Stephen Potter wrote: > I have kind of a strange problem and an old system... > > I have an old Solaris 7 system that recently had some problems. I had > to do a bare metal restore to get it back up and running. This is a > legacy system running some legacy code that is due to be retired in the > next six months or so, but until then I need it working and upgrades are > not an option. > > Most things seem to be working just fine, but I do get a few errors now > and then. One error comes every time I try to run some Veritas VM (3.0) > commands is that I get a "sh: Connection timed out". Another error that > I just ran across this morning is that basename fails with the error > "rcmd: socket: Permission denied". I truly don't understand this one, > because basename should never be trying to do anything involving rcmd > anyway. > > There's probably something that got messed up when the restore happened > that is causing this, but short of trying to troll through every file on > the OS, has anyone ever seen these kinds of errors before? >
I have seen this basename problem before.. It's skulking in a murky quarter of my brain where the lights went out and all the furniture was rearranged long ago.. I think John Sellens is on the right track. I feel sure that this is related to a permissions issue someplace. Either on something like /dev/tcp or /dev/<something_else> or somewhere else on the system. My best inclination is towards something in /dev. ownership or permission or both. _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
