mm8s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer) (04/05/88)
Hello: I have 4 3b2/400's running System V 3.0 version 2. These four machines have (supposedly) identical hardware, and as far as I can ascertain identical software. However the kernel (/unix) on one of the four machines is 5004 bytes smaller than on the other three. I've checked all the files in /boot and /etc/master.d and they seem to be the same on all machines. Now I wouldn't worry about the difference in size except that the machine in question refuses to transfer files using FTP (We are running the AT&T supplied version of Wollongong TCP/IP). Actually the situation is a little more complicated. The "bad" 3b2 will ftp files to the other 3b2's but won't transfer anything to my Unix microvaxes. I've tried copying the tcp/ip binaries and the files in /boot and /etc/master.d from a "good" 3b2 -- and then rebuilt the kernel, but nothing seems to help. Has anyone ever seen anything like this? Does anyone have any idea what else I should be doing? Any help/hints appreciated.
mm8s+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Meyer) (04/05/88)
Never mind...... I had a bad character in the /etc/system file (damn). Ftp still doesn't work correctly, but now at least the kernels are all the same size ;-) --Mike