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0".
Its contents should be:
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
If not, fix it.
Then when you reboot everything will be fine. (Or, if you don't want to
reboot yet again, type "ifup eth0". You may have to do "ifdown eth0"
first.)
If this still doesn't work, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and add
"/usr/sbin/dhcpcd eth1" to the end of it.
(I don't remember which version of Mandrake or RedHat screwed up the
scripts that would read "ifcfg-eth0". This will workaround that.)
When this is all done, download the RedHat updates (security fixes). There
is a worm going around that attacks fresh RedHat intallations. It's
probably quite popular on ResNet if ResNet is still like it was a few
years ago.
HTH, etc.
Paul
--
"I had to hit him -- he was starting to make sense."
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