[Linux-decnet-user] More linux-decnet on SuSE Linux

[Larry B. <ba...@us...>]

I noticed the startup of Postfix failed after I enabled startup of 
linux-decnet.  I found there were many startup errors with similar 
messages (from portmap, ntpd, postfix), like:

postfix[2064]: fatal: inet_addr_local: ioctl SIOCGIFNETMASK: No such 
device

There are also messages like:

modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module

I modified /etc/init.d/decnet to force linux-decnet to startup after 
the other services:

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          decnet
# Required-Start:    $network
# X-UnitedLinux-Should-Start: $portmap xntpd postfix nscd
# Required-Stop:     $network
# X-UnitedLinux-Should-Stop: $portmap xntpd postfix nscd
# Default-Start:     3 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: DECnet dnetd daemon
### END INIT INFO

I'm still not sure why the errors occur and if they are gone now.  I 
remember seeing the modprobe errors in Red Hat 8 after installing 
linux-decnet; I just ignored them.  I haven't put my linux-decnet 
server back into service after the upgrade from Red Hat 8 to SuSE 9, so 
I can't tell you yet if things are working as they did before.

Larry Baker
US Geological Survey
650-329-5608
ba...@us...