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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In my school I've been running my LonCapa server in
my back room through a port set up by our tech guy. All went well for a
couple years, until last spring, when the box stopped working. The timing
roughly coincided with our school's switch to new service providers.
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since that time, we have been given new network
settings that do not work. A windows laptop can find the internet on my
port (using DHCP), but machines using their settings do not work.
We're trying to deal with this problem through the tech guy now.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In addition, during startup of the box (both
plugged to the network or not), we're getting plenty of errors like "audit
(1185989035.330:11): abc; denied {append} for pid=2119 comm="httpd"
name="lonnet.log"..." It stalls out at these errors.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As we're trying to puzzle through this, we are not
sure if it's the network settings causing the issues, or have we messed up our
LonCapa or Linux installations. Our tech guy isn't very "cooperative", so
we'd like to make sure our box is working so we can better troubleshoot our
connectivity problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are tempted to wipe the box clean and start
over, but the last time we did this, we angered the LonCapa gods and (in our
honor?) they made a new LonCapa.org web page with big red font that says "Never
Ever Just Wipe Out a Library Server!". Our Linux skills are lacking, but
in our defense, we set up and have been running fine for a couple
years...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here's the question: What should we try next,
and in what order? </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>ps- no, Ed, we don't want to be
hosted</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>