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I have two questions regarding two SCO machines I have...

1) I have ODT v3.0 up and running and everything is fine.  Along comes a
request to configure/run DNS on it.  I figure: No problem!  I configure
DNS and shutdown the system... when I brought it back up, it hung on
"Scologin starting on /dev/tty2...".  And it just sits there!  So, I went
an mv'd named.boot to named.hold, and brought the system down.  After
bringing it back up... the machine runs like a champ again (minus DNS of
course).  I am assuming I have misconfigured something... any ideas?

2) On another ODT v3.0 box, I have attached a modem.  Using CU I am able
to connect to other Unix machines - no problem.  I try and transfer a
file from the remote Unix box to my SCO ODT box.  I issue the following
command:
        ~%take (filename)
The file transfer proceeds... and then at roughly the end of the file, it
just stops.  I know it is at about the end of the file because of the
123456789012345678 nonsense, and I can open another window, ls, and see
it is roughly the same size as the original file.  At this point I hit
<ENTER>, all the control-character sequences I can think of.... and still
nothing.  I end up having to kill the connection.  I thought/think I had
the control-characters set up the same as the remote machine...

Any help would be appreciated...

: I have two questions regarding two SCO machines I have...

: 1) I have ODT v3.0 up and running and everything is fine.  Along comes a
: request to configure/run DNS on it.  I figure: No problem!  I configure
: DNS and shutdown the system... when I brought it back up, it hung on
: "Scologin starting on /dev/tty2...".  And it just sits there!  So, I went
: an mv'd named.boot to named.hold, and brought the system down.  After
: bringing it back up... the machine runs like a champ again (minus DNS of
: course).  I am assuming I have misconfigured something... any ideas?

This is (probably) caused by the files /etc/X?.hosts

These files contain lists of hosts that are authorised to connect
to the X server.  The default files contain the line:

#Authorized foreign hosts.

Unfortunately, the code (in the X server I think) that processes these
files does not have a comment convention.  So it tries to look up
the above line as a hostname.

If you make those files zero length, things may be happier.

In general I've found that if the nameservice is working perfectly,
this isn't a problem ... the names come back unresolved and things
continue.  I tracked it down while figuring out how to make the
nameserver and PPP play together nicely.

Tom