Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: No network = no compile ??? | Date | Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:01:51 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@level3.com> said: > On 20-Aug-99 Linux Lists wrote:
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> > My department's switch was down, which disconnected my systems from the > > network (and, thus, from the Internet, DNS server, and so on). In this > > situation, I couldn't compile the kernel !!! If I did a 'make bzlilo', it > > would get stuck in the first compilation (main.c). Why is that ?? > > > > Once the network came back up, I could compile the kernel as usual, > > without having to change anything in the Linux system.
> Somewhere in the beginning of the compile there is a script that determines > who@where compiles. Compile may fail if it returns an error.
Then place the required data in /etc/hosts, and make /etc/nsswitch.conf use that before DNS for resolving hostnames. As a sideffect, sendmail(8) starts much faster on boot ;-) -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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