[CLUE-Tech] Some RedHat 7.2 questions

[Garey Hoffman]

ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/6.2/en/iso/i386/

Good luck. Let us know if you find out what the problem is or if this 
version of Redhat behaves differently than RH7.2

---Garey

At 10:20 4/5/2002 -0700, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>On 04-05 08:13, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > On 04-05 07:44, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > > On 04-05 07:32, Randy Arabie wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > 2. Where and how do I config static IP in RH? I know an unused IP 
> address
> > > > > range I can select from, and would like to try that.
> > > >
> > > > You can use ifconfig to manually configure your interfaces.  BTW, 
> it is
> > > > a standard *nix command, not RH specific.
> > >
> > > Yes, but what happens on a reboot? Where is the proper place to 
> disable DHCP
> > > so it doesn't hang on trying to start up eth0? And I'd like the 
> static IP to
> > > be set on startup, too. Also, when I type ifconfig eth0 up, nothing 
> happens
> > > (after startup is finally done). Ifconfig DOES list eth0 interace (along
> > > with lo), but no associated IP with it.
> >
> > Doh. Well, I tried another cable just on a whim...that must have been it.
> > DHCP and other networking all work fine again. I just can't seem to make
> > reliable cables.
> >
> > Now for another question:
> >
> > I can't get Tomcat (4.0) to listen on port 80 because it needs privs to do
> > so...the server.xml file currently has the default in it, which is 
> 8180. Has
> > anyone else here used Tomcat on RH 7.2, and how did you get it to listen to
> > port 80? Do I need to setuid something?
> >
> > TIA,
>
>Well, back to the old drawing board. The network connection on the RedHat
>machine went down again.  Being very frustrated (there was nothing in
>/var/log/ to indicate what might have happened), I installed FreeBSD to see
>how it might behave on said box.
>
>So far, so good.  Are there any known issues with this card and RH 7.2? I'm
>also wondering if there was any IRQ conflicts, but I forgot to check before
>wiping RH - FreeBSD doesn't seem to have any, but that's kind of
>apples-to-oranges: it might not have configured all the hardware in the box.
>
>Here are the relevant lines from FreeBSD's /var/log/messages:
>
>Apr  5 02:36:54 freebsd2 /kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL>
>port 0xfcc0-0xfcff irq 11 at device 6.0 on pci0
>
>Apr  5 02:36:54 freebsd2 /kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:4b:23:3b:49
>
>
>Any help is appreciated. I really want to get RH set up and running on this
>box because our current target for the production machine is RH 7.2...I'm
>not sure whose decision this is, or if it's a restriction placed on us by
>the hosting service, but for now, it's RH.
>
>Anyone know where older RH x86 ISOs can be downloaded? I'd like to see if
>6.1 works on this box any better.
>
>TIA,
>--
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