Networking Problem cont.

Hi all,

Thanks for all your quick responses. I believe I am
answering all of your questions with this post. I am
including my original message at the bottom. The
posted files are as they appear without comments.
Directory permissions of /etc are 755.

nsswitch.conf (permissions 644):
passwd: files
group: files
hosts: files dns
ipnodes: files
networks: files
protocols: files
rpc: files
ethers: files
netmasks: files
bootparams: files
publickey: files
netgroup: files
automount: files
aliases: files
services: files
sendmailvars: files
printers: user files
auth_attr: files
prof_attr: files
project: files

resolve.conf (permissions 644):
domain rtpnc.epa.gov
nameserver 134.67.xxx.xxx
nameserver 134.67.xxx.xxx
search rtpnc.epa.gov rtp.epa.gov epa.gov

hosts (symlink to /etc/inet/hosts;
permissions: link - 777, /etc/inet/hosts -
755):
127.0.0.1 localhost loghost
134.67.xxx.xxx legba.rtp.epa.gov legba loghost


Running "ifconfig -a" I get both a loopback device and
an ethernet device. The loopback has 127.0.0.1 and
the ethernet has the correct IP as well.

Also tried executing the command "truss -o /tmp/log -f
ping localhost". This output:
"truss: cannot trace set-id or unreadable object file
/usr/sbin/ping"
Permissions on /usr/sbin/ping are 4555.

As for running "netstat -l", it is saying that l is an
illegal option. I'm assuming that is a lowercase L.
If its not, let me know.

Michael Manring wrote:
Hi,

I'm running Solaris 9 118558-06 on a Sun Ultra10 and
have something really interesting going on. It all
started when I installed PostgreSQL on the machine.
After getting it fully installed, I went to try and
start the postgres server using the following
command:

/usr/local/pgsql/bin/postmaster -D
/usr/local/pgsql/data

Using this command (which is how the postgres manual
says to start it), I get the following errors:

LOG: could not translate host name "localhost",
service "5432" to address: DNS non-recoverable
failure
WARNING: could not create listen socket for
"localhost"
FATAL: could not create any TCP/IP sockets

Seeing this I proceeded to check everything I could
possibly think of. The contents of the hosts,
nsswitch.conf, and resolv.conf are all correct and
are
readable by everyone. I even checked the
permissions
on the ethernet and ip devices and they are
read/write
for everyone.

To further check this, I tried doing some simple
networking commands...thats when things got weird.
As
root, I can ping, nslookup, netstat...whatever. But
when I try it as a regular user, the netstat and
nslookup work perfectly, but the ping returns
"unknown
host" on anything I send it...even localhost.

I hope someone can help because three other UNIX
SA's
here were completely stumped. Any help is much
appreciated.
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