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- Here is a list of *fixed* bugs. They should be gone with this release.
- Please email me, if you think they still exist.
-
- * I have fixed "lprm". Please test, if it really works!!
-
- * "telnet" always stripps of the highest bit. It should be 8-bit...
- Just try "telnet localhost". This bug is fixed as of version 0.03.
-
- * This bug should be fixed with the newest alpha kernel. The problem might
- have been, that the broadcast flag wasn't set for the loopback device.
-
- "rusers" segmentation faults, if invoked without any arguments (host names).
- (broadcast to all hosts on the local network)
- rusers with a list of hostnames works fine.)
-
- * See above, this bug should also be fixed with the newest alpha kernel.
- rpc.rusersd and rpc.rwalld cannot be run from inetd, but must be started
- from the /etc/rc* scripts as constantly running daemons.
- Inetd will start up dozen of rpc.rusersd processes and eventually terminates
- them, saying "rusersd/rpc/udp server failing (looping), service terminated".
-
- * rpc.rwalld prints two messages instead of one. (fixed??)
-
- * ftp to a slow site and do "ls -ltr" a lot of times. ftp will get stuck and
- there will be a "CLOSE" connection, that will not vanish for days.
- (I am not sure, if this is still true for newer kernels.)
-
- * "rsh" is known to have a problem: A stopped rsh command will block the
- port, so that other rsh commands will hang. Alan Cox has promised to fix
- the kernel for this. This should be gone with a very new kernel. (??)
-
- * I use rpcgen from rpc-0.9. I should upgrade to the newer available version.
- But I have heard rumors, that they don't work ok for all source code.
- If newer versions work ok, I should delete source code for rpcgen and
- rpcinfo from my source collection.
- I couldn't find newer versions with archie. Where are they?
-
- * I have had some problems with talk. Talk is unable to stamp is own
- packets with the correct src-IP address, and uses thw system wide(?)
- adress. On my machine (which is locally in an ethernet-net, nothing
- goes wrong, because the system-wide address gets routed through the
- eth device and i'm able to talk to all the systems there. *HOWEVER*
- when talking to a host through a SLIP connection, talk still uses the
- ethernet address, and the talk on the other side (which sents its packets
- to that address, won't get a repsonse because i'm only known with the SLIP
- address to the outside world.) (Arrg, hopes this clarifies a little, i
- seem to be raving on)
-
- So, i patched talk by looking which outgoing device will be used
- for the destination address. It's not one of the best patches ever
- (hunting through /proc/net/route) but it works.
-
- (PS. I understood talk.FvK should be along thse lines, but it simply
- didn't seem to work for me)
-
- BTW: I'm posting it here, but i'm not sure i should :)
- If not, please point me (politly) in the correct direction?
-
- Met vriendelijke groet,
- Pauline Middelink middelin@calvin.iaf.nl
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