Arthur Wilkinson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I know these are not really radio related, but I thought I'd ask here
> first.
>
> The first problem is my in.timed demon from RedHat 5.2 distribution CD
> doesn't seem to work correctly. When I run the command:
>
> netdate gb7lgs.demon.co.uk
>
> on another (also RedHat 5.2) machine on my LAN I either get a message that
> a UDP connection could not be established or I get a totally wrong date
> (Feb 7 2036).
>
> The log files on the 'server' (/var/log/secure) show a series of lines
> like:
>
> Dec 19 23:00:01 gb7lgs in.timed[5350]: connect from <hostname>
> Dec 19 23:00:02 gb7lgs in.timed[5351]: connect from <hostname>
> Dec 19 23:00:03 gb7lgs in.timed[5352]: connect from <hostname>
>
> I'm using netdate-1.16-2 from Demon's mirror of contrib.redhat.com and
> intimed-1.10-7 from the RedHat 5.2 CD.
>
> Using the same version of netdate to query my ISP's (Demon) Time servers
> seems to work fine, so it seems to be in.timed thats broken, but even
> compiling a new one from the source on my RedHat CD didn't help.
>
> (Neither contrib.redhat.com or the Demon mirror appear to have any version
> of intimed in either source or binary forms).
>
> My second problem is that ppp-2.3.5-1 from RedHat 5.2 distribution doesn't
> seem to be calling my /etc/ppp/ip-up or /etc/ppp/ip-down scripts when the
> PPP link comes up or goes down. (so the system doesn't send outgoing MAIL
> / NEWS items without manual intervention).
Hi Stewart,
/etc/ppp/ip-up is called on my RH5.2 system, with ppp-2.3.5-1 as well.
So that shouldn't be the problem here.
You may need to check /var/log/messages; perhaps it shows what
is going wrong.
73,
Jan
>
>
> Anyone else had eiher of these problems and fixed them ?
>
> --
> 73s Stewart G0LGS
