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Status of quiche
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (ghudson@MIT.EDU)
Sun Dec 12 20:02:36 1993
From: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 93 20:02:13 EST
To: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Okay, I've solved or found explanations for some of the problems:
You can't log in as root remotely using telnet because it explicitly
checks for that. (My blathering about shadow passwords was entirely
misguided.) Probably best. You can use rlogin for that now.
The rlogin failure was because the inetd.conf entry was pointing to
/usr/kerberos instead of /usr/athena. I fixed it, and remote login
now works fine.
'pfrom' seems to work if you log in as the user you want to get mail
from. 'from' works fine, but only if AFS is mounted, because it has
to stat /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/from. Don't ask me why.
I built vmlinuz.quiche (a kernel with only what we need for quiche)
and installed it.
X works. The problem was that Sal needs to type 'startx', not me. (I
suspect that what was really needed was vmlinux.quiche and a hard
reboot, or maybe to have the mouse plugged in better and a hard
reboot.)
(We were thinking of throwing out Debian and trying Slackware because
X didn't work, but we'll stay with Debian for now.)
strings didn't work (it printed a usage message, regardless of
arguments). Sal rm'd it and installed it from the source tree; it
works now.
Mounting ni:/afs on startup still fails.
We have a tape backup of /usr/src/athena now. We now know that the
tape drive is pretty fast, and a tape holds at least 70MB. (I think
that means they're 140MB tapes, based on what people tell me.) (I
still need to write something up to extract non-binary files from a
source tree, since I suspect we only have about 10-20MB of source in
there.)
We decided that, since we don't have an /mit/x11 for Linux and don't
really want to, /usr/athena/include/X11 and /usr/athena/lib/X11 will
be symlinks to /usr/include/X11 and /usr/lib/X11, respectively.
For future reference, /usr/src/athena/boot-net will contain a copy of
vmlinuz.complete (since it's needed for the floppy), so if you're ever
left without a workable kernel, you should be able to find one there.
/tmp wasn't world-writable (-sigh-), so non-root users couldn't make
tickets or temporary directories. Found and fixed by Sal.
show_console didn't install as setuid.
I'm leaving for dinner now. Xlogin works, apparently. Nobody destroy
the drive until Sal does a backup. (I'm doing another tape backup
right now, actually, but still, nobody destroy the drive.)
--GBH
