Subject: Re: Trouble Starting Netatalk - Invalid Arguments to 'socket'??
From: Daniel E. Lautenschleger (dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 08:17:46 EST
Sounds like you need to add the infamous "alias net-pf-5 appletalk" line
to your /etc/conf.modules file :-)
-Dan
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Basil Hussain wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've just tried installing the latest (8th Nov) RPM of Netatalk from
> Sourceforge on a stock RedHat 6.2 machine. I'm having a bit of trouble
> getting Netatalk to start. Upon starting, I get these errors:
>
> # /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk start
> Starting AppleTalk services: socket: Invalid argument
> socket: Invalid argument
> atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting.
> [ OK ]
>
> And I also get this in the system log:
>
> Nov 21 11:52:07 vic20 atalkd: socket: Invalid argument
> Nov 21 11:52:07 vic20 atalkd: socket: Invalid argument
> Nov 21 11:52:07 vic20 atalkd: atalkd: can't get interfaces, exiting.
> Nov 21 11:52:07 vic20 atalk: atalkd startup failed
> Nov 21 11:52:07 vic20 atalk: timelord startup succeeded
> Nov 21 11:52:07 vic20 timelord[617]: main: atp_open: Invalid argument
>
> Why wouldn't atalkd be able to get a socket? What is providing invalid
> arguments, whatever it may be?
>
> I can't think what it could be that's stopping it working - I installed the
> same RPM onto a virtually identical machine (they only differ in the model
> of Intel network card) with RH 6.2 only the other day, which works
> absolutely fine.
>
> I'm thinking it might possibly be something to do with my config, but I have
> nothing strange there. In my netatalk.conf file I have these directives:
>
> AFPD_MAX_CLIENTS=20
> ATALK_NAME=`echo ${HOSTNAME}`
> AFPD_GUEST=nobody
> ATALKD_RUN=yes
> PAPD_RUN=no
> AFPD_RUN=yes
> ATALK_BGROUND=no
>
> In my afpd.conf file I have:
>
> - -transall -uamlist uams_dhx.so -nosavepassword
>
> And I have a couple of entries in the AppleVolumes.default file:
>
> ~
> /home/httpd/html "Discussions Web Root" casefold:tolower
>
> Can anyone assist here?
>
> Regards,
>
> ------------------------------------------------
> Basil Hussain (basil.hussain@specialreserve.net)
>
>
--Daniel E. Lautenschleger University of Wisconsin R.M. Bock Laboratories Network Administrator and Computer Support dan@www.molbio.wisc.edu http://resumes.dice.com/pooba53
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