On Thu, 2004-06-17 at 21:07, John McBride wrote: > 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. Sorry, no idea. > 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. Change your domain name first using `domainname`. > 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. If you change the hostname of the machine, you will get the same problems. I am not sure why these errors occur, but I have the same problem, and the same fix works for me. Forrest
