[H-GEN] amd

[Brent Wesley]

Make sure the ip of the names of the macjines you are thrying to use are in
your /ect/hosts file. This should also have you localhost ip in it.  This
goes for a lot of programs.  (eg sendmail) that try to resolve names.

Hope this helps.
Brent.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Paul Gearon [SMTP:gearon at computer.org]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 10, 1998 9:57 AM
> To:	general at humbug.org.au
> Subject:	[H-GEN] amd
> 
> I mentioned this yesterday on #humbug and I was wondering if anyone 
> could help me please.
> 
> When amd starts on my machine (running RH5.1) it takes over a minute 
> to start.  As a couple of people suggested yesterday, this is 
> probably due to a name server timeout.  The thing is, I didn't have a 
> name server set up for that machine (I do now - but it's my ISP and 
> ppp doesn't start at boot so amd won't find it).  I also haven't done 
> any fiddling with NFS, so I can't see why it would be looking for any 
> other computers on the network.  In case it's relevant, the machine 
> does have a network card in it, but currently isn't connected to any 
> other machines, and didn't know about any other machines until ppp 
> was configured.
> 
> Anyway, I went looking through /etc/amd.conf and I found the 
> following:
> 
> /defaults fs:=${autodir}/${rhost}/root/${rfs};opts=nosuid,nodev
> *       rhost:=${key};type:=host;rfs:=/
> 
> Unfortunately I con't see how this relates to the man/info pages for 
> amd.conf.
> 
> The problem isn't critical (amd _does_ finally start) but it is 
> really annoying.  Any suggestions?
> 
> TIA
> Paul
> Paul Gearon
> gearon at computer.org
> 
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