20001113: RedHat Linux McIDAS-X install at AWC (cont.)

>From: Steven Danz <address@hidden>
>Organization: Aviation Weather Center
>Keywords: 200011131943.eADJhcO11970 McIDAS-X install

Steven,

>Ok, I've done the deed and the script seems to think all is well:
>
>sh mcinet7.7.sh install mcadde
>mcinet7.7: /etc/services: mcserv: adding service lines
>11310
>11358
>mcinet7.7: /etc/services: mccompress: adding line
>11358
>11413
>mcinet7.7: /etc/inetd.conf: mcserv: adding line
>3888
>3971
>mcinet7.7: /etc/inetd.conf: mccompress: adding line
>3971
>4058
>mcinet7.7: telling inetd to reread its configuration
>mcinet7.7: waiting for inetd to reread its configuration
>mcinet7.7: inetd mcserv configuration installed successfully
>mcinet7.7: inetd mccompress configuration installed successfully

This looks correct.

>Though I'm guessing it won't be accessable outside our network, it
>seems to think all is well.

OK, but I should be able to test it from the login session that I have
running on ftb2.  I will feel better about "things" when I can test
the remote ADDE server access from ftb2 to ftb2.  After that, I will
be out of your hair :-)

I took the liberty of checking your TCP wrapper mods to /etc/inetd:

mcserv          stream  tcp     nowait  mcadde  /usr/sbin/in.tcpd       
/home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh       mcservsh -H /home/mcidas
mccompress      stream  tcp     nowait  mcadde  /usr/sbin/in.tcpd       
/home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh       mcservsh -H /home/mcidas

I believe that these should read:

mcserv          stream  tcp     nowait  mcadde  /usr/sbin/in.tcpd       
/home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh       -H /home/mcidas
mccompress      stream  tcp     nowait  mcadde  /usr/sbin/in.tcpd       
/home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh       -H /home/mcidas

The stuff passed to /home/mcidas/bin/mcservsh should be '-H /home/mcidas'
not 'mcservsh -H /home/mcidas'

The other thing that you will need to attend to is the mcservsh entry
in /etc/hosts.allow.  Allowing everyone mandates an entry that looks like:

mcservsh:       ALL

Of course, you can limit it to any set of IP addresses that you choose.

Tom