Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

2007-12-25 7:59:00

My original Post:

>>>>> "James" == James F. Cameron <jc@raven.bu.edu> writes:

James> System: 4.1.2 on Sun4 server with Sun4c clients

James> Problems:

James> A. Domain Service no longer works. I am running NIS and

James> have 'B=-b' uncommented in the yp Makefile. The server

James> is a local machine to BU and /etc/hosts only contains

James> info for local machines. /etc/resolv.conf points to

James> machine which contains all the necessary host

James> information. However, it does not seem to be getting

James> this info dynamically. nslookup works fine.

James> B. X11R4 - xterm -C no longer works. It seems that the

James> console is no longer changing ownership when someone logs

James> in via xdm.

James> C. And certainly many more as I play with the system. What

James> are the necessary patches to install for 4.1.2? Any

James> other points, thoughts, suggestions would be greatly

James> appreciated!!

Current solutions:

A. Use 'ypserv -d > /dev/null' This works but I believe it is rather

slow. I got many different methods of fixing this problem but

there should be one way - one Sun way. What exactly is the proper

method to get DNS running on a NIS server which only contains

local hosts?

B. Using a patched version of xlogin which does the necessary

changes. The one problem with this is that it does not seem to

get the necessary resourdes from ../xdm/Xresources so it says to

contact me (the sys.admin).

C. No one sent a required patch list for 4.1.2.

Thanks to everyone who sent a message including:

macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)

phil@dgbt.doc.ca (Phil Blanchfield)

Paul Bournival <paulb@hyphen.com>

jose.piquer@dcc.uchile.cl (Jo Piquer)

baumann@proton.llumc.edu (Michael Baumann)

steve@wintermute.ucsd.edu

macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)

poul@nilu.no

-- James Cameron (jc@raven.bu.edu) (617) 353-2879

System Manager, Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab. Boston, Mass

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From: macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)

To: jc@raven.bu.edu

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: 09 Nov 1992 08:54:21 -0600 (CST)

>A. Domain Service no longer works.

It works for us (small consolation, but ...) I'd try remaking my NIS tables:

touch /etc/hosts

cd /var/yp

make

(Make sure that netid gets pushed as well.)

>B. X11R4 - xterm -C no longer works. It seems that the

>console is no longer changing ownership when someone logs

>in via xdm.

What we have done here is patched xlogin to do this for the user.

If you wish, I could send this to you via email. However, I would

recommend moving to X11R5, and using xconsole to do your console

monitoring.

Ian.

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Ian MacPhedran, Engineering Computer Centre, University of Saskatchewan.

2B13 Engineering Building, U. of S. Campus, Saskatoon, Sask., CANADA S7N 0W0

macphed@dvinci.USask.CA (306) 966-4832 Ian_MacPhedran@engr.USask.CA

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In-Reply-To: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)

"Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1" (Nov 9, 6:33am)

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From: phil@dgbt.doc.ca (Phil Blanchfield)

To: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 10:41:28 EST

On Nov 9, 6:33am, James F. Cameron wrote:

} Subject: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

> System: 4.1.2 on Sun4 server with Sun4c clients

> Problems:

> A. Domain Service no longer works. I am running NIS and have

> 'B=-b' uncommented in the yp Makefile. The server is a

> local machine to BU and /etc/hosts only contains info for

> local machines. /etc/resolv.conf points to machine which

> contains all the necessary host information. However, it

> does not seem to be getting this info dynamically.

> nslookup works fine.

Under 4.1.1 I had installed the MX version of sendmail by copying

/usr/lib/sendmail.mx to /usr/lib/sendmail. After the "upgrade" I noticed that

the vanilla sendmail had been re-installed. I simply did the copy

(ie cp /usr/lib/sendmail.mx /usr/lib/sendmail) over again. I had no trouble

with DNS besides this.

- --

Phil Blanchfield

The Communications Research Centre 3701 Carling Avenue, Ottawa Ontario CANADA

Internet: phil@dgbt.doc.ca

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From: Paul Bournival <paulb@hyphen.com>

To: jc@raven.bu.edu

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 10:48:23 EST

Hi James!

Problem A: The only thing that rings a bell is that you must now load

the dynamic libraries (shlib). I dont think the installer would do this for

you. right now you have the static libraries, which don't use the DNS.

Hope this helps!

- -paulb

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From: jose.piquer@dcc.uchile.cl (Jo Piquer)

To: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 14:01:43 CDT

In article <9211091133.AA05426@raven.bu.edu>, you write:

>Problems:

> A. Domain Service no longer works. I am running NIS and have

> 'B=-b' uncommented in the yp Makefile. The server is a

> local machine to BU and /etc/hosts only contains info for

> local machines. /etc/resolv.conf points to machine which

> contains all the necessary host information. However, it

> does not seem to be getting this info dynamically.

> nslookup works fine.

I suggest you to install the resolv+ package in your libc, it

permits to configure your name lookups. We are running it on top of

4.1.1 and 4.1.2 machines on all our network (approx 30 suns). It's

very easy to install on sun machines, just follow the intructions carefully.

The libc by Sun does not query the nameserver by default.

anonymous ftp: resolv+-2.0.tar.Z

(/pub/misc, ferkel.ucsb.edu)

There is a 2.1 version but there is a bug in it, it will be corrected

and installed one day on ftp.uu.net.

Jose' Piquer (jpiquer@dcc.uchile.cl)

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From: baumann@proton.llumc.edu (Michael Baumann)

To: jc@raven.bu.edu

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: Mon, 9 Nov 92 10:01:23 PST

/etc/pccd -e /usr/lib/pcc_keys -l /usr/adm/pcclm.log -m .25m 2>

>System: 4.1.2 on Sun4 server with Sun4c clients

>Problems:

> A. Domain Service no longer works. I am running NIS and have

> 'B=-b' uncommented in the yp Makefile. The server is a

> local machine to BU and /etc/hosts only contains info for

> local machines. /etc/resolv.conf points to machine which

> contains all the necessary host information. However, it

> does not seem to be getting this info dynamically.

> nslookup works fine.

change the startup of your ypserv to be ypserv -d. This will force the

server to do DNS lookups when the NIS lookup fails.

> B. X11R4 - xterm -C no longer works. It seems that the

> console is no longer changing ownership when someone logs

> in via xdm.

This is because sun finally fixed the security hole associated with that

ioctl. xdm owns the console, and will not allow another process to steal it.

Michael Baumann

Radiation Research Lab |Internet: baumann@proton.llumc.edu

Loma Linda Universtiy Medical Center | UUCP: ...ucrmath!proton!baumann

Loma Linda, California. (714)824-4077|

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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 09 Nov 92 06:33:19 EST."

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From: steve@wintermute.ucsd.edu

To: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: Mon, 09 Nov 92 11:07:46 -0800

well, for the DNS part of your question you need to get a new copy

of the resolver library.

I believe there is one ucsd.edu (128.54.16.1) in the

/incoming/libc.so.1.7.1. This file goes in /usr/lib.

after copying it there type ldconfig as root and try out DNS.

I haven't tested the library yet, but it did come from sun.

Steve Misrack

steve@ucsd.edu

UCSD Network Operations

(619) 534-7485 voice

(619) 534-1746 fax

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To: macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian MacPhedran <macphed@dvinci.usask.ca> writes:

[..]

>B. X11R4 - xterm -C no longer works. It seems that the console is

>no longer changing ownership when someone logs in via xdm.

Ian> What we have done here is patched xlogin to do this for the

Ian> user. If you wish, I could send this to you via email.

Ian> However, I would recommend moving to X11R5, and using xconsole

Ian> to do your console monitoring.

Ian> Ian.

Since at this time we cannot install R5 I would greatly appreciate it

if you could send or provide via anonymous ftp the patched version of

xlogin.

Thank you for your time!

James

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From: macphed@dvinci.usask.ca (Ian MacPhedran)

To: jc@raven.bu.edu

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: 09 Nov 1992 17:41:47 -0600 (CST)

>>B. X11R4 - xterm -C no longer works. It seems that the console is

>>no longer changing ownership when someone logs in via xdm.

> Ian> What we have done here is patched xlogin to do this for the

> Ian> user. If you wish, I could send this to you via email.

> Ian> However, I would recommend moving to X11R5, and using xconsole

> Ian> to do your console monitoring.

> Ian> Ian.

>Since at this time we cannot install R5 I would greatly appreciate it

>if you could send or provide via anonymous ftp the patched version of

>xlogin.

>Thank you for your time!

>James

Okay, try ftping to imhotep.usask.ca, in the directory pub/X, file

xlogin.tar.Z. While I haven't documented it, there are two compilation

flags to set:

CONSOLE (already done in the Imakefile)

CONSOLEDEV (defaults to /dev/console - should be no problem if

you don't define it.)

Ian.

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From: poul@nilu.no

To: jc@raven.bu.edu

Subject: Re: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

Date: Tue, 10 Nov 92 08:54:37 +0100

Use the Xstartup/Xrteset files to chown/chmod /dev/console

hilsen/regards

Poul.