Donna,
I could kiss you! :)
I followed your instructions and hey presto, Posix mended and Telnet
working like a charm.
Thank you so much.
I'm amazed you still have this information at your fingertips when it was
obsoleted so long ago!
Thank you very much.
Cheers,
John Dunlop
On 23 August 2013 16:08, Donna Hofmeister <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> you're probably missing all/most of your posix stuff. you can easily
> check by doing ":listfile /etc/,2" (you have to use listfile...). If you
> see nothing...yeah...well...
>
> a quick repair for jinetd would be to do the following:
>
> NEWLINK /etc/services, SERVICES.NET.SYS
> NEWLINK /etc/protocols, PROTOCOL.NET.SYS
> NEWLINK /etc/inetd.conf, INETDCNF.NET.SYS
> On my system, I see the following files with links back to .net.sys:
>
> bootpd
> bootpquery
> bootptab
> hosts
> inetd
> inetd.conf
> protocols
> resolv.conf
> services
>
> You might want to go ahead and make those as well....
>
> For restoring your missing files...you're on a bit of a quest. You can
> check your tapes (do a vstore) to see if any of them have slash-lowercase
> files....maybe you'll get lucky! If so, do "restore *t ; / - @[log in to unmask]@; keep"
>
> If you're not so lucky, try this...
>
> 1. Restore the following from the FOS tape:
> restore *t;@.hp36431.support,i0036431.usl.sys;create;show
>
> 2. :STREAM I0036431.USL.SYS
>
> 3. After I0036431 finishes,
> :STREAM SUPACCT.PUB.SYS
>
> - donna
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:29 AM, John Dunlop <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hello, .
>>
>> Everything is peachy after the Install now on the 918 except I havn't been
>> able to get Telnet working.
>> It errors every time whatever I put in the INETDCNF.NET<http://inetdcnf.net/>file.
>>
>> In my attempts, it appears that I have missing links to the Posix shell.
>>
>> Incidentally I am on
>>
>> RELEASE: C.60.00 MPE/iX HP31900 C.16.01 USER VERSION: C.60.00
>> Yes, I know it's very old - :(
>>
>> When I execute SH.HPBIN.SYS -L I get a $ prompt which from my research
>> suggests that my /etc/profile isn't being executed.
>> However, I also believe there are some links missing as no commands (pwd,
>> ls, chgrp) are found.
>>
>> Without these commands or vi, I'm not sure how I can access my profile.
>>
>> It appears that Telnet requires that a link has to be in effect from
>> /etc/inetd.conf to INETDCNF.NET <http://inetdcnf.net/> for it to
>> function correctly.
>>
>> Any help?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> John Dunlop
>>
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>
>
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