Re: [Linux-decnet-user] Duffer's guide

[Paul S. <psh...@st...>]

At 13:17 25/07/02 +0100, Patrick Caulfield wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:30:41PM +0100, Nick Holder wrote:
>> I don't suppose anyone has made a duffers walkthrough guide to DECnet on
>> Linux?? (and need a duffer to try it on)
>
>Part of the problem with a duffers guide is that is is very distribution
>dependant. So the installation on RedHat varies considerably from Debian
(where
>DECnet is part of the distribution).
>
>You're right - a newbies HOWTO is very much needed, and I suppose a Red
Hat one
>would probably be the most commonly useful.

Can I second this request? I'm reasonably knowledgeable about VMS, DECnet
and Linux, but I go for months (sometimes years) without using DECNet under
Linux, then when I need to use it I've forgotton how everything works...
Also, the kernel code and dnprogs have changed quite a bit over the last
couple of years and it would be useful to know what works with what.

Personally I don't see the distro dependent stuff as all that important -
after all, RH people don't *have* to start daemons in the RH manner (for
example), they can just stick a line in rc.local or whatever. It's more a
question of setting the MAC address, setting up the config files, kernel
dependent issues etc. Most of this info is around *somewhere* but it's
often not obvious where. A short(ish) cribsheet would be really useful, or
even a list of documentation links with a description of what each covers.

You could send it to everybody on the list every 6 months...

Best regards, Paul

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