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Subject: Re: Failing tsapd
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Date: 7 May 91 15:28:36 GMT
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"Ernest H. Hayden" wrote:
| Hans: I don't know if this helps a lot but I noticed that when I
| started the tsapd from an interactive shell as follows,
| /usr/etc/isode/tsapd > & /dev/null, that I could run ./make test
| multiple times without it failing.  However, when I tried to run the
| test against a tsapd that I had started from my rc.local file (see
| below) it also failed just as you described.

| I am running the simplest of environments, tsapd was running on the
| same machine from which I executed the test.  I am running SunOS
| 4.1.1 Rev B on a SPARCStation 1.
  ^^^^^                                                      ^^^^^

The culprit!  The semantics of rc processing have changed (as you
surmise) enough to break many things which used to work.  This is a
BUG, but don't expect anyone to fix it.  Change your rc script (see below)

| I suspect that it has something to do with the change Sun made to
| the rc scripts when we went from 4.0.3 to 4.1.  We did this to
| satisfy POSIX.1 was related to the notion of a controlling terminal
| requirement which was not satisfied in earlier releases.  I don't
| have a definitive answer yet but you have certainly aroused my
| curiosity!  If you come up with an answer to this please let the
| alias know!

#  ISODE tsap Daemon
#
if [ -f /usr/etc/isode/tsapd ]; then
        /usr/etc/isode/tsapd >/dev/null 2>&1; (echo -n ' tsapd') > /dev/console
fi
#
#  ISODE QUIPU Daemon(s)
#
if [ -f /usr/etc/isode/ros.quipu ]; then
      (cd /usr/etc/isode/quipu-db; /usr/etc/isode/ros.quipu >/dev/null 2>&1) 
      (echo -n ' quipu') > /dev/console
fi