krokumg@argus.math.orst.edu (Galen R. Krokum) (11/06/89)
I have tried unsuccessfully to install MH 6.6 on an IBM RT running AOS using several different combinations of options. I either get a core dump when I try to send mail from the whatnow program or some sort of socket error a minute or two after I try to send the mail depending on what configuration I use. I have had to use the BIND option because the RT does not seem to have the gethostent call in it's C library. Our RT is not running named or bind. Has anyone successfully installed MH 6.6 on an RT running AOS? If you have, please mail me the MH configuration file you used or the options you are using. Thanks, --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Galen R. Krokum Internet: krokumg@cs.orst.edu Computer Science Department UUCP: tektronix!orstcs!krokumg Oregon State University UUCP: hplabs!hp-pcd!krokumg Corvallis, OR 97331 Phone: (503) 737-3273 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
brunner@bullhead.uucp (11/17/89)
In article <13584@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> krokumg@argus.math.orst.edu (Galen R. Krokum) writes: > >I have tried unsuccessfully to install MH 6.6 on an IBM RT running AOS using >several different combinations of options. I either get a core dump when I >try to send mail from the whatnow program or some sort of socket error a minute >or two after I try to send the mail depending on what configuration I use. > >I have had to use the BIND option because the RT does not seem to have the >gethostent call in it's C library. Our RT is not running named or bind. > >Has anyone successfully installed MH 6.6 on an RT running AOS? If you have, >please mail me the MH configuration file you used or the options you are using. >Thanks, I installed 6.6 on bullhead in August, having installed 6.5 a week or two after I started working on 4.3 here (April/May). It runs without problem. /etc/named is bind (Berkeley Internet Name Daemon), the signifigance of the BIND configuration option is actually the release level of the network sources and binarys, not whether the host is using one name lookup scheme or another (static host tables or hierarchical, distributed lookup). The configuration file I used is (cat -n): 1 bin /usr/new/mh 2 bboards off 3 etc /usr/new/lib/mh 4 mail /usr/spool/mail 5 manuals new 6 mts sendmail/smtp 7 options BSD42 BERK TTYD DUMB 8 options MHE NETWORK BIND RPATHS 9 options SBACKUP='"\\043"' 10 pop off 11 ldoptions -ns -O The gethostbyaddr.c gethostbyname.c and gethostent.c routines were all droped from the release when the 4.2 sources were replaced with the 4.3 sources. Looking back over the rlogs, the last time these routines were included in the libc/net sources was the August 1986 release - the 4.3bsd code came in at revision level 8.0 - the current level is 12.0 (December 1988 release). In LocalName() in zotnet/mts/mts.c is an example of the BIND configuration option, as well as a host of others - which is why mh runs on such a large set of network releases, including IBM's 4.3. As you can see, just about everything is covered. 316 char *LocalName () { 317 #ifdef BSD41A 318 char *myname; 319 #endif BSD41A 320 #ifdef BSD42 321 register struct hostent *hp; 322 #endif BSD42 323 #ifdef SYS5 324 struct utsname name; 325 #endif SYS5 326 static char buffer[BUFSIZ] = ""; 327 328 if (buffer[0]) 329 return buffer; 330 331 mts_init ("mts"); 332 if (*localname) 333 return strcpy (buffer, localname); 334 335 #ifdef locname 336 (void) strcpy (buffer, locname); 337 #else not locname 338 #ifdef NETWORK 339 #ifdef BSD41A 340 myname = "myname"; 341 if (rhost (&myname) == -1) 342 (void) gethostname (buffer, sizeof buffer); 343 else { 344 (void) strcpy (buffer, myname); 345 free (myname); 346 } 347 #endif BSD41A 348 #ifdef BSD42 349 (void) gethostname (buffer, sizeof buffer); 350 #ifndef BIND 351 sethostent (1); 352 #endif 353 if (hp = gethostbyname (buffer)) 354 (void) strcpy (buffer, hp -> h_name); 355 #endif BSD42 356 #else not NETWORK 357 #ifndef SYS5 358 (void) strcpy (buffer, SystemName ()); 359 #else SYS5 360 (void) uname (&name); 361 (void) strcpy (buffer, name.nodename); 362 #endif SYS5 363 #endif not NETWORK 364 #endif not locname 365 366 return buffer; 367 } P.S. Please call the 4.3 port to the 615[0-2] systems "IBM/4.3", or "ACIS" if you must, but not "AOS" -- that name belongs to someone else. P.P.S. I tip my hat to the original RAND crew (Borden, Gaines and Shapiro) and the UCI crew (Rose and Romine). The code and structure are an inspiration. Eric Brunner, Consultant, IBM AWD Palo Alto (415) 855-4486 inet: brunner@monet.berkeley.edu uucp: uunet!ibmsupt!brunner