Re: Sun4 as XTerminal for Linux

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From: Charles M. Dude
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 00:00

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Florian Hacker wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm looking for people who use their Sun as an diskless XTerminal for
> Linux. Currently I'm using the SLXT 0.5c package on a Sparc4 and
> Linux 2.2.10.
> 
> One problem for which I'd appreciate any hints is, that the nfsd on
> the server constantly complains the following:
> 
> Jan  3 16:42:34 romeo nfsd[193]: Unable to setfsuid -2: Invalid argument
> Jan  3 16:42:34 romeo nfsd[193]: Unable to setfsgid -2: Invalid argument
> Jan  3 16:42:34 romeo nfsd[193]: Unable to setgroups: Invalid argument
> 
> The system is running anyway but produces lots of load on the syslogd and
> the logfiles tend to grow way too fast...
> 
> Florian.

The nfs demon is known to complain about nearly anything and yes this
can slow down connections tremendously.  I would try to configure the
terminal so that the syslog demon isnt started at bootup, or point the
nfsd to put all its error messages into /dev/null.

Charlie

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Date: 2000/01/11
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