tlug: the pros and cons of under-reconfiguring your kernel

[Tony Laszlo <laszlo@example.com>]

>     Tony> I am glad you had a good chortle looking at my .config file.
> 
> That wasn't _yours_, I assume; presumably it was TL's.  There's good
> reason for them to bloat their kernel; but you don't need to.

To set the record straight, that was _mine_, in fact. 
Why did I reconfigure a kernel for a laptop and include 
such networking components? because I had been following 
advice which said, "the default configuration shouldn't 
give you any problems; just try changing the processor 
setting, turn of the math emulation and maybe tweak the 
sound card settings. 
since I still don't _really_ know what a lot of the 
stuff in the configuration menu means, I thought it was 
good advice, even though my kernel would be bigger and 
have a lot of stuff that I would never use. For a duffer 
who runs into trouble and has to spend hours, days and 
weeks learning and fixing things, this sounded like 
pretty good advice. 
Of course, my current setup is preferable.  
 
My recent trouble is less life-threatening. 
Trouble of the week: after quitting Gnome and clicking 
"save current setup", then going back into X with startx, 
all the xterms wind up in the first desktop. haven't 
seen any record or fix for this in the newsgroups. 
Sound familiar to someone?

On another note, if anyone needs advice on how to switch 
back and forth between two sendmail.cf files (one which 
will allow the user to send mail from pine without getting 
a 451 "sender domain must resolve" error and one which 
will send all the outgoing mail to the host), let me 
know; I'll be glad to share my current recipe. Of course, 
one day I will have only _one_ sendmail.cf file that 
does everything. This will probably occur before Japan's 
moves the capital back to Kyoto... 
 


> _Now_ you have a "maiconfu" :) :) :)
> And that's what I like about Linux.
 

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Next Nomikai: September 17 (Fri), 19:30 Tengu TokyoEkiMae 03-3275-3691
Next Technical Meeting: October 9 (Sat), 13:00     place: Temple Univ.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
more info: http://www.tlug.gr.jp        Sponsor: Global Online Japan