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In article <Dx4nFz.8yu@syd.csa.com.au>, Dave Fitch wrote:
>Everything worked fine until the weekend when I installed a few
>more bits from the Slackware 3.0 cdrom.  CNews and tcl/tk to be
>precise.  However I installed other handy looking things from
>the networking disk set and it's possible I re-installed dip, ppp
     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     Here's your problem.
>and other network stuff (not sendmail though).

>After this I discovered (at the next reboot) that it had reverted
>to the "darkstar" default hostname.  /etc/HOSTNAME was emtpy,
>/etc/hosts only had the default localhost and was missing my ISPs
>IP address etc, and /etc/resolv.conf had lost the nameserver lines.
>I restored all this and now it thinks it's spiral again.  All seems
>ok except for that damn sendmail error and dip not working.

Did you have a modified /etc/sendmail.cf and possibly some dip
scripts?  They're pro'ly gone or overwritten too.

>What have I missed??!!  I'm all out of ideas.

Slackware re-installation *will* without any warning whatsover,
overwrite files that it wants to install.

This is a "feature" of slackware.

If you want something that doesn't do this, or at least, provides more
warning if you do so, then try redhat.

Alternately, upgrade everything from sources yourself, and don't touch
pkgtool upgrades.

Later,

   Thorfinn

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