Thanks for all your help. There are too many names to print here but
you know who you are.
The answers I received for the in.routed problem were:
1. Install jumbo patch
[ I am not allowed to do this because our software must run on a bare
bones OS ]
2. check /etc/init.d/netinet
[ This file doesn't exist on my machine ]
3. put echo statements in startup script
[ already tried that - didn't get any good information ]
4. check to make sure /etc/defaultrouter doesn't exist
[ it doesn't ]
5. You don't need a routed if you only have one interface.
[ if I don't have routed running then I can't ping other
machines on the same network ]
6. Someone gave me a little code to add to my rc2 to turn
on shell debugging so that I could see what was going
on
[ I haven't tried that yet ]
The answers I received for the second question were:
1. Install jumbo patch
[ I'm not allowed - see comment for (1) above ]
2. 40MB of swap space is not enough for Sol 2.4/2.5
[ This is the solution I will use - increase the
swap space on the machine ]
Thanks again!
Dotty
The orignal question:
>
>Sun Managers:
>
>I have a machine - a Tatung Sparc 5 clone and it's running
>Solaris 2.4 with no patches. Most recently, I've noticed
>that in.routed doesn't start up at boot time. I've checked
>for the obvious things:
>
>a) /etc/defaultdomain doesn't exist
>b) /etc/gateways doesn't exist
>c) /usr/sbin/in.rdisc does not exist
>
>This machine only has one interface (le0) and it is not a
>gateway machine. If I start it by hand, it runs and there
>are no complaints.
>
>Any suggestions?
>
>My other problem is that the same machine is continually
>running out of swap space. It has 32MB RAM and approx.
>40MB of swap. This is a machine used for testing the
>software that we write and usually when we leave an
>overnight test running, the machine's out of swap space
>by the next day.
>
>None of the programs have memory leaks because the
>same set of binaries run on a comparable Solaris 2.4
>system. And that machine doesn't come close to running
>out of swap
>
>When the Sparc 5 runs out of swap space, I exit out of
>OpenWindows and I try to kill processes but 'ps' won't
>work because there's no swap. The only solution I have
>is to shutdown the machine and reboot it.
>
>Has anyone seen this problem? Is there a recommended
>patch?
>
>We sorely need this test machine up and running week-long
>tests so any suggestions are appreciated!
>
>Thanks,
>Dotty
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