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Re: expect scripts



On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 02:23:36PM -0600, Howard Jow wrote:
> okay, I just found out it's not really hanging, but it just takes about
> five minutes to continue processing.  Here's the errors I see once or
> twice during the upgrade from 2.1 to 2.2:
> 
> *** lynx.cfg (Y/I/N/O/D/Z) [default=N] ? N
> Use of uninitialized value at (eval 6) line 16, <TERMCAP> chunk 12881.
> Use of uninitialized value at (eval 7) line 16, <TERMCAP> chunk 12881.
> 
> My senior admin believes termcaps are on their way out and only exist due
> to compatibility issues with old *nixes.  Any opinions would be nice,
> thanks.

What was the original problem?  You appear to have trimmed your post to
exclude some useful information.

Typically, timeouts on the order of five minutes or so indicate a
reverse DNS lookup failure, particularly with any network-related
service.  Have you confirmed your DNS configuration?

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