From: Niall O Broin (niall at domain magicgoeshere.com)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 11:27:34 IST
On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:36:47AM -0700, Eugene O'Leary wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. Firstly the script did not work. I got an error
> message: "missing }."
I'm afraid you copied it wrongly then - I just had a look at the mail I sent
and that little one liner was OK - all its { & } were in the right places (I
cut it and pasted it from a window where it had worked)
> I failed to ping any of the addresses. When I tried any of the www's I got
> "unknown host" and when I tried the numbers I got "100% package loss"
OK - that's informative - sounds like your PPP link is not up or is very
sick. The one line will confirm whether or not it's up. To repeat, it's
ping `ifconfig ppp0|grep P-t-P|awk -F: '{print $3}'|awk '{print $1}'` -c 1
> Apache is installed by default on my computer and I think it may be causing
> the problem. When I am starting Linux I get the following message, as it
> goes through the start-up menu: "Unable to start httpd. Cannot determine
> localhost name. Use the ServerName directive to set it manually." I just
> have'nt got a clue how to do that, as I am really a newbie.
Don't worry about that - you must not have your computer's hostname / domain
set up correctly. As you have no interest in running Apache at this stage,
just ignore these messages.
> When I shut down I get "shutting down http: failed".
Shutting down httpd fails because it wasn't started - you can't turn off
something which isn't on :-)
> I am wondering if I uninstalled Apache, would it solve the problem.
It'd solve the problem of httpd error messages :-) Unfortunately, it'd do
nothing for your PPP problem.
> have this computer networked another one so I may have caused the problem
> when I was configuring the network.
That's a possibility - can you ping the other computer from this one ?
> Any idea how I can uninstall Apache?
Yes, but it's completely irrelevant, so don't worry about it.
> It is 2.30a.m. now and my head is completely done in, so I am going to call
> it a day.
Good idea ! BTW on looking through my sent mail to make sure that I had sent
you the script correctly, I noticed that we had this conversation (more or
less) back in April, at which stage you resolved the problems. Is this the
same machine ? If so, why didn't you leave well enough alone when you got it
working that time :-)
Regards,
Niall
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