bootparamd

[Scott R. Presnell]

jit at SLIC.CELLBIO.DUKE.EDU (Jit Keong Tan) writes:


>Hi, is it ok to disable bootparamd ?  Somebody told me that their
>Sun diskless workstation is booting off my SGI :-)
>I am not using any diskless workstation.

We've seen that problem too.

>Well, how do I disable the bootparam ?  Just comment the bootparam in
>inetd.conf, or anything else in the /etc/services ?

1) Comment out the line inetd.conf
2) 'HUP the inetd process ("/etc/killall -v -HUP inetd")

The file /etc/services does not in and of itself provide an active
"service," only the mapping of ports to names (as used by
getservby{name,port}()).

On sgi.com there is a bootparam in ~ftp/sgi/src that, I think, fixes this
bug.  But don't quote me, there isn't any documentation there about what it
does.  
	
	- Scott
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