[2346] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Feeling brave? Log into snork.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Wed Dec 30 22:33:14 1998
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:33:07 -0500
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[5540] in SIPB_Staff_Archive"
>Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:36:44 -0500
>From: Salvatore Valente <svalente@MIT.EDU>
...
>Quick Summary: I'd like some people to try to log into snork in Linux
>mode, and send email to linux-dev if anything doesn't work.
The "help" command appears somewhat unhelpful to the naive user:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ help
attachandrun: couldn't find a binary directory in /mit/help
Typing "olc" and then "answers" gives me a list of 30 topics, but
typing "olc_answers" does not give a similar list:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ olc_answers
On-Line Consulting Browser
/mit/olc-stock
1* OLC Stock Answers
** End of Index **
There appears to be a missing symlink under /afs/athena/system such
that tellme does not work:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ tellme root
tellme: Command not found.
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ echo $PATH
/usr/athena/bin:/bin/athena:/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin/X11:.:/usr/X11R6/bin
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ ls -ld /usr/athena/bin/tellme
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 68 Dec 30 20:41 /usr/athena/bin/tellme -> /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/tellme/arch/i386_linux3/bin/tellme
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ ls -l /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/tellme/arch/i386_linux3/bin/tellme
ls: /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/tellme/arch/i386_linux3/bin/tellme: No such file or directory
The moira program fails with an error message:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ moira
Error opening terminal: xterm.
The fxping program still gives a segmentation fault (see [0133] and
[0134] in sipb-athena-bugs):
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ fxping
Segmentation fault
There is a line for auth in /etc/inetd.conf; however, the
corresponding identd binary does not exist:
auth stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/in.identd in.identd -l -e -o
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ ls -l /usr/sbin/in.identd
ls: /usr/sbin/in.identd: No such file or directory
(Perhaps it would be best to comment out the line in inetd.conf, since
/etc/inetd.conf is already being modified by the Athena installation.)
Running the "last" program displays entries with the first field set
to "rlogin". It's not clear to me that these should be present, in
that no one logged in with the username "rlogin":
rlogin ttyp2 Wed Dec 30 21:49 - 21:49 (00:00)
Some of the syntax in the MakeTeXPK script appears to not work with
bash:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ MakeTeXPK
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
/usr/athena/bin/MakeTeXPK: test: =: unary operator expected
I don't know the mode for
Have your system admin update MakeTeXPK
Running "pmtg" fails with an "Unknown" error message:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ pmtg eve
Unknown code PAY 127
Running "man hostinfo" gives me a "SEE ALSO" field listing
"resolver(3)"; however:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ man 3 resolver
No entry for resolver in section 3 of the manual
There are some potentially out-of-date rpm packages installed:
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.2.3-25
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ rpm -q kernel
kernel-2.0.36-1
[mhpower@snorklewacker]$ rpm -q pam
pam-0.64-3
Newer versions (which, admittedly, may or may not work better) are
available from ftp://updates.redhat.com/5.2/i386/
Matt
