On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:26 -0800, tns1 wrote: > FC8: > There is a long timeout (> 10sec) when booting without a LAN connection. > I am not sure if this only waiting for a dhcp response or if it would > happen even if my IP was static. > > The behavior I'd like is to default to a specific static IP if I don't > get a dynamic assignment in 3 secs or so. Can I get this without a > kernel rebuild? man dhclient.conf See the "timeout" option. It looks like what you want. > Also how do I set the default tabstops from 8 to 4 in vim? There is no > .vimrc file. Then create one with the options that you want, I think it's: set tabstop=4 Might be useful: http://www.vim.org/tips/tip.php?tip_id=12 -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.