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Hello! I'm a Linux student about to go through my finals and a project.
I'm having issues trying to configure certain packages to work right, so I
was hoping maybe some of you could point me in the right direction.

Here is a laundry list of packages, what I primarily need is an extremely
easy to understand and follow procedure, or a webpage that has one. In case
you're wondering, my book starts on step 10 instead of step 1, so I have
been ignoring it.

1. Configuring NIS - specifically what it means when my procedure says the
following:

Set NIS domain name:
master# domainname internal
master# ypdomainname internal

I tried typing in "master# my_domain_name internal" but it didn't work, and
neither did "my_domain_name internal."

2. My book says this exact thing:

Create the shadow.byname map by removing the comment symbol , *, from the
file name, shadow.byname in the /var/yp/Makefile configuarion file.

But there is no "commented out" line in that file.

3. Compiling a kernel: I downloaded the right file for compiling, but
something isn't working right.

As per my books procedure (I hate my book) it says for me to change the
directory of the file to /usr/src, which I did. It then says for my to type
the following command "make xconfig".....but nothing happens. Any ideas?

Any thing would be greatly appreciated.

Nick

I don't know about NIS but as for #3, your trying to recompile the kernel.
You need the sources
You may have installed when you loaded the machine or you may need to
download them.
Most distros locate them under /usr/src
so cd there and do "ls" to see what's there
you said you downloaded the source
is it in this directory?
did you uncompress it?
I believe if you uncompress it in /usr/src it will put the sources in a
sub-directory of /usr/src
"cd" into that sub-dir
you should see a bunch of stuff including the Makefile
do "make xconfig" there
this will give you the GUI configuration tool
there's still a lot more to it to compile and install a new kernel
google for "kernel howto" and find stuff that pertains to the version kernel
you're using, either 2.4.X or 2.6.x
good luck


(E-Mail Removed) wrote:

> Hello! I'm a Linux student about to go through my finals and a project.
> I'm having issues trying to configure certain packages to work right, so I
> was hoping maybe some of you could point me in the right direction.
>
> Here is a laundry list of packages, what I primarily need is an extremely
> easy to understand and follow procedure, or a webpage that has one. In
> case you're wondering, my book starts on step 10 instead of step 1, so I
> have been ignoring it.
>
> 1. Configuring NIS - specifically what it means when my procedure says
> the following:
>
> Set NIS domain name:
> master# domainname internal
> master# ypdomainname internal
>
> I tried typing in "master# my_domain_name internal" but it didn't work,
> and neither did "my_domain_name internal."
>
> 2. My book says this exact thing:
>
> Create the shadow.byname map by removing the comment symbol , *, from the
> file name, shadow.byname in the /var/yp/Makefile configuarion file.
>
> But there is no "commented out" line in that file.
>
> 3. Compiling a kernel: I downloaded the right file for compiling, but
> something isn't working right.
>
> As per my books procedure (I hate my book) it says for me to change the
> directory of the file to /usr/src, which I did. It then says for my to
> type
> the following command "make xconfig".....but nothing happens. Any ideas?
>
> Any thing would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Nick