Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] netatalk on RHL 5.1
From: Ethan Benatan (ethan+@pitt.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 07 1998 - 09:02:05 EDT
>>> "Craig" == Craig Roberts <craig@rata.cce.ac.nz> writes:
Craig> Hi, (This is my first post to this list.)
Mine too... someone asked something I *might* be able to help with, so
the wizards can take a break ;-)
Craig> I am trying to get netatalk running on my RHL 5.1 (Intel) box.
It probably was not necessary to rebuild the kernel; RH5.1 comes with
AppleTalk support already compiled in. But no harm done. Actually it
sounds to me as if you have everything installed but simply didn't
*start* the service. Try: "ps aux | grep atalkd" and you should see a
line representing the atalkd process (you may also see a line with
"grep" in it- ignore that one, it's the command you just issued).
If you see the line, I'm wrong- let us know, and we'll try something
else. If you don't see the line, you'll need to try starting the
service. I'm using the asun version, so I am not sure if yours is set
up the same, but the installation left a file called rc.atalk in the
etc dir.
First step is to execute that file (you'll almost certainly need to be
root) manually- cd there and just "./rc.atalk". Then try the grep and
if that works, the Chooser.
If that works, you will want to make it startup automatically at boot
time. I simply copied this file to /etc/rc.d/init.d/ (renaming it to
just atalk) and then used the Runlevel Editor to start it at Runlevel
3. You can achieve exactly the same thing by copying it across and
then creating a soft link to it along these lines: "ln -s
/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90atalk /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk", which is pretty much
exactly what the Runlevel editor does.
One problem: rc scripts should properly talk an arg, "start" or
"stop", but the version of rc.atalk I got doesn't- it only knows how
to start the services, not stop them. Oh well. I'll fix this one
day, or find someone elses.
Hope this helps-
Ethan
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