From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ron minnich To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: [9fans] ndb/local Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 11:32:28 -0600 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9494e4c8-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 OK, it's probably just me, but this ndb/local stuff is getting on my nerves. I have a new T21 just loaded from the CDROM. I have no dhcp. I want to get the hostname set to P9. I want to set it from local files only. Hints from the wiki imply that if you have a sys= entry with the ether address set, the various bits of software will Do The Right Thing for setting up the network, but that is not working for me. Here is ndb/local after the database= section: ipnet=ccstar ip=10.128.0.0 ipmask=255.255.0.0 ipsubmask=255.255.0.0 dnsdomain=ccstar.lanl.gov ipgw=10.128.10.241 dns=10.128.10.241 auth=p9 fs=p9 dom=p9 authdom=p9 ip=10.128.207.112 sys=p9 ether=0010a48975c5 dom=p9 authdom=p9 At the head of /rc/bin/termrc I have: sysname=p9 /dev/sysname is set to p9 ip/ipconfig would, I thought, take the sysname and set all the ipifc stuff up correctly. No dice. So I did it by hand in termrc: ip/ipconfig -g 10.0.10.241 10.128.207.112 255.255.0.0 but /net/ipifc/0 still has an empty address. OK, what dumb thing am I doing here? Multiple dumb things, probably. Is there a way to get reasonable debugging done when I screw up ndb/local? thanks ron