Re: [LI] apt-get

[Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

RAVIKANT K RAO proclaimed:
> 2] i can do a # telnet giasmda.vsnl.net.in while if i do a $ telnet
> giasmda.vsnl.net.in , it fails to match hostname with its IP 202.54.6.161
>   My /etc/resolv.conf is ok.

>From the prompts I am assuming that root is able to telnet while a normal
user is unable to.  Try doing an nslookup on giasmda.vsnl.net.in as a
normal user to see if the host resolves.

> 3] How do i restart gpm without rebooting if i run a # mouseconfig on a
> RedHat box , or # gpmconfig on a debian box ?  I tried a # ps aux|grep gpm
> , got a PID for it and did a killall -HUP , but it only killed , not
> restarted.So everytime i wanna see changes get effected , i was having to
> reboot , surely there must be someway to bypass that ?

/etc/init.d/gpm restart

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