| Title: | DECmcc user notes file. Does not replace IPMT. |
| Notice: | Use IPMT for problems. Newsletter location in note 6187 |
| Moderator: | TAEC::BEROUD |
| Created: | Mon Aug 21 1989 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Jun 04 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 6497 |
| Total number of notes: | 27359 |
I've just installed VMS V5.4 on a 3400 with 64Mb memory and a single RF71; I had no problems with the installation of VMS, and afterwards the DNS clerk started with no problem. I'm having a problem with DNS V1.1 now. When I installed it I created a new namespace (NMF_NS), and it looked like it succeeded (the IVP passed). I then installed the latest FT DECmcc (IT1.1.0) and the DECmcc ToolKit (1.0). Now when I try to start up DECmcc I get an error message because the shared image SYS$LIBRARY:DNS$SHARE.EXE is not installed. I looked in the DNS$* DCL files and found that that file is installed by DNS$CLERK_STARTUP.COM, so I stopped and restarted the clerk - at this point I get an error: "%DNS-E-SOLICITMBXFORMA, Mailbox message to DNS$SOLICIT badly formatted", so the shareable images are not installed. I have tried shutting things down and restarting them, even booting and starting things up one - by - one with no success. I would welcome *any* suggestions, if not how to fix it at least where to look! Thanks, - Rick Lord
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| 378.1 | Check your default namespace? | NSSG::R_SPENCE | Nets don't fail me now... | Wed Oct 03 1990 21:25 | 10 |
I believe that you have to modify a file related to DNS startup to
change your default namespace to be the one you want. I seem to
remember that you can speicify a list of namespaces but the one that
you want MCC to use must be the default.
If you use DFS normally, just be sure to make your DFS mount commands
access a specific namespace (like DEC:.eng.nac.nets.user$98) so the
DFS mounts don't use the default by accedent.
s/rob
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| 378.2 | Progress report ... | PHONE::LORD | Fri Oct 05 1990 10:57 | 16 | |
A few more details - I have been corresponding with Roger Z. from the
DNS group, and he is looking into the problem. Presently it is crashing
when I do a DNS SHOW DIRECTORY DNA_NODE, but only after I start up the
MCC director: before that the identical command works fine. I have run
the MCC file MCC_DNS_BASIC_SETUP, but not MCC_DNS_SETUP, which comes up
with a menu (I'm not sure what menu items are required for setup, as
the installation document I'm working from does not mention a menu).
By the way, it is the system which is crashing, not just the DNS
process. DNS seems to be setting up the default namespace properly,
as soon as I start it I can do a DNSCP SHOW NAMESPACE.
- Rick Lord
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| 378.3 | DNS configuration errors | TOOK::ZEE | Name that server | Fri Oct 05 1990 16:32 | 17 |
Basically, most of the DNS clerk that comes with VMS V5.4 was deleted and replaced with an old DNS clerk that comes with the DNS V1.1 Server kit (which should not have been installed). This old DNS clerk would allow the DNS Server to operate, but not any DNS client application using the $DNS system service nor DNS rtl routines (like MCC) because DNS$SHARE.EXE and DNS$RTL.EXE did not exist back then. So, if anyone installs a DNS V1.1 Server onto a VMS V5.3 (that's when the DNS clerk began appearing with VMS) or later system, the installation should detect that the clerk version on the system is equal to or later than the old clerk in the server kit, and therefore not install it. No DNS clerk files in SYS$COMMON should be deleted. Reference note 413 in the DNS conference if interested (KP7 to add). --Roger | |||||