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1 RPCSRC 4.0 7/11/89 2 3 This distribution contains Sun Microsystem's implementation of the 4 RPC and XDR protocols and is compatible with 4.2BSD and 4.3BSD. Also 5 included is complete documentation, utilities, RPC service 6 specification files, and demonstration services in the format used by 7 the RPC protocol compiler (rpcgen). See WHAT'S NEW below for 8 details. 9 10 NOTE ABOUT SECURE RPC: 11 12 This release of RPCSRC contains most of the code needed to implement 13 Secure RPC (see "DES Authentication" in the RPC Protocol Specification, 14 doc/rpc.rfc.ms). Due to legal considerations, we are unable to 15 distribute an implementation of DES, the Data Encryption Standard, which 16 Secure RPC requires. For this reason, all of the files, documentation, and 17 programs associated with Secure RPC have been placed into a separate 18 directory, secure_rpc. The RPC library contained in the main body of this 19 release *DOES NOT* support Secure RPC. See secure_rpc/README for more 20 details. (A DES library was posted in Volume 18 of comp.sources.unix.) 21 22 If you wish to report bugs found in this release, send mail to: 23 24 Portable ONC/NFS 25 Sun Microsystems, Inc 26 MS 12-33 27 2550 Garcia Avenue 28 Mountain View, CA 94043 29 30 or send Email to nfsnet (a] sun.com (the Internet) or sun!nfsnet (Usenet). 31 32 ROADMAP 33 34 The directory hierarchy is as follows: 35 36 demo/ Various demonstration services 37 demo/dir Remote directory lister 38 demo/msg Remote console message delivery service 39 demo/sort Remote sort service 40 41 doc/ Documentation for RPC, XDR and NFS in "-ms" format. 42 43 etc/ Utilities (rpcinfo and portmap). portmap must be 44 started by root before any other RPC network services are 45 used. SEE BELOW FOR BUGFIX TO 4.3BSD COMPILER. 46 47 man/ Manual pages for RPC library, rpcgen, and utilities. 48 49 rpc/ The RPC and XDR library. SEE BELOW 50 FOR BUGFIX TO 4.2BSD COMPILER. 51 52 rpcgen/ The RPC Language compiler (for .x files) 53 54 rpcsvc/ Service definition files for various services and the 55 server and client code for the Remote Status service. 56 57 secure_rpc/ The files in this directory are used to build a version of 58 the RPC library with DES Authentication. See the README 59 file in that directory for more details. 60 61 BUILD INSTRUCTIONS 62 63 Makefiles can be found in all directories except for man. The 64 Makefile in the top directory will cause these others to be invoked 65 (except for in the doc, man and demo directories), in turn building the 66 entire release. 67 68 WARNING! THE DEFAULT INSTALLATION PROCEDURES WILL INSTALL FILES 69 IN /usr/include, /usr/lib, /usr/bin and /etc. 70 71 The master RPC include file, rpc/rpc.h, is used by all programs and 72 routines that use RPC. It includes other RPC and system include files 73 needed by the RPC system. PLEASE NOTE: If your system has NFS, it 74 may have been based on Sun's NFS Source. The include files installed 75 by this package may duplicate include files you will find on your NFS 76 system. The RPCSRC 4.0 include files are upwardly compatible to all 77 NFS Source include files as of the date of this distribution (not 78 including any new definitions or declarations added by your system 79 vendor). HOWEVER: Please read the comments towards the end of 80 rpc/rpc.h regarding rpc/netdb.h. You may need to uncomment the 81 inclusion of that file if the structures it defines are already 82 defined by your system's include files. 83 84 After making any compiler fixes that are needed (see below), at 85 the top directory, type: 86 87 make install 88 89 For all installations, the Makefile macro DESTDIR is prepended to the 90 installation path. It is defined to be null in the Makefiles, so 91 installations are relative to root. (You will probably need root 92 privileges for installing the files under the default path.) To 93 install the files under some other tree (e.g., /usr/local), use the 94 command: 95 96 make install DESTDIR=/usr/local 97 98 This will place the include files in /usr/local/usr/include, the RPC 99 library in /usr/local/usr/lib, rpcgen in /usr/local/usr/bin, and the 100 utilities in /usr/local/etc. You'll have to edit the Makefiles or 101 install the files by hand if you want to do anything other than this 102 kind of relocation of the installation tree. 103 104 The RPC library will be built and installed first. By default it is 105 installed in /usr/lib as "librpclib.a". The directory 106 /usr/include/rpc will also be created, and several header files will 107 be installed there. ALL RPC SERVICES INCLUDE THESE HEADER FILES. 108 109 The programs in etc/ link in routines from librpclib.a. If you change 110 where it is installed, be sure to edit etc/'s Makefile to reflect this. 111 These programs are installed in /etc. PORTMAP MUST BE RUNNING ON 112 YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE YOU START ANY OTHER RPC SERVICE. 113 114 rpcgen is installed in /usr/bin. This program is required to build 115 the demonstration services in demo and the rstat client and server in 116 rpcsvc/. 117 118 The rpcsvc/ directory will install its files in the directory 119 /usr/include/rpcsvc. The Remote Status service (rstat_svc) will be 120 compiled and installed in /etc. If you wish to make this service 121 available, you should either start this service when needed or have 122 it started at boot time by invoking it in your /etc/rc.local script. 123 (Be sure that portmap is started first!) Sun has modified its 124 version of inetd to automatically start RPC services. (Use "make 125 LIB=" when building rstat on a Sun Workstation.) The Remote Status 126 client (rstat) will be installed in /usr/bin. This program queries 127 the rstat_svc on a remote host and prints a system status summary 128 similar to the one printed by "uptime". 129 130 The documentation is not built during the "make install" command. 131 Typing "make" in the doc directory will cause all of the manuals to 132 be formatted using nroff into a single file. We have had a report 133 that certain "troff" equivalents have trouble processing the full 134 manual. If you have trouble, try building the manuals individually 135 (see the Makefile). 136 137 The demonstration services in the demo directory are not built by the 138 top-level "make install" command. To build these, cd to the demo 139 directory and enter "make". The three services will be built. 140 RPCGEN MUST BE INSTALLED in a path that make can find. To run the 141 services, start the portmap program as root and invoke the service 142 (you probably will want to put it in the background). rpcinfo can be 143 used to check that the service succeeded in getting registered with 144 portmap, and to ping the service (see rpcinfo's man page). You can 145 then use the corresponding client program to exercise the service. 146 To build these services on a Sun workstation, you must prevent the 147 Makefile from trying to link the RPC library (as these routines are 148 already a part of Sun's libc). Use: "make LIB=". 149 150 BUGFIX FOR 4.3BSD COMPILER 151 152 The use of a 'void *' declaration for one of the arguments in 153 the reply_proc() procedure in etc/rpcinfo.c will trigger a bug 154 in the 4.3BSD compiler. The bug is fixed by the following change to 155 the compiler file mip/manifest.h: 156 157 *** manifest.h.r1.1 Thu Apr 30 13:52:25 1987 158 --- manifest.h.r1.2 Mon Nov 23 18:58:17 1987 159 *************** 160 *** 21,27 **** 161 /* 162 * Bogus type values 163 */ 164 ! #define TNULL PTR /* pointer to UNDEF */ 165 #define TVOID FTN /* function returning UNDEF (for void) */ 166 167 /* 168 --- 21,27 ---- 169 /* 170 * Bogus type values 171 */ 172 ! #define TNULL INCREF(MOETY) /* pointer to MOETY -- impossible type */ 173 #define TVOID FTN /* function returning UNDEF (for void) */ 174 175 /* 176 177 If you cannot fix your compiler, change the declaration in reply_proc() 178 from 'void *' to 'char *'. 179 180 BUGFIX FOR 4.2BSD COMPILER 181 182 Unpatched 4.2BSD compilers complain about valid C. You can make old 183 compilers happy by changing some voids to ints. However, the fix to 184 the 4.2 VAX compiler is as follows (to mip/trees.c): 185 186 *** trees.c.r1.1 Mon May 11 13:47:58 1987 187 --- trees.c.r1.2 Wed Jul 2 18:28:52 1986 188 *************** 189 *** 1247,1253 **** 190 if(o==CAST && mt1==0)return(TYPL+TYMATCH); 191 if( mt12 & MDBI ) return( TYPL+LVAL+TYMATCH ); 192 else if( (mt1&MENU)||(mt2&MENU) ) return( LVAL+NCVT+TYPL+PTMATCH+PUN ); 193 ! else if( mt12 == 0 ) break; 194 else if( mt1 & MPTR ) return( LVAL+PTMATCH+PUN ); 195 else if( mt12 & MPTI ) return( TYPL+LVAL+TYMATCH+PUN ); 196 break; 197 --- 1261,1269 ---- 198 if(o==CAST && mt1==0)return(TYPL+TYMATCH); 199 if( mt12 & MDBI ) return( TYPL+LVAL+TYMATCH ); 200 else if( (mt1&MENU)||(mt2&MENU) ) return( LVAL+NCVT+TYPL+PTMATCH+PUN ); 201 ! /* if right is TVOID and looks like a CALL, is not ok */ 202 ! else if (mt2 == 0 && (p->in.right->in.op == CALL || p->in.right->in.op == UNARY CALL)) 203 ! break; 204 else if( mt1 & MPTR ) return( LVAL+PTMATCH+PUN ); 205 else if( mt12 & MPTI ) return( TYPL+LVAL+TYMATCH+PUN ); 206 break; 207 208 WHAT'S NEW IN THIS RELEASE: RPCSRC 4.0 209 210 The previous release was RPCSRC 3.9. As with all previous releases, 211 this release is based directly on files from Sun Microsystem's 212 implementation. 213 214 Upgrade from RPCSRC 3.9 215 216 1) RPCSRC 4.0 upgrades RPCSRC 3.9. Improvements from SunOS 4.0 have 217 been integrated into this release. 218 219 Secure RPC (in the secure_rpc/ directory) 220 221 2) DES Authentication routines and programs are provided. 222 3) A new manual, "Secure NFS" is provided, which describes Secure RPC 223 and Secure NFS. 224 4) Skeleton routines and manual pages are provided which describe the 225 DES encryption procedures required by Secure RPC. HOWEVER, NO DES 226 ROUTINE IS PROVIDED. 227 228 New Functionality 229 230 5) rpcinfo can now be used to de-register services from the portmapper 231 which may have terminated abnormally. 232 6) A new client, rstat, is provided which queries the rstat_svc and 233 prints a status line similar to the one displayed by "uptime". 234
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