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Conference irocz::netrider

Title:	NetRider --- Remote Network Access Conference
Notice:	Please use keywords! See Note 2 for Directory of Important Notes
Moderator:	LAVC::CAHILLON

Created:	Tue Jan 24 1995
Last Modified:	Mon Jun 02 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	554
Total number of notes:	2264

540.0. "DRAS V1.0 for Unix dras010_install.tar on feenix corrupted????" by 60689::LEUNG () Tue Apr 15 1997 21:48

I copied the DRAS V1.0 for Unix kit from
http://feenix.lkg.dec.com/~dras/dras.html, untar the file and then tried to
install it using setld.

Get the following error :
Digital Remote Access Security Server (DRAS) for DEC UNIX V1.0
   Copying from . (disk)
tar: - : This doesn't look like a tar archive
tar: - : Skipping to next file...
setld:
File copy to system disk failed.

Subset DRAS010 may not have been installed properly on your system
but the rest of the installation will continue.
   Verifying
setld:
There were verification errors for "Digital Remote Access Security Server (DRAS)
 for DEC UNIX V1.0" (DRAS010)

0 of 1 subset(s) installed successfully.

-rw-------   1 leung    system    870400 Apr 16 10:32 dras010_install.tar

I re-copied the same kit from feenix but still nogo.
Also copied the same tar file using decnet but same error.

Looking at the contents of the files, found that the file 'INSTCTRL' seems to be
corrupted. If I view the file, it says that :
"INSTCTRL" [Read only] [Incomplete last line] 402 lines, 14385 characters (6095
 nulls)

Also, the file is only 402 lines long and ends as such :
          echo " "
          echo "Software Inst


Has anyone used the tar file from feenix successfully?

Thanks
Dennis

BTW : I don't have access to the DRAS CD.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
540.1		60689::LEUNG		`Thu Apr 17 1997 22:02`	9
	hmmm.....help!!! Anyone has the DRAS CD and can copy the Digital Unix kit to an accessible location?? I really need to get hold of the kit to reproduce a customer's problem Thanks Dennis
540.2		LAVC::CAHILL	Jim Cahill	`Fri Apr 18 1997 11:24`	7
	We've looked into this problem and discovered at least some of the kits on FEENIX are corrupted. Apparently, they weren't copied correctly and some of the file attributes have been changed. We're working on fixing this. Jim
540.3	update???	NNTPD::"[email protected]"		`Tue Apr 29 1997 01:24`	12
	Any update please??? I even tried to install the kit from the CD, DRAS V1.0A August 1996 Part No. AG-QWW0B-BE Got same problem!!! CD was mounted as follows : mount -rt cdfs -o noversion,rrip /dev/rz4c /mnt Thanks Dennis [Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
540.4		IROCZ::D_NELSON	Dave Nelson LKG1-3/A11 226-5358	`Tue Apr 29 1997 19:08`	10
	RE: .3 > Any update please??? I have a theory. What version of Digital UNIX are you using? Regards, Dave
540.5	Found the problem....	IAMOSI::LEUNG		`Tue Apr 29 1997 22:45`	9
	RE: .4 I found what the problem is. In the kit (both the tar file on feenix and also on the CD), the file dras010_install/DRAS010 was in a compressed format. I had to uncompress the file first and then the installation using setld went fine. Dennis
540.6		IROCZ::D_NELSON	Dave Nelson LKG1-3/A11 226-5358	`Wed Apr 30 1997 10:50`	22
	RE: .5 > I found what the problem is. You didn't answer my question: which version of Digital UNIX? However, your problem description tends to confirm my theory. > In the kit (both the tar file on feenix and also on the CD), the file > dras010_install/DRAS010 was in a compressed format. We discovered that on Digital UNIX V4.*, the setld kits we were building using compression failed to install. The mechanism in setld that handled compression seems to have "broken", because the kist still install in older versions of Digital UNIX. Our workaround for now is to not use compression (which was mandatory for inclusion on ConDist). Since we have a separate CD, this isn't an issue. There may be a new kit build procedure that allows compression to work, but we are building kits under V3.2 (or thereabouts). Regards, Dave
540.7		IAMOSI::LEUNG		`Thu May 01 1997 20:18`	6
	RE: .6 Yes, the problem exists only on Unix V4.0 and above. The same kit installs fine on OSF V3.2x. Dennis