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From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.appletalk
Subject: Re: Rutgers CAP/ethertalk configuration
Message-ID: <4837@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 90 09:05:01 GMT
References: <4836@spdcc.SPDCC.COM>
Reply-To: dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <4836@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com (Steve Dyer) writes:
>I manually start aarpd and atis.  Atistest times out and asks if
>atis is running.  Atlook just returns after looking for =:=@*.
>Aufs reports that SrvrRegister fails.

After digging around in the guts of the code, it seems that nis_node and
nis_net are not getting initialized when ethertalk support using
/etc/cap.ether.shared is used.  When it isn't used, nis_node and nis_net
are initialized from this_node and this_net.  Patching this seemed to get
me past this hurdle (i.e. I could run lwsrv.)

This seems like a rather egregious bug that anyone who tried to bring
up CAP/ethertalk would hit immediately.

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
dyer@arktouros.mit.edu, dyer@hstbme.mit.edu