help with isc 3.2

[Phil Eschallier]

hello,

i am looking for a few, hopefully simple, answers to some question about
the isc 3.2 (2.1) package.

i recently purchased isc workstation developer (2 user) package ... i
installed it on my machine and came up with few problems.  like i said,
this is isc's workstation developer with 10 or so ssu disks (including
the security fixes).  here are my questions:

	1. when trying to configure a serial port for bi-directional
	   modem usage, i kept getting "INIT respawning too rapidly".
	   yet the exact same config works under ms-dos and xenix --
	   am i doing something wrong??  if i install fas 2.08, will
	   the problem be solved??  i was able to use the lines to
	   call out on but incoming calls just didn't want to work.

	2. can nfs be run on a machine without a network card??  i installed
	   nfs because i wanted to have vp/ix and one of the screens says
	   that nfs much be installed before vp/ix (and lord knows i don't
	   want to have to re-install all those disk!) ... but no matter
	   what i did, when i went to run level 3, lockd would say that
	   lgnp1 was an unknown host (lgnp1 is the nodename here).  i tracked
	   this to statd but didn't know how to fix it.  is this a config-
	   uration error or can nfs not exist with out a network card??

	3. is isc's sendmail worth anything??  when invoked it would just
	   hang, even when trying use the test mode (sendmail -bt) ...
	   i plan to replace the sendmail with sendmail 5.65b+IDA but i'd
	   like to be able to get the machine up and running for a few
	   days and not be under the gun to replace software.  i am sure
	   a number of folks out there will say "just get smail 3.1" but
	   i would like to use sendmail -- just my preference.

i have RTFM'ed and i am very familiar with unix -- the problem is that i
cannot afford to have the system down for any extend amount of time ... i
could have probably worked out some of this questions if i had time to play
(or should i say experiment).  one note, i am NOT a tcp/ip or nfs guru,
please try to take that into account if you are kind enough to try to help
me out!!

e-mail prefered.

many thanx in advance!!

phil

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