--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00013 Date: 11/12/95 From: RAY BACON Time: 10:51pm \/To: LAWRENCE GARVIN (Read 11 times) Subj: Brand Hello Lawrence! Saturday November 11 1995, Lawrence Garvin writes to Ray Bacon: LG> Ray Bacon said in a message to All: RB>> Ok, for all you super SCO Unix Guru's out there. Here is a RB>> good one for you to ponder. RB>> Problem: SCO Unix ver 3.2.4.2 Unlimited Users must be Branded RB>> with an SCO Unix 3.2.4.2 limited 64 user license. LG> Hmmm, I wasn't aware any such beast even existed. RB>> To date after giving the Brand command with the new 16 user LG> Did you mean the 64 user serial #/activation key? No, exactly what I said, you must first start with the 16 user Base Serial Number and Activation key, then apply the upgrade license after you have done the first. This is just a 1 disk install to upgrade to 64 users. RB>> base serial # and activation key the system craters and for RB>> the most part is completely useless. LG> Ya got me on this one, Ray. Still looking for someone that may have an answer for this or I am going to be forced to do a complete rebuild on a customers system. Not looking forward to this one. Ray --- GoldED 2.40 * Origin: Cobra BBS (713)996-8762 LOD Moderator (1:106/993) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00014 Date: 11/08/95 From: DAVID KIRSCHBAUM Time: 07:25am \/To: ALL (Read 11 times) Subj: Firewalls If anyone has any comments (or pointers to interesting articles or archives or utilities on the Internet) about Unix system firewalls ... I just got some advertising literature and articles from a commercial company that sells "Gauntlet", and am interested in more information about this and other products and solutions. (I'll be chasing down a bunch of pointers in the literature I received, but am always interested in any others.) Thanks in advance, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall kirschd@hq.ljl.com ... Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle rules. Probably. --- PPoint 1.80 * Origin: Toad Hall (1:3634/2.4) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00015 Date: 11/10/95 From: LAWRENCE GARVIN Time: 08:45am \/To: BOB HABERKOST (Read 11 times) Subj: 3b2 getting better Bob Haberkost said in a message to Lawrence Garvin: BH> Let me first thank you, and all others who've offered their BH> help, for your efforts in getting my cast-off 3b2 back in BH> service. You're quite welcome. It is, after all, why we are here. BH> The three-blinks diagnostic light signal was, in fact, some BH> problem with the ROM set, as a replacement set obtained from a BH> friend of mine has resolved the problem, and I've loaded the BH> operating system and the one application, Informix, on the BH> system. Excellent! BH> I've discovered that the cable labels (viz: This Side Up) can't BH> be trusted, and a look at the primary stripe in both the XM and BH> 3b2 cabinets showed that I needed to connect the XM's drive BH> cables upside-down, so I have a system with 144MB of storage, BH> and 2MB ram, as well as an apparently non-functional CTC system BH> (drive runs, but won't format the one cassette, a 3M DV6250 BH> 250MB drive, which is certainly a lot larger than what the BH> document says works in the drive - 25MB....is this cartridge BH> just simply the wrong kind?). Very likely. The primary problem I would expect has to do with the coercivity of the media itself. Much like the problems with swapping 360K floppy media and 1.2MB floppy media. The 360K media just isn't built to be written to by a 1.2MB drive. I suspect the same condition occurs with older tape drives trying to write to newer large volume tapes. The large volume media has a significantly different level of coercivity and sensitivity, and the older drives just won't hack it. Good luck finding that 25MB cartridge though! Although you might attempt to use a DC600 (60MB) cartridge. While I suspect you may encounter similar problems, at least your odds may be a bit more in your favor. BH> My problem, now, may be an inter-related one. I can't get BH> Informix to run, in spite of what appears to be a legal key BH> card and acceptance of the key on installation. When starting BH> isql, I get a (sh?) message that BH> isql: cannot execute Check the permissions on the directories and executable files. BH> Now, it occurs to me that, since the machine had 4MB RAM BH> installed (through a Concurrent Technologies add-in card called BH> "Megamem Mezzanine") it may well require 4MB to run. No BH> indication of that in the Informix docs, though. I suspect you -will- have problems -running- Informix on a 2MB machine, and that could also be the cause of the above error. The 3b2 kernel itself averages about 500-600K in size depending on installed hardware. Add the overhead for buffers, and it's debatable that enough memory even exists to load a user shell, much less a RDBMS. BH> Can the one bad RAM chip (there are 72 of them) be told from BH> these messages? Theoretically; however, I lack the engineering knowledge to do so. BH> And is an M41256DP-17B (clearly a 256kbit chip) still BH> available? Possibly. BH> And, finally, will this make any difference to Informix, or do BH> I have another problem (like an expired license, or incomplete BH> copy) that means I'll have to find another worthwhile unix BH> application to make having a 3b2 a useful possession? I'd be more inclined to think that the memory problems are what is annoying Informix. I do know that it will run on a 4MB system, as we have been doing so for some 12-odd years now. BH> Thanks, as always, for your kind and astute assistance. And, as always, you are quite welcome. Hope it helps. lawrence@garvin.hd.co.harris.tx.us --- * Origin: (C)1995 | Lawrence Garvin | Houston, Texas (1:106/6018) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00016 Date: 11/10/95 From: LAWRENCE GARVIN Time: 09:12am \/To: ALLAN WHITWORTH (Read 11 times) Subj: Need Help LINUX Allan Whitworth said in a message to Moderator: MO>Dan, your Linux technical support questions would be better directed at he MO>LINUX echo, where there are persons quite well qualified to assist you. MO>Thankyou for your cooperation. AW> Can you refer me to a LINUX echo or a LINUX internet address? The LINUX echo is available on the Z1 Echomail Backbone and from Planet Connect. It is also available from both of my nodes 106/6018 and 106/2223. lawrence@garvin.hd.co.harris.tx.us --- * Origin: (C)1995 | Lawrence Garvin | Houston, Texas (1:106/6018) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00017 Date: 11/10/95 From: TRISTAN YOUNG Time: 9:05am \/To: LAWRENCE GARVIN (Read 11 times) Subj: Re: Unix Box On Tue 7-Nov-1995 11:24p, Lawrence Garvin said to Tristan Young: LG> You're new around here right. I know so cuz I've never seen your name LG> before. Sorry for my response, eh? Yes, I am new to this echo, and I replied at like, 4am or something like that - I'm never in my right mind at that time of the day. :) LG> Possibly. Unfortunately, what you mistook as a forked-tongue remark is the LG> god's honest truth. Your system isn't worth squat. Sorry. But that's LG> reality. I wouldn't doubt it. -=# Impact tyoung@scuz.jammys.net (613)521-6466 Scuzsoft Programming =- --- CNet/3 * Origin: The Tower Of Scuz @ (613)521-6466 (3 Lines) (1:163/347) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00018 Date: 11/10/95 From: DAVE RATCLIFFE Time: 09:56pm \/To: LAWRENCE GARVIN (Read 11 times) Subj: Re: JAVA In article <530_9511092322@mdtnbbs.com>, Lawrence.Garvin@f6018.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Lawrence Garvin) writes: - Dave Ratcliffe said in a message to Lawrence Garvin: - DR> Lawrence.Garvin@f6018.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Lawrence Garvin) writes: - DR> - The beta version of the Netscape browser is available with - DR> - Java capabilities built in; however, the platforms it is - DR> - available for are limited and Windows ain't one of 'em. - - DR> Whoops: - - DR> -rw-r--r-- 1 root other 2641439 Oct 19 18:42 - DR> n32e20b1j.exe - - Thanks for the update, Dave. I'll go get it today! Good luck. As with all betas it's a tad on the buggy side and has already brought my Win95 box to it's knees twice :) -- Dave Ratcliffe 1:270/210 dave@frackit.com Harrisburg, Pa. dave.ratcliffe@f210.n270.z1.fidonet.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- # Origin frackit -*- The Unix/Usenet side of the tracks --- * Origin: FidoNet <-> InterNet Gateway via frackit.com (1:270/210) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00019 Date: 11/04/95 From: BARRY PEARCE Time: 10:03am \/To: JESSY KAZANDJIEV (Read 11 times) Subj: best unix commands :) Hi Jessy, > Sometimes just seeing who is on the system is a challenge > in itself. The best way is to write your own version of who in > C, but if you can't do that then this may be of some help to > you: fatal flaw in who really....I can get interactive shells on a UNIX box and the only way I can be detected is via ps. Who is very easy to screw up. So easy that you can do it via kill. admittedly some root access is reqd for the above but possible all the same. > ##by the way, the list of users logged on is kept in the file / > etc/utmp. If you want to write your own personalised version of > who in C, you now know where to look!### ever thought how the entries got there? > will notice that they never change in size. They are called > character specific files, and are really the link between the actually the term is character device. > So just say I wanted to log off a user, then I would send a > clear screen command (usually ctrl l), followed by "exit" > followed by a carriage return, followed by the transmit screen > code. Using ths technique you can wipe peoples directories or > anything. My favourite is to set open access on all their files > and directories so I can peruse them for deletion etc at my own > leisure). This really isnt the sort of thing that should be here in an international echo...its very sad that you have nothing better to do with your time... > Then clear the screen so they dont see what you just typed. what about shell histories....cripes! Very niave this. > typed from the shell. Try things like Ctrl-h (this is the code > for the delete key). Just a file with the name Ctrl-h would not stty erase ^N rm -f xxx^h oh easy easy easy. > be deleteable from the shell, unless you used wildcards. So, > make it a nice long series of characters, so that to delete the > file, the user has no choice but to individually copy all his or use ls | od -cx to get the filename sequence and then write a C program to delete it....oh dear 3 lines of C....hmm.. > files elsewhere, then delete everything in his directory, and > then copy all his files back.....this is one of my > favourites..gets em every time! oh such fun! ho ho. --- FMail 0.98 * Origin: (2:252/18.27) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00020 Date: 11/01/95 From: IAIN HIBBERT Time: 10:02pm \/To: ALL (Read 11 times) Subj: Terminal Server/Print Station (Was Re: U22:02:5511/01/95 <1498671559@p1.f100.n255.z1.fidonet.ftn> From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert) William Burrow writes: > Terminal server: Dedicated hardware that has many serial ports OUT and one > connection TO the computer. Allows many MODEMS or terminals to be connected to > one computer with little load on the computer. Some terminal servers can > service up to 128 simultaneous connections or more. ah, now here is something I might be interested in learning about.. I have a Sparc 1 machine, it has 2 serial ports (unbuffered, very slow) and ethernet built in.. I also have a printer and a modem that I would like to attach (the modem is attached, but its not really going fast enough) one option is to get a fast serial/parallel card, the other seems to be to get an external device that will talk ethernet and serial/parallel.. how would this work? -- ]ain --- ifmail v.2.8c * Origin: The Bath Room (2:250/320.33@fidonet) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 176 UNIX Ref: CFI00021 Date: 11/01/95 From: IAIN HIBBERT Time: 10:09pm \/To: ALL (Read 11 times) Subj: Re: Which mail to use? From: plunky@skate.demon.co.uk (Iain Hibbert) Lawrence Garvin writes: > Although I highly doubt that any narcisstic nationalized attitudes are > responsible for the fact that, in general, the 3-letter domains are not issued > internationally. Perhaps it has something to do with NAFTA. actually, they are issued anywhere.. they are not and have never been USA specific. > It is sad that you apparently missed the whole point of my restricted root.dom > file in the first place. Might I suggest it was Canadian-nationalism in > defensive mode that got you all bent out of shape in the first place? I still miss the point of your restrictions. I believe they have no point except to elevate your percieved status above that of the users of the system you administrate ]ain --- ifmail v.2.8c * Origin: The Bath Room (2:250/320.33@fidonet)