From: wonge@fraser.sfu.ca (Edmund Wong)
Subject:  empire/news/ytalk/talk
Keywords: empire news talk
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:49:35 GMT

  Hi y'all.

       First of all, I'd like to thank those whose helped me get
my system up to this working order, with some minor glitches.

       At this moment, a few things are hampering my enjoyment
with using Linux and I hope someone out there can help me with them.

      1) Well, with empire, it really isn't a problem, just
         some sort of ambiguity in filenames.  I was told
         to execute the 'file' command.  I executed it and
         it gave me some useage error... I checked that there
         exists a 'file' command other than the 'file' command
         that came with the empire binaries.  So I renamed the
         empire's file command to something else and it works.
         Btw, that was just general info for everyone else.

         The minor question I'd like to know is how do I start
         servers?  ie. I was told to start the 'emp_tm' and
         the 'emp_login' server.  Just for refreshing, do I
         execute it like the following?:-

		/usr/games/lib/empire/bin/emp_tm &
                /usr/games/lib/empire/bin/emp_login &

      2) For news, I've been asking privately around and
         still have no idea what the hell is wrong.  Please
         pardon my frustrations, as I do not mean to offend anyone.
         After posting with 'trn', it processes the article( I think) 
         for a bit, and then it gives me the following message:-

          '/usr/local/lib/news/inews: article in /root/dead.article'

         Can someone please help me with this?

      3) For 'talk' and 'ytalk', both commands have also been giving
         me problems.  Whenever I issue a 'talk wonge' I get a
         LONG delay, and then an error message :-
 
           talk: eagles: Host name lookup failure

         And when I do a 'ytalk wonge' I get :-

            Unknown host: eagles: Connection refused

         Can someone pinpoint my error?   My /etc/hosts seems to
 be in proper order being(I think, and I was told to do something
like this):-

           # /etc/hosts
           127.0.0.1     loopback eagles eagles.van.bc.ca
           # end

       Come to think of it, there could be a relation between #2 and
#3, in the sense that, I think that my TCP/IP isn't working well.  I
do not want to frustrate anyone out there, so I'm not gonna ask any
probable-faq questions.    

        However, I would like to ask if someone can tell me how I
can RE-DO everything from scratch.  Do I delete everything from
/etc/inet and d/l the appropriate stuff (TCP/IP avec named..etc)
or to make life easy (:, do I just delete a few data files and
issue the config command again.  Mind you, is there any alterations
to what I enter in the config script, when I'm just using loopback
mode?  

       Personally, I wish someone can at least make a small file which
describes the procedures for installing TCP/IP for loopback mode.  It
would be especially helpful for newbies.


       Thank you very much, any help appreciated... 


 


    
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