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20000726: McIDAS-X installation at Western Michigan (cont.)



>From: address@hidden
>Organization: Western Michigan
>Keywords: 200007181435.e6IEZAT22632 McIDAS-X -XCD LDM ldm-mcidas intall

Leonard,

>Try it now.  I have the inetd.conf stuff in place.  I had to change the
>protection on some files and directories in the mcidas account but it
>looks like it's nominally working.  But we don't have the expertise to
>test it.

The first thing I always do to test whether or not a remote ADDE server
installation is working is test access to the ports it will use: 500
(uncompressed transfers) and 503 (compressed transfers):

telnet s418.lab2.cc.wmich.edu 500
Trying...

This does not connect like it should, so something is still not done.
(Note: the port is not used for telnet; it is just easy to see if
services on the port are allowed using telnet).

Non-functionality is confirmed by me attempting to do an ADDE function
to s418 from a machine here in Unidata and that failing also.

A couple of things might be going on:

o did you send a HUP to inetd after making the mods to /etc/inetd.conf
o I notice that there is a space between 'mcservsh' and '-H' in
  /etc/inetd.conf on s418.  On our machines this is a tab.
o since I do not know much about NIS, I can't tell if the services for
  ports 500 and 503 have been defined.  On non-NIS systems, /etc/services
  will have the following entries:

mcserv          500/tcp      # McIDAS ADDE port
mccompress      503/tcp      # McIDAS ADDE compression port

  Your system does not.  I have to believe that this might be the
  problem.

Tom


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