[SunHELP] newbie unclear on post installation steps of solaris 8 on ultra sparc...

[William Enestvedt]

> > You might want to also execute 'touch /etc/notrouter' so
> > that the system won't even *bother* trying to route traffic
> > next time it boots.
> >
>
> OK, I'm a little vague on this... does this force it to stop
> trying to route stuff for itself altogether? Is that what you mean?
>
   Nonono -- it's just that there's a section of an RC script
[/etc/inti.d/inetinit] that goes looking for the /etc/notrouter file, and
simply skips a big chunk of code if the files doesn't exist. In this case,
it's the code that wants to set up routing between two interfaces. (Obviously,
it goes on to check whether you _have_ two interfaces, but...)
   Which reminds me: you can often comment out or excise bits of the RC
scripts that do stuff you don't want, but you may be better off finding out
shortcuts like this one.
   Does that help any?
-wde
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Will Enestvedt
UNIX System Administrator
Johnson & Wales University -- Providence, RI