Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:02:36 -0600 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, May 12, 2001 at 11:06:02AM -0600, Collins Richey wrote:
> 
> > > yeah, I had the same problem here, it worked after remerging
> > > sys-apps/net-tools. I found a problem in the yp-tools package, it
> installed
> > > ypdomainname,nisdomainname and domainname.  All those files still
> existed
> > > and where hardlinks to hostname coming from net-tools. I fixed
> yp-tools
> > > today. But also I found another hostname binary in /usr/bin. remove
> that
> > > binary (/usr/bin/hostname) manually please
> 
> > I rm'd it, but still no hostname.
> 
> Collins, you should expect to have problems until you back up your
> important data
> and reinstall Gentoo Linux with the "p" option.  Make sure that
> /etc/hostname and
> most other things in /etc are world-readable (except for /etc/shadow).
> 
> Again, I recommend a reinstall at this point, since it's hard to tell
> whether
> these bugs are problems with Gentoo Linux itself or just a side-effect of
> your
> permissions problem.
> 

Backing up important things is no problem, but reinstalling Gentoo linux
and getting the minimum things I need to run xfce, kde, and sylpheed is
about a 24 hour compile process on my 300Mz machine!

I have a spare partition, and I'll try the snapshot install again and
compare the permissions.

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver area
gentoo system