--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00005 Date: 06/26/95 From: BARRY PEARCE Time: 11:50am \/To: THOMAS SCHENK (Read 13 times) Subj: UNIX on PC Hi Thomas, > shell scripts for customers and being able to do this at home as > well as at work is one of the reasons I have Unix at home. Ah, but are you paid for this as well??? no ??? gosh you must *love* the company you work for.... > As for most Unix software being free, although there is a large > amount of freely available software for Unix, I think that most > people who administer and purchase software for Unix machines > would disagree. Commercial software on Unix is in most cases > outrageously priced due to the fact that you usually have to pay > for a multiuser license. hmm... So does PC s/w (ie MS Office MLP). I must agree it is far more expensive though... I don't know why. I develop on UNIX and find this to be a peculiar state of affairs. Regards, Internet: 100443.3631@compuserve.com Barry Pearce barry@sapient.demon.co.uk Fidonet : 2:252/18.27 (Faulty Towers) --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: (2:252/18.27) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00006 Date: 06/26/95 From: BARRY PEARCE Time: 12:03pm \/To: NIGEL HORNE (Read 13 times) Subj: Troublesome file Hi Nigel, > I that doesn't work try > /etc/unlink -p Pardon??? Do you understand what /etc/unlink does???? For all folks out there who see this and think this is a good idea please read the following... (no im not condeming this - it is just a *very*very*very* last resort. > if that doesn't work you'll need to write a program. thats right write the program before /etc/unlink ) /etc/unlink does just that it merely removes the directory entry. This results in a inode that is allocated but no longer attached to anything. When fsck is next run on the filesystem this will be salvaged and placed in lost+found. I have *never* found a need to use /etc/unlink; a good bit of C code (4 lines) works *every* time. If you weren't aware about this I hope this provides an insight. If you were then I cannot understand your recommendation for it over that of a small C program. Regards, Internet: 100443.3631@compuserve.com Barry Pearce barry@sapient.demon.co.uk Fidonet : 2:252/18.27 (Faulty Towers) --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: (2:252/18.27) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00007 Date: 06/26/95 From: BARRY PEARCE Time: 12:05pm \/To: CHRIS MCNABB (Read 13 times) Subj: 8088 / 8086 *NIX???? Hi Chris, > Both MicroSoft and IBM had 8086 versions of Unix back in the > mid-80's. > MicroSoft had Xenix and IBM had PC/IX. I know they are probably AFAIK The Xenix was bought by SCO and became SCO Xenix. whether or not it can be obtained for the above is another matter. Sorry I cant help further...SCO might? Regards, Internet: 100443.3631@compuserve.com Barry Pearce barry@sapient.demon.co.uk Fidonet : 2:252/18.27 (Faulty Towers) --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: (2:252/18.27) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00008 Date: 06/26/95 From: BARRY PEARCE Time: 12:18pm \/To: BRENDON MEYER (Read 13 times) Subj: UNDELETE FOR UNIX Hi Brendon, > TL>Why in the world would ANYONE configure the delete key as an abort > TL>sequence? That's what Ctrl-C is for! I take it this guy came from a DOS environment... > Would have been easily fixed if you had issued a: > stty intr ^C > before starting. true. > Then the CTRL-C causes the interrupt - just like DOS cough, hiss>. Feelings run deep eh?? > Personally, I am biased towards using the DEL key as the > interrupt key, but it is really a matter of personal preference. very true again. A lot of unix systems use either DEL or CTRL-C. depends on the sysadm's preferences as much as the defaults shipped on the O/S. I prefer DEL but will work with CTRL-C if i have to.... Regards, Internet: 100443.3631@compuserve.com Barry Pearce barry@sapient.demon.co.uk Fidonet : 2:252/18.27 (Faulty Towers) --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: (2:252/18.27) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00009 Date: 06/26/95 From: BARRY PEARCE Time: 12:25pm \/To: DRAHOS MALOTA (Read 13 times) Subj: opened file Hi Drahos, > How can I find out, if any process has file XXXXXX still open ?? > program fuser does it, but how ?? > And unfortunately fuser is not present on all machines. Aha. an old question. Ive not actually come up with the perfect answer but here goes. You need to find out which slot in the process table that the process is in. This then gets crossed referenced to the file table. Checking each file the process has open you need to again cross-reference into the open inode table or gnode/vnode (depending on if your system uses virtual/generic inodes) and from there you can read the inode number. this can then be checked against ls -i... OK? How to code in C.... well ive tried this and really need a UNIX source license to sort this out.... I dont understand enough about these tables... The process chain didnt seem to follow when i read it via /etc/kmem.. oh well... How to find the process tables??? I can explain but I could be wrong ... let me know if you want this.. One method to use is crash... but you need root access for this....It is a long trek and differs on different machines... Does this help??? TTFN, Internet: 100443.3631@compuserve.com Barry Pearce barry@sapient.demon.co.uk Fidonet : 2:252/18.27 (Faulty Towers) --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: (2:252/18.27) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00010 Date: 06/26/95 From: ANTHONY BARLOW Time: 12:50am \/To: ANDREW GRIMSBY (Read 13 times) Subj: Troublesome file Hi > HT> Can anyone suggest a quick solution of removing a file called: -p ? > HT> I've tried every combination of rm command options but rm just says > HT> that '-p' is not a valid switch. > IB> > I know someone who created a file called "*" (no quotes). > And what did he do ? > Yes rm * Bye, bye, dir contents. Wouldn't it be a good idea to alias rm * as rm -i or place a file -i in the dirs :-) Regards, Anthony --- WarpDrive * Origin: Warp Drive BBS (01772)-629586 28K8 (2:250/145) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00011 Date: 06/03/95 From: JAVIER MARTIN RUEDA Time: 02:21am \/To: ALL (Read 13 times) Subj: rpc.lockd and rpc.plumd From: javier@ozono.p7.f14.n341.z2.fidonet.org (Javier Martin Rueda) Hi. I'm searching for the sources of rpc.lockd and rpc.plumd. The latter is a license server for PC-NFS. Actually, I have the rpcgen file for plumd, but nothing for lockd. Any information is appreciated. :-) --- ifmail v.2.7 * Origin: La ultima pregunta (2:341/14.7@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00012 Date: 06/03/95 From: JAVIER MARTIN RUEDA Time: 12:44am \/To: ALL (Read 13 times) Subj: solaris 2.4 for intel From: javier@ozono.p7.f14.n341.z2.fidonet.org (Javier Martin Rueda) I've seen quite an interesting offer of Solaris 2.4 for Intel. What I'd like to know is how much stable and reliable it is, as I intend to use it on a server system (mainly, NFS). I've seen Solaris for SPARC since 2.0, and it really had stability problems. Some utilities even dumped core randomly. Things have been improving with each version, but until Solaris 2.3 or 2.4, the system was not really fine tuned (and still there are some things left). Solaris 2.4 for Intel is the first version for Intel, if I'm right. So, I don't know if it will work well, or there will be all sort of problems until Solaris 2.6 or 2.7 for Intel is released. --- ifmail v.2.7 * Origin: La ultima pregunta (2:341/14.7@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00013 Date: 06/28/95 From: BRUCE BUSH Time: 06:08pm \/To: BARRIE HIERN (Read 13 times) Subj: Re: Mounting Floppy Drives... In a message of 26 Jun 95 Barrie Hiern wrote to ALL: BH> Hello ALL! BH> I'm a "newbie" to running Uni* at home and have installed FreeBSD on BH> one of the HD's. The big question is, how do I get it to access the BH> floppy drives??? Have tried just about every variation of the mount BH> command that exists!!!, that I'm aware of. ;-) Floppy drives are generally handled like tape drives. You can't mount them, you can tar/cpio onto/off of them. If your floppy raw device is /dev/rflop (don't know BSD convention for floppies) tar to them like so: cd $HOME tar cvf /dev/rflop . # This will archive your home directory To restore, reload the same floppy and: cd $HOME tar xvf /dev/rflop # This will restore your home dir from floppy That's the only use I know of for floppies on a Unix box, though now that I've spoken up, thousands will rush in to correct me >:|. The man page for tar will give you all the backup options. Good Luck, Bruce ... "The depths of human imbecility have not yet been plumbed." - H. Ellis --- Spot 1.3 #227 * Origin: In the shadow of the Palace (1:202/1312.1) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CAZ00014 Date: 06/27/95 From: KEN BRIDGES Time: 06:09am \/To: ALL (Read 13 times) Subj: Re: Fax Software for Unix From: kb@squid.org (Ken Bridges) Mark Enfinger (Mark.Enfinger@f12.n360.z1.fidonet.org) wrote: : Does anyone know of the existence of fax software for unix/aix operating : system? If so, please leave mail stating company name, and how to reach : company. Any help will be greatly appreciated! There's mgetty+sendfax, I use it here to as my getty on my serial port to call login or my fido mailer, it work's great. I haven't used it for faxes but it is suppsosed to do the trick, and best of all it's well documented. Ken --- ifmail v.2.8 * Origin: squid.org (1:325/617)