all kinds of probs...

[snowgod]

Hey there everyone. I have just installed suse 6.4 and have had a few probs with it. I can't find anything comperable to rc.local in redhat as a startup script, can I just make like a perl script that calls all the stuff I want (portsentry, etc), and if I can how do I make that load at startup?

second, and this can be our network because it is really a ****ty one, but if I am idle for a while, I loose my internet connection until I am physically at my machine doing stuff, thus ruining any attempts for a remote connection so I can work on my machine say from home or work, can this be prevented, maybe a way to send packets so it looks like I am online?

third and last, I use loadlin to duel boot my computer, but after I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.17, and copied vmlinuz to my windows partition, it still boots up the 2.2.14 kernel, I have even tried to delete the one on my windows partition and re-add this one, but it is the only vmlinuz on my system, and I have never had this problem before until suse, is it a suse problem?

Thanks for any help you can give on any of these topics...

[ph34r]

1) Look in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d

2) Maybe set a cron job to ping some address (www.microsoft.com?) every 5 minutes - just send 3 pings and send the output to /dev/null. A little bash scripting is all it takes, and then submit it to cron once it does what you want it to.

3) Did you get the right kernel copied? If you recompiled it yourself with "make bzImage", it should be in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage