From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 3 23:04:43 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id XAA20846 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:04:43 -0700 Received: from rflab1.gtri.gatech.edu (rflab1.gtri.gatech.edu [130.207.199.83]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id XAA20837 for ; Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:04:39 -0700 Received: (from ken@localhost) by rflab1.gtri.gatech.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id CAA21102 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 4 Oct 1995 02:04:18 -0400 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" Message-Id: <199510040604.CAA21102@rflab1.gtri.gatech.edu> Subject: 2.1.0-950928-SNAP initial experiences To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 02:04:18 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 2298 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Well, I installed 2.1.0-950928-SNAP on 2 P-100's tonight, and it went off like a charm. Just as a data point: Both have ASUS PCI/I-P55TP4XE motherboards, Pentium 100's, ASUS SC-200 NCR controllers, SMC PCI ethernet cards. One has 8 megs, the other 16. Both have 1 gig Fujitsu drives. We did the install via ftp from a machine on the local network. Anyway, we've been having a strange problem with telnetd: {foo:/usr/home/ken:25} telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.residence.gatech.edu. Escape character is '^]'. ld.so failed: Undefined symbol "_encrypt_debug_mode" in telnetd:telnetd Connection closed by foreign host. That same problem comes up when telneting into the box from anywhere. (Solaris, localhost, 2.0.5 boxes, IRIX 5.2...) rlogind doesn't seem to be affected by that problem. Any idea what's wrong? I installed the DES stuff, but not any of the Kerberos or eBones stuff. Another thing...the timezone config seems to be wrong, at least in what it tells you. (i.e. you give it local time, it thinks local time is GMT or something, and spits back local time minus your GMT offset or something....my mind is kinda fuzzy on that one right now...) The install looks pretty good, overall. I've got one minor nit, besides the timezone stuff. I went through the paritioning stuff, created a BSD partition, and used the 'w' option to write it out. Then I went to the disklabel stuff, and when I tried to write it out, I think it said it couldn't write out the root partition, and spit out some kind of error message. I had to back out to the previous menu, and chose the 'commit' option in order to get sysinstall to properly disklabel and newfs the drives. After that, though, it worked just fine. Anyway, I hope this helps debug things before the release. Take the install stuff with a grain of salt...(I'm damn tired) but the telnetd problem is easily reproducible. Overall, the install is pretty nice, and things look pretty good. The machines I installed it on belong to two FreeBSD newbies (they aren't afraid to try things out, though). They were very impressed with the ports stuff. (IMO it's one of FreeBSD's great assets) Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@rflab1.gtri.gatech.edu Disclaimer: I don't speak for GTRI, GT, or Elvis.