Re: [Sheflug] Caldera Horror!

[David Holden <dh [at] xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 18:25, James Wallbank wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> Aaaargh! (Sorry, I had to get that out of my system...)
> 
> I just tried to use the loathesome COAS (Caldera Open Administration
> System) to reconfigure our fileserver so that it looks at /etc/hosts
> BEFORE it checks a DNS server.
> 
> Simple enough, you may think, but now when I reboot NFS is not working.
> No copies of nfsd are running (there used to be four) and consequently
> we cannot serve out the /home directory.
> And before you ask, no, the system (which I didn't install myself) only
> provides two admin tools, COAS and vi).


Never heard of COAS, vi would be appropriate here..


Also are you sure you can pin point this COAS as the culprit here, i.e.
nothing else may have changed the nfsd start up scripts?


> 
> Do any of you have any specific experience of COAS quirks that may help
> me solve this problem FAST? If nobody replies today, I'm going to
> reinstall the system with Mandrake, so I can use linuxconf, which
> actually works as a configurator (no, I don't have the cranky old
> Caldera disks to hand... grouch, grouch, moan...)

 Have you though about webmin?


> 
> Hey, ho... a busy life is a happy life...
> 
> James
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