Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)

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Author: DavidMandalaDavid.Mandala@DevelopOnline.com
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Subject: Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)
SWAT is not run fro apache. It is its own daemon runs from inetd or equiv.

RH 70 is BAD, VERY BAD.

Go into /etc/inetd.conf and into /etc/services and uncomment the lines with
SWAT in it and restart inetd then use a browser to hit the port specified in
the services file.

Good Luck

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Trent Shipley [mailto:tshipley@symbio-tech.com]
> Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2001 6:52 PM
> To:
> Subject: Upgrade to RH7.0 woe (was No eth0)
>
>
> Good news; The SMC card does indeed work.
>
> News: After the first attempt to upgrade to RH7.0 the system
> would only boot
> from the emergency floppy. However, a second pass through
> the installation
> process got the system to boot from the hard drive, go figure.
>
> Bad news:  Prior to the upgrade the Window Manager worked.  After the
> upgrade it comes up, properly displays a startup screen in 
> GNOME or KDE,
> then proceeds to paint the whole screen black.  It scatters 
> windows randomly
> all over the screen, and likes to loose its place -- like you 
> would expect
> if the monitor were being over-driven.
>    So I re-ran Xconfigurator, and it named the Video-Card and 
> Monitor to the
> letter from its database.  The test is great, the herringbone 
> pattern is
> fine -- just like before.
>    Time to try 'startx' again.  Same thing.  It likes to 
> paint the screen
> black, paint app-windows more than once, and tile patterns 
> diagonally over
> the screen.  In KDE refreshing the screen pretty much works, 
> except that the
> next action screws everything up all over again.

>
>
> Why is this critical? Because my colleague Joe is going to
> want to use SWAT
> to configure SAMBA. (He doesn't believe in idiotically difficult hand
> configuration. He is now TOTALLY convinced that Windows 2000
> is a real OS
> and GNU/Linux is a learning tool that is designed to be
> buggy, impossible to
> use, and obscenely difficult to learn.)
>
> ---------------
> Of course to run SWAT it looks like I'll need to configure 
> Apache and start
> httpd.
>     This is quickly turning into a comic debugging session 
> of infinite regress.
> ---------------

>
>
> > I avoid the Linksys
> > cards - when I
> > can go to Fry's and get an SMC-EZ card which will be
> detected right out of
> > the box for $15. Everything else seems pointless.
> >
> > Craig
>
>
>
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