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From: [e-mail] (James F. Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SUMMARY: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 11 Nov 92 11:39:08 GMT
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Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????'
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My original Post:

>>>>> "James" == James F. Cameron <[e-mail]> 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:

[e-mail] (Ian MacPhedran)
[e-mail] (Phil Blanchfield)
Paul Bournival <[e-mail]>
[e-mail] (Jo Piquer)
[e-mail] (Michael Baumann)
[e-mail]
[e-mail] (Ian MacPhedran)
[e-mail]




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From: [e-mail] (Ian MacPhedran)
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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
[e-mail]     [phone]      [e-mail]

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From: [e-mail] (Phil Blanchfield)
To: [e-mail] (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: [e-mail]

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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: [e-mail] (Jo Piquer)
To: [e-mail] (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 <[e-mail]>, 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 ([e-mail])

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From: [e-mail] (Michael Baumann)
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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: [e-mail]
Loma Linda Universtiy Medical Center |        UUCP: ...ucrmath!proton!baumann
Loma Linda, California. [phone]|

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To: [e-mail] (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
    [e-mail]
    UCSD Network Operations
    [phone] voice
    [phone] fax

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Subject: Re:  Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1

>>>>> "Ian" == Ian MacPhedran <[e-mail]> 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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>>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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B

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


                                 hilsen/regards

                                     Poul.



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