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Re: please test -- gnu-19991015.tar.gz



On Sun, Oct 17, 1999 at 02:52:42PM -0400, John Tobey wrote:
> Hey, keep your hat on.  :)  I don't think it's missing, maybe it just
> needs a postinst or something after settrans /servers/socket/2.

Well, the inetutils postinst should be executed after the settrans.

If reinstallation helped, I wonder if a reboot might help, too.

> Also, I remember having to struggle to unset the original translator.
> Is this line in native-install really needed:
> 
>     /bin/settrans -c /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=192.168.0.1
> 
> ?

Not really, but anyway it is wrong. I should only set up the local network in the script.
So I will replace it with:

settrans -c /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet

> I think I was getting "Device or resource busy" running
> 
>     settrans /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 --address=10.0.0.1 --netmask=255.255.255.0
> 
> or  settrans /servers/socket/2
> 
> though I may have done some installation steps out of order.

The active translator couldn't be killed. Try

settrans -fg /servers/socket/2 ...

Thanks,
Marcus

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