[SunHELP] rdate error message

[Doug McLaren]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2001 at 03:38:44PM -0500, william.x.ng at verizon.com wrote:

| Does anyone know when I tried to rdate <hostname>, I got following error
| messages:
| "Sorry, TCP protocol not in protocols database"
| Does anyone have an idea? They both run at 5.6 and user is root.

The error message basically means that it tried to find the protocol
number for TCP and failed.

This information is located in /etc/protocols, and this file is very
rarely touched.

If this file is messed up, just about everything that uses the network
will stop working (unless they've hardcoded the appropriate values,
which is possible.)

It's also possible that /etc/nsswitch.conf is telling it to go to NIS
for the protocol information and that is what's messed up.

You may want to use `truss' on rdate and see exactly what it's
accessing to get to this point.

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Doug McLaren, dougmc at frenzy.com                           Aaaalllllrightythen!