On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 03:40 +0100, iurodivii wrote: > thank you very much you two...i am reading up on the http://linuxcommand.org/ tutorial site on the command line and after that i will check out your suggestion www.tldp.org thierry. if anything learning to get fedora up and running will teach me a helluva lot!! > Anytime, that is what the list is for. > > Michael, > less /etc/resolv.conf returned a blank screen On my machine it returns my primary DNS entry, Ymmv, depending on how you have your networking set up. Sounds like you have an empty file. > less /etc/host.conf returned an all but blank screen with "order hosts, bind" at the bottom. > i'll be reading up on this but all help is graciously appreciated. My host.conf is exactly the same. That is the only line in the file :) Good luck on your reading, and welcome to the community > > Chris > > > -- > This is an email sent via the webforum on http://fcp.homelinux.org >