Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!jhunix!barrett From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Problems found in Ultrix 4.0 release Message-ID: <6742@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Date: 30 Oct 90 23:18:15 GMT Organization: The Johns Hopkins University - HCF Lines: 75 We have been running Ultrix 4.0 (Rev 179) on our DECstation 3100's and 5400 for a few months, and I'd like to report the problems we have encountered. I am ready to submit SPR's on all of these, but I want to run them by the Net to see if others have encountered them too. () /usr/bin/Xmfb is not copied by setld onto your disk if you are a DECsystem 5400 fileserver. Not really a bug, but a misfeature in my opinion. setld tries to be "smart" and figure out if you "need" the X server. I needed it. setld thought I didn't. () The "nodev" option is not listed in mount(8nfs) man page, but it is used in the Security Guide for Administrators (Sys Net Management, Vol 1). () rwalld man page refers to /usr/etc/rpc.rwalld, which does not exist. () adduser does not work for BIND/Hesiod; it does not rebuild the Hesiod database. () chsh and chfn do not use BIND/Hesiod. () pmerge() and pxref() man pages do not belong in the RISC distribution, since the programs are not provided. () cxref generates hundreds of errors in some cases: /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h: 474: too much defining /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h: 475: too much defining /usr/include/sys/ioctl.h: 476: too much defining lows.c: 301: too much defining lows.c: 621: no space xcpp failed on lows.c! I have not narrowed down the problem, but it appears that cxref cannot handle #elif. () bindsetup changes the value of the D macro in /usr/lib/sendmail.cf. However, it does NOT restore the original value when removing BIND. This has caused me ENDLESS PAIN. () The man page for mount(8nfs) is truncated just before the "Files" line. A sentence begins "umount command invokes" and just ends. Two lines are commented out in /usr/man/man8/mount.8nfs -- this is the reason for the truncation. I have a report that this problem does not exist in my friend's distribution of 4.0. () mount(8nfs) warns not to invoke nfs_umount directly, but "nfssetup" does exactly that in the default /etc/rc.local. Practice what you preach. :-) () If you use rlogin from a DECstation to a Sun SPARCstation, the rlogin hangs. (Reported to DEC and verified.) () /sys/dist/kits requires the ROOT keyword in your key file, but the manual (Preparing Software For Distribution, page 5-4) claims it is optional. () rwalld has stopped working for us. Shutdown messages are not sent to our NFS-mounted clients. A short program that uses rwalld says "bad file number" when attempting to write to user terminals. Dan //////////////////////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ | Dan Barrett - Systems Administrator, Computer Science Department | | The Johns Hopkins University, 34th and Charles Sts., Baltimore, MD 21218 | | INTERNET: barrett@cs.jhu.edu | | | COMPUSERVE: >internet:barrett@cs.jhu.edu | UUCP: barrett@jhunix.UUCP | \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\/////////////////////////////////////