Ultrix Problems...
Gregg Thompson
greggt at ncoast.UUCP
Wed Apr 27 11:14:13 AEST 1988
I am a student assistant at the University of Akron. We are
currently running Ultrix 2.0 on our Vax. He have had problems but I
wish to address the two most important problems we have right now.
1. DEC has yet to solve our "syslog" problem. It seems that at random
times syslog decides to run off into an endless loop and not record
anything in /usr/spool/mqueue/syslog. It must be over a year now
that we have had this problem. DEC STILL hasn't been able to solve
the problem! Infact they even told us that they couldn't work on
it because our "core filesystem" had been changed (all that
happened was that somehow some of the ownerships got changed from
root to daemon). Even after we got everything back to normal they
sent us a syslog with the debugging option. This has been running
for several months now and we still have the problem. We have the
new upgrades but our policy is that we won't change the system
until the semester is over (we are hoping 2.2 might solve the
problem). But in the meantime DEC sent us another "patch", we are
to replace almost ALL of our binaries on our system, once again due
to policy we can not "replace" our whole system like this until
semester is over.
So if ANY one has ANY suggestions or knows how to go about and get
this run-away syslog problem solved PLEASE let me know, it appears
DEC can't help us.
2. Our other problem (small) is setting up Internet on our system. We
have purchased and installed (DEC installed) just recently a
Proteon card and gateway. We did install their software driver for
their card. The problem we are having is that it seems every
morning we have to "restart" the gateway in order for the gateway
to recognize the network (now I understand this is probably the
gateway that is having the problem), but once the network is
recognized there are some sites that we cannot telnet properly to.
Ping says there up too. Related to all this is the high number of
"error-packets". We are having other problems relating to this
too...
So if anyone is running Ultrix with a Proteon card and gateway
PLEASE let me know!
(the problems were having with internet could also be because of
the lack of documentation of the rc.local file relating to the
ifconfig command and the route add command)
Gregg Thompson
U of A 216-375-7183
mandrill!ncoast!greggt
mandrill!greggt at akronvax
P.S. BTW we are using a temporary id from another university until we get
our own internet id, so if you can't find akronvax on a host list thats
why.
128.146.205.4 akronvax
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