Redhat7.1 Questions

[djc]

Thanks Janina for your response and I'm really pleased with my linux and
how well it's gone for us here. It's now running like clockwork. Thanks for
every ones help. I probably will have further questions but so far I am
quite pleased.


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On 9/16/01 at 1:27 PM Janina Sajka wrote:

>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.
>> 
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