msitd22@ms3.UUCP (Jim Chappell) (11/21/86)
We got the 4.2 BSD tapes last month and installed it on a DEC 11/780 per the installation instructions. Running mail I get the error message: Socket: Protocol not supported Cannot open /dev/console: Protocol not supported I get equivalent messages with sendmail and telnet. A local sub-guru though we needed to add pseudo-device ether to the configuration file. It didn't help. I suspect this is a release problem. Can anyone shed some light on the required fix? Thanks, Jim Chappell ...!seismo!vrdxhq!ms3!jrc ISN Corp. 1235A Jeff Davis Hwy, Suite 220 Arlington, Va 22202 -- Jim Chappell ...!seismo!vrdxhq!ms3!jrc ISN Corp. 1235A Jeff Davis Hwy, Suite 605A Arlington, Va 22202
jsdy@hadron.UUCP (Joseph S. D. Yao) (12/29/86)
Again, apologies if this was answered while our news was down. In article <490@ms3.UUCP> msitd22@ms3.UUCP (Jim Chappell) writes: >Running mail I get the error message: >Socket: Protocol not supported >Cannot open /dev/console: Protocol not supported The lines are ambiguous (or wrong), but are from syslog(). Yours seems to be compiled -DEBUG. When making Vmunix, make sure you have: pseudo-device loop in your configuration file before running 'config'. Make sure you have the following lines in the following files: /etc/hosts: 127.1 <your-host-name> localhost /etc/networks: loopback 127 software loopback net (without preceding STANDOUT tab, of course.) You may also want to re-compile the syslib and then sendmail, in /usr/src/usr.lib/sendmail/{lib,src}. -- Joe Yao hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP} jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)