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Corrado A. Agusto (cagusto@netservice.peg.it)
Wed, 04 Sep 96 13:39:07 +0100 

From: "Corrado A. Agusto" <cagusto@netservice.peg.it>
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 96 13:39:07 +0100
Subject: Re: [mSQL] ...from scratch
Message-Id: <1370265144-15195589@netservice.peg.it>

On Tue, 03 Sep 96 21:57:14 -0400, Mark H. James wrote:

>On Tue, 03 Sep 96 15:26:14 +0100, Corrado A. Agusto wrote:
>
>>Hi all,
>>I hope you will excuse me for my poor english, and my deep ignorance, too. :-)
>>I've installed msql v 1.1.16 for os/2. Once I've started the server, I'm unable to connect with the clients included with the package.
>>I.e. Every time I run msqlAdm I always get the same message :
>>
>>Connect: Message file not found.
>>ERROR : can't connect to MSQL server on localhost (localhost)
>>
>>I installed it on a p133, 16mb, hpfs, warp connect + fp17.
>>
>>In config.sys I added these lines :
>>
>>SET HOSTNAME=localhost
>>SET USE_HOSTS_FIRST=1
>>SET USER=CORRADO.
>>
>>and , of course :
>>
>>RUN=IFCONFIG.EXE LO 127.0.0.1.
>>
>>In dir \mptn\etc, in file HOSTS :
>>
>>127.0.0.1 localhost
>>
>
>I think this may be a problem with your loopback setup. From a
>command prompt, can you ping localhost?
>
>The only things I see in your setup that are different than mine are:
>
>
>Also, I do not have the hostname set to localhost. That is a little
>unusual, and could cause a problem perhaps.
>
>
>Mark H. James | markj@3cat.com
>Three Cat Software | 73266.2400@compuserve.com
>
Well, soon after posting my earlier message, I discovered the problem.
In fact, I launched msql before closing my internet connection, and It worked fine !
The point was that Sockets were not configured in mpts.After this, everything was going good.

> in the IFCONFIG line, in mine the lo is lowercase. I don't know if
>this is case-sensitive, but you might try changing it.

Yes, in "ifconfig" instruction, lo is case-sensitive.
After using cfgsort, that transform all lines in config.sys upper-case,
the process didn't started :-(

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