phil@lgnp1.ls.com (Phil Eschallier) (06/15/91)
hello,
i am looking for a few, hopefully simple, answers to some question about
the isc 3.2 (2.1) package.
i recently purchased isc workstation developer (2 user) package ... i
installed it on my machine and came up with few problems. like i said,
this is isc's workstation developer with 10 or so ssu disks (including
the security fixes). here are my questions:
1. when trying to configure a serial port for bi-directional
modem usage, i kept getting "INIT respawning too rapidly".
yet the exact same config works under ms-dos and xenix --
am i doing something wrong?? if i install fas 2.08, will
the problem be solved?? i was able to use the lines to
call out on but incoming calls just didn't want to work.
2. can nfs be run on a machine without a network card?? i installed
nfs because i wanted to have vp/ix and one of the screens says
that nfs much be installed before vp/ix (and lord knows i don't
want to have to re-install all those disk!) ... but no matter
what i did, when i went to run level 3, lockd would say that
lgnp1 was an unknown host (lgnp1 is the nodename here). i tracked
this to statd but didn't know how to fix it. is this a config-
uration error or can nfs not exist with out a network card??
3. is isc's sendmail worth anything?? when invoked it would just
hang, even when trying use the test mode (sendmail -bt) ...
i plan to replace the sendmail with sendmail 5.65b+IDA but i'd
like to be able to get the machine up and running for a few
days and not be under the gun to replace software. i am sure
a number of folks out there will say "just get smail 3.1" but
i would like to use sendmail -- just my preference.
i have RTFM'ed and i am very familiar with unix -- the problem is that i
cannot afford to have the system down for any extend amount of time ... i
could have probably worked out some of this questions if i had time to play
(or should i say experiment). one note, i am NOT a tcp/ip or nfs guru,
please try to take that into account if you are kind enough to try to help
me out!!
e-mail prefered.
many thanx in advance!!
phil
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phil@lgnp1.ls.com (Phil Eschallier) writes: >i am looking for a few, hopefully simple, answers to some question about >the isc 3.2 (2.1) package. You should read the FAQ posting for this group. If you don't have a copy lying around, let me know and I willl send you one. > 1. when trying to configure a serial port for bi-directional > modem usage, i kept getting "INIT respawning too rapidly". Answered in the FAQ. > 3. is isc's sendmail worth anything?? when invoked it would just > hang, even when trying use the test mode (sendmail -bt) ... > i plan to replace the sendmail with sendmail 5.65b+IDA but i'd > like to be able to get the machine up and running for a few > days and not be under the gun to replace software. i am sure > a number of folks out there will say "just get smail 3.1" but > i would like to use sendmail -- just my preference. we use sendmail with no problems on our system. The only things we did to get it working (if I remember correctly - we did this 2 years ago) was some minor changes to the sendmail.cf file and (this is the tricky part) copy /usr/lib/sendmail to /bin/rmail (a link would have sufficed, but /usr is a different filesystem). Here is the diffs to our sendmail.cf. Note that I did not spend much time on this other than to get it working, so there may be some changes that were unnecessary, or vice-versa. One thing that I know that doesn't work is that if we send email to user@host it doesn't get forwarded to uunet for resolution. One day I may get time to play with it. *** /usr/lib/sendmail.cf.or Fri Aug 4 16:38:39 1989 --- /usr/lib/sendmail.cf Wed Dec 12 11:23:39 1990 *************** *** 31,37 **** # it will will be turned into $D. # HOSTNAME needs to be modified for each site (if there is no ethernet). ! Dwunix DDUUCP CDLOCAL local uucp --- 31,37 ---- # it will will be turned into $D. # HOSTNAME needs to be modified for each site (if there is no ethernet). ! Dwvirtech DDUUCP CDLOCAL local uucp *************** *** 57,63 **** # addresses which didn't resolve locally. # R is used as the ethernet relay host, S ! DRrelay # # End Local configuration options --- 57,65 ---- # addresses which didn't resolve locally. # R is used as the ethernet relay host, S ! # DRrelay ! #changed by scum on 12/12/90 ! DRuunet # # End Local configuration options *************** *** 257,264 **** # remove these if you just want general disposition. HINTS. # Designated delivery: ! R$*<@$=U.UUX>$* $#uux$@$2$:$1$3 known uucphost ! R$*<@$=U$+.UUX>$* $#uux$@$2$:$1@$2$4 known uucphost R$*<@$=E$+.ETHER>$* $#ether$@$2$:$1@$2$4 known etherhost R$*<@$+.ETHER>$* $#ether$@$2$:$1@$2$3 etherhost --- 259,266 ---- # remove these if you just want general disposition. HINTS. # Designated delivery: ! R$*<@$=U.UUX>$* $#smail$@$2$:$1$3 known uucphost ! R$*<@$=U$+.UUX>$* $#smail$@$2$:$1@$2$4 known uucphost R$*<@$=E$+.ETHER>$* $#ether$@$2$:$1@$2$4 known etherhost R$*<@$+.ETHER>$* $#ether$@$2$:$1@$2$3 etherhost -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc. uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170
karln@uunet.uu.net (06/15/91)
In article <1991Jun14.223443.9297@lgnp1.ls.com> phil@lgnp1.ls.com (Phil Eschallier) writes: > >hello, > >i am looking for a few, hopefully simple, answers to some question about >the isc 3.2 (2.1) package. > > > 1. when trying to configure a serial port for bi-directional > modem usage, i kept getting "INIT respawning too rapidly". The biggest reason for this is that the echo command register on your modem is on. It should be ATE0, not ATE1. This gets getty all kinds of confused. Perhaps the DCD lines and DTR lines could be checked as well. If you need more help, e-mail me and I'll see what I can do. > am i doing something wrong?? if i install fas 2.08, will > the problem be solved?? i was able to use the lines to > call out on but incoming calls just didn't want to work. FAS will help in a couple of ways not particularly related to this problem. It should be installed as a matter of fact. > > 2. can nfs be run on a machine without a network card?? i installed > nfs because i wanted to have vp/ix and one of the screens says > that nfs much be installed before vp/ix (and lord knows i don't I do not know a lot about this one. I've got vpix installed with NFS though. I do have tcp/ip installed however .. >i have RTFM'ed and i am very familiar with unix -- the problem is that i >cannot afford to have the system down for any extend amount of time ... i I thought you were just getting it running ... Hope something here helps .. -- *********************************************************************** | Karl Nicholas | A million monkeys in a million years | | karln!karln@uunet.uu.net | did write Shakespear, we evolved ... | ***********************************************************************
kentkar@shambala.uucp (Kent Karrer) (06/17/91)
In article <1991Jun14.223443.9297@lgnp1.ls.com> phil@lgnp1.ls.com (Phil Eschallier) writes: >i am looking for a few, hopefully simple, answers to some question about >the isc 3.2 (2.1) package. > >i recently purchased isc workstation developer (2 user) package ... i >installed it on my machine and came up with few problems. like i said, >this is isc's workstation developer with 10 or so ssu disks (including >the security fixes). here are my questions: > > 1. when trying to configure a serial port for bi-directional > modem usage, i kept getting "INIT respawning too rapidly". > yet the exact same config works under ms-dos and xenix -- > am i doing something wrong?? if i install fas 2.08, will > the problem be solved?? i was able to use the lines to > call out on but incoming calls just didn't want to work. I ran into the same problem the first time I installed my ISC software. It's been quite a while but I recall that the manual addressed this problem specifically. I applied the fix that the manual suggested and the problem was cured. > 3. is isc's sendmail worth anything?? when invoked it would just > hang, even when trying use the test mode (sendmail -bt) ... > i plan to replace the sendmail with sendmail 5.65b+IDA but i'd > like to be able to get the machine up and running for a few > days and not be under the gun to replace software. i am sure > a number of folks out there will say "just get smail 3.1" but > i would like to use sendmail -- just my preference. I never could get the sendmail that came with ISC to work correctly. A good friend eventually provided me with a copy of smail and I have been working well since. -- [~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~] [ A GREAT DEAL OF CHAOS IN THE WORLD occurs because people don't appreciate ] [ themselves. -- Chogyam Trungpa ] [ "SHAMBHALA - The Sacred Path of the Warrior" ] [___________________uunet!seaeast.wa.com!shambala!kentkar___________________]