[svlug] netscape-dynam problems...

[Rick Moen]

Javilk wrote:

> (Chuckle,) Maybe we need an installation help mailing list.

There _is_ comp.os.linux.setup.  Also, if you installed Official Red Hat,
you can e-mail Red Hat Software for personal assistance.  However:

> Just reloading does not help in the long run, even if sometimes 
> it might in the short run. 

I can imagine no likely way that the system could apparently work fine
except that the clibs are messed up.  The probable inference is that
you somehow clobbered them post-installation.  So, yes, reloading 
addresses that problem, just fine, in the long run.  Further, as I 
saId, observers on this list have had reason to suspect wider system
problems, as well.  One does not, in such cases, rearrange the deck
chairs while _continuing_ to steam towards the icefields off Grand Banks:  
One returns to Southampton for an immediate refit.

That has been the recommendation of several list members.  If you disagree,
well, good luck dodging icebergs.

You say you'll make the same mistakes.  Well, don't do that, then:
Watch what you do as "root".  I said, "I recommend reading _Running Linux_,
sir."  You rejoined, "I already have _Linux Bible_, Ensign.  Steady as
she goes."  I add, "Oh, and the Ice Watch[1] staff sent out another 
radiogram, sir."

To wit:  We gave recommendations (repeatedly, for free).  You don't 
like them.

You see the problem?  Getting a second opinion generally necessitates
a new clinic.
 
> (Laughing!)  WHAT hardware documentation???  No-name clone boards,
> minimal user documents having not even chipset info, etc. Even the Canon
> brand notebook does not detail which Western Digital chips are used.  How
> many of us have anything more than some simple sheets of paper telling us
> how to set the jumpers for various clock speeds and chip sets?

Life in the big city, friend.  Look it up on the Net, or take it up to the
fifth floor and give it what in Blyth Software's MIS Departemnt we called
the Acceleration Test -- drop at the same time as a reference 386 known 
to plummet at 9.8 meters/sec^2.

[1] Historical note:  Which of course was established only _after_ the
1912 disaster.

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