In article <PALM.93Oct28141544@jedc11.tokyo.rockwell.com>,
|> A fourth way is to use proxy-cmsd .
|> We have used it for several months with no problems.
|>
|> A clip from the README file says:
|>
|> Proxy-cmsd acts as an intermediate between the cm process on a local
|> host and the rpc.cmsd server on a central calendar manager host. It
|> runs instead of rpc.cmsd on the local host and looks to the "cm" process
|> like a normal rpc.cmsd daemon.
|>
|> Warnings & Known problems:
|>
|> Has only been used on SunOS 4.1.{1,2,3}
|>
|> Proxy-cmsd will exit after a few minutes of inactivity and then
|> should be re-started by inetd when a new packet arrives. Inetd
|> sometimes won't re-start it. This is a known inetd bug, and
|> is documented in the SunOS 4.1.2 Release manual (chapter 10).
This is easy to bypass in your server...you just have to make sure the rpc-
ping command is udp, and inetd will start you everytime. Other connections
can be by tcp.
Alan Humphery's fix for cm this handles this correctly as well as the "for my
eyes only" and others that proxy-cmsd gets wrong.
Patrick
--These opinions are mine, and not Amdahl's (except by coincidence;).
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