On 20-Aug-99 Linux Lists wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Yesterday I faced a very weird problem, and I don't know what to guess.
> Please help me out.
>
> My department's switch was down, which disconnected my systems from the
> network (and, thus, from the Internet, DNS server, and so on). In this
> situation, I couldn't compile the kernel !!! If I did a 'make bzlilo', it
> would get stuck in the first compilation (main.c). Why is that ??
>
> Once the network came back up, I could compile the kernel as usual,
> without having to change anything in the Linux system.
Somewhere in the beginning of the compile there is a script that determines
who@where compiles. Compile may fail if it returns an error.
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Anton R. Ivanov
IP Engineer Level3 Communications
RIPE: ARI2-RIPE E-Mail: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@level3.com>
@*** Barber's Law of Backpacking (No 5 of 11) ***
The difficulty of finding any given trail marker is directly
proportional to the importance of the consequences of failing
to find it.
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