Re: flexfax: HylaFAX and RPM's

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Mon, 25 May 1998, Dave Parker wrote:

> >The RedHat 5.1 release is also coming out Real Soon Now. I am
> >frightened of the implementation of "linuxconf". That broken piece of
> >GUI !@#$ really, really screwed up my attempt to set up Linux
> >as a gateway machine from home to my ISP.
> >
> >But we should perhaps save efforts to set up an RPM for *THAT*.
> 
> Hmmm..  I think I'll do a clean install of 5.1 on a virgin machine and try
> to get HylaFAX built on that and see what happens.  It took me a few tries
> before I finally got it right on COL 1.2, but all it took was a fairly
> thorough reading of the docs and the humility to assume that the writer
> knew what he/she was talking about.  I guess those two things (reading AND
> trusting the docs) are not as common as you might think.

I read them. I thought I understood them. It proceeded to *DELETE* the
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo script and screw up the
"localhost" entry, and does not use the "localhost" entry in its
default "instant /etc/hosts with machines named after fruit" setup.

This is a sign of sloppy writing, as well as the way that it just says
"start me saving stuff" without really listing what it intends to do.
And it really screwed up diald: I am *NOT* happy with the last version
of linuxconf that I tried.

			Nico Garcia
			Senior Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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