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Re: netcfg ?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wittesaele Willy)
Mon Oct 21 18:43:04 1996

Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 00:01:23 +0200 (MET DST)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: Wittesaele Willy <wittesa@uia.ua.ac.be>
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At 10:59 21/10/96 -0500, you wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Oct 1996, Wittesaele Willy wrote:
>
>Hi. I'd be willing to bet you were running this from 'su -' instead of 
>'su'. I ran into the same problem when I ran netcfg from an xterm after 
>doing 'su -'. When I ran 'su' everything went fine. I don't exactly know 
>why this would occur but I know how to skirt around it for now ;)
>
>-Todd
>
>
>> Hello ,
>> 
>> Yesterday I started the installation of Redhat 4.0 (official version) and
>> everything
>> worked quite well. This was an installation on a complete new harddisk.
>> After the configuration of X I played a bit with "netcfg" and at a
certain time
>> netcfg wouldn't start anymore but gave the error :
>> 
>> Red Hat Linux netcfg 2.10
>> Copyright (C) 1996 Red Hat Software
>> Redistributable under the terms of the GNU General Public License
>> Traceback (innermost last):
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 1680, in ?
>>     win = WindowFrame(Toplevel())
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 1648, in __init__
>>     self.G = GV()
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 93, in __init__
>>     self.ESStaticRoutes = ConfESStaticRoutes()
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/Conf.py", line 385, in __init__
>>    Conf.__init__(self, '/etc/sysconfig/static-routes', '#', '\t ', ' ')
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/Conf.py", line 89, in __init__
>>     self.read()
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/Conf.py", line 388, in read
>>     self.initvars()
>>  File "/usr/lib/rhs/python/Conf.py", line 395, in initvars
>>     self.vars[var[0]] = [[var[2], var[4], var[6]]]
>> IndexError: list index out of range
>> 
>> Any idea how to fix it ?
>> 
>

No , I logged in as root , started X and launched netcfg and got the error
messages.

willy
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