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3 total messages Started by David Meyer Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:16

#311

Author: David Meyer
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:16

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At boot time, I'm getting some strange error/warning messages on my console,  
such as

	Check-in service NetMessage
	Check-in port 13 for NetMessage
	Registering new service C library lookup
	Registering new port 102 for C library lookup
	Server midi linking /usr/lib/kernloader/Midi/midi_reloc against /mach
	Server midi loading executable "/mach" for linage base file

I get this stuff about the time when /etc/rc is loading biod and ntpd.  Also,  
in /tmp/console.log I get stuff like 

	Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: bootstrap_subset new bootstrap  
839 unpriv 840
	Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: Registered new service  
MailFetch_port
	Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: Registering port 841 for  
service MailFetch_port

None of these things seems to have had horrible consequences, though  
occasionally my machine seems to have trouble associating IP addresses with  
machine names.  For instance, once my machine couldn't find my NNTP server  
based on it's name, but it worked fine when I gave it an IP address.  Another  
time .rhosts wasn't working because my machine couldn't figure out the name of  
the machine I was rlogining in from.  In both cases, /usr/etc/nslookup worked  
fine, so it wasn't the nameserver dying.

I have installed nident and the new finger and fingerd, but both of those  
packages worked fine for several weeks before this mess started.  I also  
recently installed a websterd package, but removing it doesn't fix the  
problem.

Anyone have any idea(s) what the problem(s) might be?

		Dave

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David M. Meyer                             Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
dmm0t@virginia.edu                         University of Virginia
dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (NeXTmail)

Re: strange console messages

#321

Author: Eric P. Scott
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:43

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In article <1992Jul30.151607.27844@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
	dmm0t@rincewind.mech.Virginia.EDU (David Meyer) writes:
>At boot time, I'm getting some strange error/warning messages on my console,  
>such as
>
>	Check-in service NetMessage
>	Check-in port 13 for NetMessage
>	Registering new service C library lookup
>	Registering new port 102 for C library lookup

Those come from mach_init

>	Server midi linking /usr/lib/kernloader/Midi/midi_reloc against /mach
>	Server midi loading executable "/mach" for linage base file

Those come from kern_loader

[Half of those messages you didn't transcribe accurately!
 Please, if you're including stuff like error messages in problem
 reports, having the *exact* text is most helpful.]

>I get this stuff about the time when /etc/rc is loading biod and ntpd.  Also,  
>in /tmp/console.log I get stuff like 
>
>	Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: bootstrap_subset new bootstrap  
>839 unpriv 840
>	Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: Registered new service  
>MailFetch_port
>	Jul 30 11:04:28 rincewind mach_init[2]: Registering port 841 for  
>service MailFetch_port

More mach_init stuff.

>None of these things seems to have had horrible consequences

They're perfectly normal--however, most users never see them
because nearly all are syslogged as daemon.info and NeXT's
standard /etc/syslog.conf discards anything below daemon.notice.
[N.B. since you didn't mention which OS version you have, so I'm
answering this for 2.1.]

>                                                              though  
>occasionally my machine seems to have trouble associating IP addresses with  
>machine names.

Completely unrelated.

You'll have to furnish more information about your setup; there
isn't enough to go on (are you running a nameserver locally or
using someone else's?  Are you on the far end of a SLIP/CSLIP/PPP
link?  etc.).

					-=EPS=-

Re: strange console messages

#323

Author: Eric P. Scott
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 04:56

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In article <1992Jul31.044344.5287@csus.edu> I wrote:
>[N.B. since you didn't mention which OS version you have, so I'm
       ^^^^^                                               ^^
delete one of these words--it's late, and I'm tired

Also, if you're not familiar with syslog, the man pages syslog(3)
and syslogd(8) are worth reading.  The notation daemon.info
means "a facility of LOG_DAEMON and a severity level of
LOG_INFO."

					-=EPS=-

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