Just 2 problems: services starting & connectivity

[rebeccae]

We are using Caldera Linux, running web, mail and ftp servers.

Problem #1: Services don't start on reboot until someone logs in to the console. As soon as someone logs in (root or whoever) everything is good.

Problem #2: It seems to loose connectivity to the network after every five minutes or so unless someone is actively using it. (ethernet connection) As soon as someone pings out from it or whatever it is fine. With a small script to ping out every 5 min it runs fine. I am not aware of any time out for ethernet.

Anyhow, chances are there are simple answers that I am overlooking. Any help would be hugely apprecitated.

Rebecca

[Eccentric]

The services probably need to be put into "/etc/inittab". Here's an example of how ncftpd on my machine is listed there:

nc:2345:respawn:/usr/local/etc/ncftpd/ncftpd -q /usr/local/etc/ncftpd/general.cf /usr/local/etc/ncftpd/domain.cf

respawn will make sure it's running, and will start it again if it dies.

The same thing applies to web, mail, etc, etc.