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  • From: Frediano Ziglio <freddyz77 AT tin.it>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: remote access to Sybase on RH 7.3
  • Date: 15 Aug 2002 08:20:49 +0200


Il gio, 2002-08-15 alle 08:17, James K. Lowden ha scritto:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I can't access my Sybase server over the network. It's not like I didn't
> change anything; I did. It's just that it's definitely not a FreeTDS
> question.
>
> What I did:
>
> I upgraded my TurboLinux server to Red Hat 7.3. To get Sybase going
> again, I recreated the /opt/sybase-11.9.2 tree with tar, and remounted the
> device partition at
> /opt/sybase-11.9.2/Devices. I wrote a little script to set up the locale
> stuff the way it had been in TurboLinux. I fired up startserver,
> connected with their isql, and voila, I was in server heaven.
>
> >From outside the box, though, it's another story, and not a happy one.
> Maybe Tolstoy was onto something there.
>
> I can connect to the server's telnetd. I made all the usual entries in
> /etc/services and I deleted /etc/hosts.allow. (The RH manual says lack of
> hosts.allow means all hosts are allowed. That's confirmed by telnetd
> working.) I fussed with /etc/hosts, because some time ago Michael Peppler
> mentioned that Linux hosts often have faulty domain notions, that Sybase
> doesn't like:
>
> $ cat /etc/hosts
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1 sandbox.schemamania.org sandbox
> localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.1.12 sandbox.schemamania.org
>
> But still no joy. Any suggestions? Is running through a complete Sybase
> reinstall necessary or even recommended? I should think one could backup
> and restore an installation, but then I should have thunk what I did
> woulda worked. Or is there a magic switch I overlooked? As you can
> probably tell, I'm not a Linuxhead. I run it to run Sybase.
>
> Many thanks,
>
RH use SSH (IMHO good decision) and for default install some firewall
role.

Just give a "ipchains -nvL" (from root) to see the firewall role
currently active.

freddy77






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