I am currently playing around with both linux Fedora Core 2 and a windows 2000 server network.

Don't worry, this is related to linux. I was trying to get my linux machine internet access. It seemed i was having some problems with getting linux to recogize the DNS server.

I searched the forum and found out I had to modify the /ect/hosts and /ect/resolve files. The problem was, as I was logging in and out switching between my user account and my root account (for write access to the files) GNOME kept giving me errors.

The first error was that GNOME couldn't find my DNS and that would cause gnome to run improperly. Then as i continued to log in..things just started crashing. There were about 5 errors saying that certain applications wouldn't run. All my icons just came up as blank pages. Both as USER and ROOT.

Now that I have everything set up, it doesn't crash at login. but.....

My question is this. Why? How is GNOME so directly influenced by my DNS? realistically its just an IP address, how can that keep crashing my log-in?

Also How do i check what my current address is? I've tried su root and then ifconfig. but it gives me :

[root@shengkang user]# ifconfig
bash: ifconfig: command not found
[root@shengkang user]#




Thanks,
Dave

----still very much a n00b

Admittedly, I'm not a Fedora guy, but I'll take a crack at it.

I don't know why Gnome would be so affected by DNS servers. Could it just be a coincidence? There might be a script somewhere that's having trouble setting them up at login because they're already set up. Who knows?

Not being able to run ifconfig is a major problem. I seem to recall that on the last Fedora computer I worked on I had to mangle the $PATH a bit in order to make it useable. Try this at a command prompt:

This should tell you the location of ifconfig. Once you've found it, just open /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc (I think Fedora uses those) and add the full path to ifconfig to the line that says "PATH=blah:blah:blah". It should look something like this, assuming that ifconfig is in /usr/local/bin:

Let me know if this helps.

--Dane