I'm the proud new owner of a Vx42-F3 UDM with (now that it has been de-NT'd)
Red Hat 4.0. Istallation was a little wierd (ie I'm not used to dealing with
an Alpha), but with the help of the Red Hat User's Guide (Thanx for releasing
it guys!) and the installation instructions from DGC
(http://www.dcginc.com/linux.htm), I've got `er up, running and autobooting
from poweron.
Couple of issues:
The clock business is definitely wierd. The ARC console clock was set to
local time when I installed; I selected GMT and US Eastern during the install,
then used the Time Machine from Control_panel to reset the clock.......Bad
Idea(tm). LOTS of the filesystem got interesting new dates in the year 2015,
and it hosed up the (ARC) system clock. SOLUTION: Manually set ARC console
to GMT, edit /etc/sysconfig/clock to say CLOCKMODE="ARC" and life is good. I
used a find / -name \* -exec touch \; lashup to bring the files into this
century again. This revealed a circular sysmink somewhere under /usr/X11R6 of
X11R6 --> ../X11R6 (or something similar, working from memory here). Once I
cleared that up, the find ran OK.
Name resolution is WIERD. With no nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf, the system
will read /etc/hosts and resolve those hosts listed properly. But with a
(yes, functional) nameserver in /etc/resolv.conf, the resolver will not
resolve the hosts in /etc/hosts (ie nicknames) but will resolve FQDNs. A
quick check in /etc/host.conf reveals: "order hosts,bind" and "multi on". Am
I missing something, or is this broken?
I'm also experiencing the "fsck of /usr" at every startup. I tried copying
/usr/lib/libnss* to /lib as David Mosberger <davidm@azstarnet.com>
suggested..... NO JOY. Mounting the partition ro at least prevents the
regular fsck-ing, but the partition is still not being unmounted at shutdown.
During startup, I see an error message about noting being able to find
depmod. Thinking that /etc/rc.sysinit needed a path or something, I looked
for depmod and couldn't find it. Did it somehos get left out of the
distrobution. Which RPM should it live in ?
Is makewhatis still in cron to run in the wee hours and update the whatis
databases? I couldn't find it 8-(
Is there a FAQ somewhere that addresses the peculiarities of kernel compiles
in the Alpha in general and the UDB in particular? I'm specifically
interested in things like: which ethernet card, what address for sound, etc.
Not a Red Hat issue but a performance question: This system (as do most of
the newly delivered UDBs) has 24MB of RAM and seems to be swapping quite a
bit. Does anyone have any experience with actual (benchmarked) or perceived
performance increases when adding RAM? In what quantities?
TIA
Al
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