[425] in NetBSD-Development
Re: NETBSD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jan 18 10:36:51 1995
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 10:36:24 -0500
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: yoav@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[424] in NetBSD-Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> > b) kerberos is REALLY slow. There is about a fifteen second delay
> I have the same problem on my machine, but not on granola. I don't
> know what the problem is. My guess is that something is causing name
> resolution to be very slow.
The right way to debug this (well, to clarify the symptoms) is to
use tcpdump. Eg:
tcpdump -s 1024 host myhost &
kinit me
[...]
>
> An awful lot of things broke when I reinstalled a number of
> Athena packages because of people modifying installed files.
> This included the path in the system-wide cshrc file and the
> shell run by the default xsession script. I would say that
> this breakage reflects a bigger problem with the management
> of this port than the problems jhawk pointed out with
> building various packages in /afs/sipb/project/sipb-athena.
I would suggest that it's a good idea to diff things against the existing
versions on granola before reinstalling them. This may be inconvenient,
but is probably worth it.
Some of these have been working copies installed on granola that
weren't supposed to leak out. Part of this may have been accidental
installation in /usr/athena/etc/ (well, not quite accidental...;
perhaps temporary sloppiness).
> * pmail is in the sipb locker, not in /afs/sipb/project/sipb-
> athena, so jhawk was a bit confused about his flame.
> Also, I think Yoav was referring to the original person who
> built pmail, not someone who rebuilt it. I have modified
> the source tree for popmail to have the right paths for
> NetBSD, so that things should hopefully work in the future.
My flame, while perhaps confused, still made a point: No one should
have to _remember_ that pmail has been changed. If there was a modification
to be made, and it was not made, either in /afs/sipb/project/sipb-athena
or in /afs/sipb/project/sipb/src, or wherever, then this is not the fault
of the person who built it...
---jhawk
