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- From: mdw@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Matt Welsh)
- Subject: Re: Help settingup tcp/ip
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.053313.27522@tc.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 05:33:13 GMT
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- In article <BzAB9J.52K@utdallas.edu> ramesh@utdallas.edu (R. Ramesh) writes:
- >1) Do I need to set up a name server to do loopback stuff.
-
- No. If you don't have a nameserver or aren't running named, the
- libraries will look in /etc/hosts (or /usr/etc/inet/hosts).
-
- >2) While starting, named complains about not being able to get to the root
- > server. Can I make my named an independent server?
-
- I don't know why you'd want to... but I suppose you can. If this is
- just an individual machine you don't need to worry about named.
-
- >3) inetd does not seem to start rshd. why? (unless it happens very fast that
- > my "ps -a|grep rshd" is unable to detect it.)
-
- Is rshd in /usr/etc/inet/inetd.conf?
-
- >4) "rsh lata ls" just sits for a while and quits. why?
-
- Probably because inetd isn't starting rshd. :)
-
- mdw
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