From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from axis.scu.edu.au(wwwproxy.scu.edu.au[203.2.32.1]) (1521 bytes) by braille.uwo.ca via smail with P:esmtp/D:aliases/T:pipe (sender: ) id for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 04:01:48 -0400 (EDT) (Smail-3.2.0.102 1998-Aug-2 #2 built 1999-Sep-5) Received: from alsvid.scu.edu.au (alsvid.scu.edu.au [203.2.33.1]) by axis.scu.edu.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA02771 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 18:01:45 +1000 (EST) Received: from data.home (mail@annex16.scu.edu.au [203.2.32.116]) by alsvid.scu.edu.au (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA17979 for ; Sun, 3 Sep 2000 18:01:44 +1000 (EST) Received: from geoff by data.home with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13VTOo-0002O7-00; Sun, 03 Sep 2000 17:37:02 +1100 Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2000 17:37:02 +1100 (EST) From: Geoff Shang To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Re: Stupid kernel question In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20000902172335.007c25a0@mail.ufw2.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Hi: You should be able to configure your network specs. If you need to add hardware, then you'll be set for a kernel recompile most probably. As for adding programs at start up, the convention for debian is that scripts live in /etc/init.d and are linked to the appropriate /etc/rcX.d directory, where X equals run-level. The scripts have a certain syntax, accepting certain commands like start, stop, restart, etc. Look at one for a worked example. Geoff. -- Geoff Shang ICQ number 43634701