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>From: Peter Schmid <address@hidden> >Organization: SUNY Albany >Keywords: 199904011452.HAA10361 McIDAS ADDE NIS Pete, >I have installed/setup/configured McIDAS 7.5X on our Unix cluster on both >Sparc and intel platforms. > >My question (really a comments to some degree) is it appears to me that the >ADDE server entries that need to be placed in /etc/services actually need >to be in the flat file and can't be referenced via our NIS services database. Sites using NIS need to add the entries for the services in a different way than the standard. We have gone through this with another site, so the information is in our online McIDAS email archives. >I was attempting to install the server via our NIS database so I could easily >test the ADDE server on a machine other than our current operational machine >then quickly and easily switch it over to our operational machine. The only >way I could seem to get the ADDE server to work is if I added the mcserv and >mccompress entries into that machines' /etc/services file even though my >nsswitch.conf file specified looking at our NIS database. I was successful in getting the ADDE remote server setup on a machine using NIS without having to muck with the machines /etc/services file. >If this is indeed the case (which is fine), I would suggest maybe a statement >in the setup instructions that it can't be placed in an NIS database. But it can. >Otherwise McIDAS 7.5 w/ ADDE installed okay and is running fine. Glad to hear it. Just for my information, how many machines are we talking about? >Thanks, >Pete. Tom >From address@hidden Thu Apr 1 10:28:24 1999 re: NIS setup info in tracking system >Since it is so early in the release of 7.5 I did not even think to look there. >Sorry about that, I usually try to search them out prior to writing e-mail to >you guys. re: how many of what kind of machines >We have about 22 Pentium II's running Solaris 2.6 x86 and about 40 Sparc >machines running 2.6. However we only have a few people around here that run >McIDAS. Most people here run Gempak so it won't get too much use. But both >David and I really want to stay at least current with McIDAS. >The way I have the two different platforms setup is we have both a >SPARC and x86 server for each platform. Each server has an identical >/unidata partition with McIDAS and other Unidata software installed. >The x86 clients automount x86-server:/unidata and the SPARC clients >automount sparc-server:/unidata. That way user profiles don't care >which platform they log onto no matter what software they use. That >way I don't have to add a platform specific environment or figure out >which platform users are logged into. >Maybe not totally the best way to do it but it solved many obsticles >easily and simply. Pete.