On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 17:17, ogulla@uonbi.ac.ke wrote: > Hi all, > Got this debian beast running **illegally** on the company network. My Best of luck, but be careful. I worked at a company where an employee got fired for playing Solitaire on his computer. I'd imagine installing an OS would be even more threatening to paranoid business types. :) > problem is that everytime I've got to reboot it, the dhcp server running > on M$ NT, assigns the NIC a proper IP address but overwrites my > resolv.conf with something like "KSL\000". Changing resolv.conf permisions > to -r--r--r-- did not yield fruit. How do I stop this from occurring. This is a problem with the MS DHCP server being broken. I'm guessing you're using dhclient. The only way I've ever been able to get around this consistently is using 'pump'. (apt-cache show pump) > Secondly, once in a while I'm forced to unplug the network cable to detach > the machine from the network whenever the IT guys undertake an audit. All > applications continue to function well but get /var/log/syslog filled up > with dhclient-2.2.x error messages while some other app keeps writing "-- > MARK --" in /var/log/messages. Looks like my limited disk space shall all > be eaten up by log files. Any idea on how to reduce the amount of logging > in my case?? Running 'ifdown' before unplugging should at least take care of the dhclient errors. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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