[svlug] Computer Setup

[Karl F. Larsen]

Yes Todd, either right click or as root put the numbers in
/etc/resolv.conf. In fact when you right click a panel comes up asking for
your root password...:-) so doing it in a manual way might be simpler!

On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Todd Lyons wrote:

> "Karl F. Larsen" wrote:
>
> >         On Red Hat Linux the whole thing was the same. I looked at my
> > setup and no DNS entry. I put it in and now Linux connects much faster. By
> > the way it's a little like windows. You right click the little internet
> > box and then click Properties and then advanced and there were the empty
> > DNS entry places...:-) But you only need to put them in once.
>
> Can you be a little more descriptive about where you are putting this?
> Is not /etc/resolv.conf good enough?  I know not how to right click on
> anything to do this.  Is this dialup, DSL, cable-modem, other?  If it's
> DHCP, then the DHCP server can be optimized to provide this information.
>
> BTW, this is similar to one of my complaints at my local LUG.  (Note:
> Karl, I'm not accusing you of being a newbie, just that the situation
> appears to be similar.)  Mandrake is very big in our LUG (the other
> officers push it very hard).  A newbie brings in a Mandrake box, clicks
> on some icon and says "configure my system."  I don't know how to do
> things with the GUIs.  I usually Ctrl-Alt-F2 and have them login as root
> and do it that way.  As a nice side effect, they tend to think of you as
> a god.
> --
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Yours Truly,

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