Fedora Users — Three FC1 minor quibbles

1) Out of all linux machines in my building (dozens) one machine (with an intel gigabit ether card) does not have the IFF_MULTICAST flag set. This seems really odd, since I've seen msgs on the web implying that pretty much every ether card is multicast capable. Ignore the unset flag and multicast works fine.

2) Changing the yp/nis server in /etc/yp.conf and /etc/sysconfig/networking (NISDOMAIN), then doing a /etc/init.d/ypbind restart fails. It somehow caches the /etc/sysconfig/networking entry, and ignores changes to the NISDOMAIN entry. Even /sbin/init 1 then /sbin/init 3 won't pick up the change. Rebooting the machine, however, does work.

3) Logging into the same account from multiple machines (using dhcp/NIS and a NFS home directory) somehow breaks gdm or gconfd (I think those are the daemons) terribly. The machines often refuse to log out of X, demanding a ctrl-alt-backspace, and logging back in displays a number of gnome startup errors. rm -rf'ing the contents of /tmp fixes this.

These three things have caught me by suprise lately, so I thought I'd share :-)

Regards,
John