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From: Robert N Watson <rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help on arplookup and other please
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 15:56:28 -0400
Organization: Freshman, H&SS Undeclared, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc: 5-Oct-95 Help on
arplookup and other.. Jack Kwong@cs.cuhk.hk (839)
> Dear all FreeBSD users,
> I am new to the FreeBSD community, and encountered two
> questions:
> 1. Every time I try to telnet or ftp to a site, the following appears:
> [hostname] kernel: arplookup failed [ip address]: host is not on
> local network
> 2. When I am using a user account, I cannot use vi, finger etc. The
> error is "Permission Denied".
> What should I do in order to solve the above problems?
> Many thanks in advance!
That looks a lot like a /tmp writes problem (the latter problem, that
is.) Hopefully the rights on /tmp should look something like this when
you're done:
drwxrwxrwt 3 bin bin 512 Oct 5 15:46 tmp/
Maybe you have something more like...
drwxr-xr-x or such.. As for the arplookup -- I would not be qualified
to say, other than that I've never had that problem ;). Could you post
the outputs of netstat -nr, netstat -ni, and arp -a?
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Robert Watson (rnw+@andrew.cmu.edu) * Double major: IDS/CS * H&SS
http://www.watson.org/ robert@fledge.watson.org