From: johnm@PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_GATEWAY_FILE (John Markus Bjoerndalen) Subject: Re: SLS 98p5: ioctl invalid argument in boot up Date: 30 Dec 1992 04:58:27 GMT
Tim Foley (tfoley@camaro.uucp) wrote:
> In article <1992Dec28.162258.28622@r-node.gts.org> marc@r-node.gts.org (Marc Fournier - Admin) writes:
> >In article <1992Dec28.134615.12447@news.ysu.edu> ah214@yfn.ysu.edu (Weijin Mai) writes:
[description of ioctl error messages at bootup]
>
> Hi Mark, moving into the Linux world eh...good stuff.
>
> The error (if you are using SLS) is most likely the lack of the eth0 from
> the space.c in the kernel, this error is generated by the CONFIG $IPADDR
> etc... line in the rc.net file, I had the same thing, since I don't have an
> ethernet card installed or defined, I just killed that line, check in the
> usr/etc/inet for rc.net and the config line, add some echo statements to
> your rc.* scripts to narrow it down if this is not the problem.
>
> Take Care
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I would rather suggest that he fixed the line causing the problem to
use the loopback device instead of the eth0 device. So the three config
lines would become :
$CONFIG loopback $IPADDR
$CONFIG loopback 127.0.0.1
$CONFIG -n $NET -r $ROUTER loopback $IPADDR
This should work. Only other problem I ran into when I fixed this was
that the namedeamon semed to be a bit picky about the format in the
namedeamon data files. But that worked out nice too after a little
fiddling.