rocks@nmsu.edu (Dave Rocks) (11/10/90)
I just corrected a long standing error on my Next system that I had not seen discussed anywhere else. When I boot my system, I get a message "syslogd: unknown service syslog/udp". I didn't know its cause and didn't work very hard at correcting it. It has stayed at the bottom of the list, but today I finally spent some time to figure it out. The Next documentation on Yellow Pages Installation and Administration says that /etc/services is no longer referenced after netinfo and YP are running and that you can safely delete the file if you are running as a YP client on a mixed network. I renamed my /etc/services file rather than deleting it and moved happily on. But syslogd no langer ran. I didn't connect the two events until today. What the documentation fails to tell you is that the RC script tries to start syslogd before either netinfo or YP. Since I didn't have a /etc/services file and neither netinfo or YP is running at the time, the start fails. Simple right? If I was a unix guru, I would have figured it out right away. Who says we don't need administrative frontends to unix. A keyboard and 2 fingers are all thats needed. Dave Rocks New Mexico State University rocks@nmsu.edu