Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu!srp From: srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: bootparamd Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 21:17:33 GMT References: <9103271731.AA17477@slic.cellbio.duke.edu> Sender: daemon@cgl.ucsf.edu Lines: 29 jit@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 -- Scott Presnell +1 (415) 476-9890 Pharm. Chem., S-926 Internet: srp@cgl.ucsf.edu University of California UUCP: ...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!srp San Francisco, CA. 94143-0446 Bitnet: srp@ucsfcgl.bitnet