Redhat7.1 Questions

[Janina Sajka]

Hi, Don:

The Redhat component that you see during the installation is really sort 
of a form that collects your preferences. When it installs the various 
linux components, it then uses your preferences to write appropriate 
values in various configuration files. Once you reboot at the end of the 
installation, those settings will be in effect. Thereafter, you will not 
need to reboot in order to change to other preferences. There are ways to 
restart portions of the linux system without rebooting the entire system. 


In general, you'll find that you almost never need to reboot linux--unlike 
that other OS where rebooting is the norm. In fact, rebooting is so rare 
on linux, that many of us take pride in high uptime numbers. To get a 
sense of what that is, type 'uptime' as root and check out the stats on 
how long your system has been up. As I write this, I have gone to my 
office linux system where I find it has been up for 11 days running. Hmmm, 
only 11 days? Must have been some kind of electrical problem there! Oh, 
no, wait, I remember, I installed a piece of hardware and didn't want to 
that with the machine running! <grin>

I cannot help you with ICQ, but I see from my mailbox that others are 
addressing that question.


 On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, djc 
wrote:

> Question about their fire wall first. When we set it to medium or high or
> none does the change take effect right away or do we have to log off linux
> and back on? Also we're having quite a bit of trouble with the icq servers
> keeping connection. We're trying micq which I like and have used before
> under slackware. It keeps dropping the connection but the adsl connection
> here is good and stable. It could be their servers but any thoughts would
> be appreciated.
> 
> 		     Msn or mailto:djc2 at pacbell.net
> 
>      I C Q Number is: 4781694
> 
> 
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