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From: paul@alantec.com (G. Paul Ziemba)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: monitoring a UPS from a serial port
Date: 12 Jan 93 22:35:39 GMT

dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer) writes:

[UPS has an output signal to indicate battery low...how does one
wire this up to a unix serial port?]

I've never done this, but here's how I would try to do it. I'd be
interested to hear if anyone else has tried the same scheme.

I would wire the UPS battery low signal to the CD (carrier detect)
input of a tty serial port such that the battery low signal would
make CD active. This might require a transistor and some resistors
(and possibly +5-12 volts) to get the appropriate voltage level
and do inversion, if necessary.

Then, I'd set up my /etc/ttytab (or equivalent) to run, instead of
getty, a program that attempted to open the tty port in the same
way getty does.

When CD becomes active, the open will complete, and then the program
can take whatever action is necessary (running shutdown, etc).

I realize that the above description might be slanted toward BSD, but
I imagine something similar could be done for sysv.

 ~!paul
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From: hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme)
Subject: Login Name Administration & Conventions
Organization: Pitney Bowes
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 21:15:56 GMT

I would like to get some feedback on what administrators 
are using for standards for UNIX login names and how
they are managing the logins in large networked environments.

Thanks.
From: derekmcl@hpqmoitz.sqf.hp.com (Derek McLauchlin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: ss spreadsheet package
Date: 6 Jan 93 11:18:01 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard LTD, South Queensferry, Scotland
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I am trying to locate a ninstall or ftp source for
the spreadsheet package sc, which I believe is a 
superset of the ss package.

Can anyone help? 

Thanks 



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From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: ss spreadsheet package
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:51:51 GMT

>I am trying to locate a ninstall or ftp source for
>the spreadsheet package sc, which I believe is a 
>superset of the ss package.

From the README file:

...
1) (FTP) jpd@usl.edu James Dugal
        pc.usl.edu      in the pub/unix directory

2) (UUCP) marc@dumbcat.sf.ca.us (Marco S Hyman)
    dumbcat Any ACU 9600 14157850194 "" \d\r in:--in: nuucp word: guest
    dumbcat Any ACU 2400 14157850194 "" \d\r in:-BREAK-in: nuucp word: guest
    dumbcat Any ACU 1200 14157850194 "" \d\r in:-BREAK-in:-BREAK-in: nuucp word: guest
  Note: dumbcat speaks 9600 at V.32 -- sorry, this is not a Telebit modem.
  (Grab dumbcat!~/INDEX for a complete list)

3) Sc6.16 was posted in comp.sources.misc, about Jun 4 1991, Volume 20, Issues
        035-041. There were then 4 patches: Sc6.16->Sc6.17, Sc6.17->Sc6.18,
        Sc6.18->Sc6.19, and Sc6.19->Sc6.21.

4) (FTP) Paul A Vixie <uunet!decwrl!vixie>
        gatekeeper.dec.com      in /pub/misc/sc-6.21.tar.Z
...
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From: ralf@fester.dell.com (Raymond La France - X2787)
Subject: Re: reminder script
Reply-To: ralf@ioscc.neosoft.com
Organization: IO SpecialistsConsulting
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 16:11:47 GMT

mikeg@asylum.tmc.edu (Michael Grabenstein) writes:


>	Ok, I need an easy little program that I can get cron
>to run that will remind me when to do various things. (Ie. change
>the tapes in the system X, go get pay check, etc...) I could
>write this, but I figure someone has already done it, so rather
                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>than re-inventing the wheel... Anyone have such a nifty script?
>It can be a csh, ksh, or sh script, or even a 'c' program.


You figured right.  See calendar(1) in your man pages.  Every UNIX
implementation I've ever seen has this reminder service included.

                                   RTFM!


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Is anyone using acmaint (from Purdue)
From: shea@hawk.cs.ukans.edu (Gary Shea)
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:20:17 GMT
Organization: University of Kansas Computer Science Dept

If you are, please let me know.  If you have tried and failed,
please let me know.  If you thought about it and tried something
else... please let me know.  If you are using any large-network
system management package (other than Athena's Moira/SMS) and having
a wonderful time with it... yeah, let me know.

Thanks, folks

	Gary
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Lawrence, Kansas
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.text.desktop
From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: wanted: document converters
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 12:32:14 GMT

jag@jeeves.trl.OZ.AU (John Gilmour) writes:


>I'd like to convert a number of different document formats to text
>formats on unix.  I'm interested in outputs from various PC packages:
>MSWORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, WK1, NOTEPAD.

>Are there any converters to RTF for these formats than run under
>unix?

>Are there any direct text converters for these packages that run under
>unix?

>Will consider public domain or comerical software.



>Thanks

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There are a number of tools for converting RTF to TeX and troff and troff to
TeX, I believe, on indri.primate.wisc.edu:pub/RTF and pub/troffcvt.  I have
not yet actually tried them.

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From: buck@siswat.hou.tx.us (Lester Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: How do you back up a terabyte?
Date: 10 Jan 93 04:37:14 GMT
Organization: Photon Graphics, Houston

In article <1993Jan4.125908.28013@cc.ic.ac.uk> cmaae47@imperial.ac.uk writes:
>I fear the "perfect, reliable backup" can no longer be achieved, shutting
>down applications is not appropriate if they provide real time response.
>Making snapshots of a file system can dump all closed files and a previous 
>version of open ones, or flag them as needing further attention. The 
>usefulness of such a backup set is doubtful. It also does not address file
>interdependence.
>
>You should give up the notion that there is such a thing as a verifyably
>correct filesystem backup and go for a "reliable enough backup set". This
>of course means that all serious applications have to cope with corrupted
>information, just as filesystems (and backup procedures) try to cope with
>disk failures.

No, reliable backups are achievable by several methods, though you
may not like the price.

1)  Applications log their transactions, so fuzzy backups can be
    reconciled on an application by application basis.

2)  Use a transactional filesystem.  If necessary, consider the
    data blocks and not just the file metadata as part of the
    transaction.

3)  Or go whole hog and build your filesystem on top of a database.
    Tandom's operating system takes this approach, and the filesystem
    is extremely reliable.


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme)
Subject: Need for NFS server utility to check for activity
Organization: Pitney Bowes
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 03:16:55 GMT

Does anyone know of a utility to check if client workstations are
accessing a NFS fileserver.  We would like to check if there is
any activity prior to shutting down the NFS fileserver.

Thanks.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Training users
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:04:49 GMT

My boss wants me to give a 2-3 hour training session on using Unix more
effectively.  I was wondering if any of you had already done such a thing and
had some notes you could email me?  My user's have been using Unix for about
1 year, half of them have workstations on their desks and the others use telnet.
Most of them don't seem to be willing to teach themselves, several still can't
seem to grasp the man command.  It's truly amazing how someone can ask me
a question, then watch as I type 'man foo', put my finger on the screen, and
read off the answer!  Yet these people will be back in a day or two with
another question that can be answered with RTFM!

Hmmm, maybe I can talk for an hour about online docs, the man command, reading
via phonetics, etc :-)

jim

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From: system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson))
Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
Organization: University of Toronto Chemistry Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 19:00:39 GMT

In article <B1GWBWBF@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) writes:
>Here at Haverford (and also at Bryn Mawr), we use an 8 letter login name
>consisting of the first initial and then 7 letters of the last name,
>overlaps are resolved either by a middle initial or something to that
>effect.

I do the same scheme, and there are ranges of uid/gid reserved for
central systems (which should then be used for the same person on all
systems where they have an account), and ranges for each group of
private workstations where the sysadmin can create local accounts/groups
without granting accidental access problems with NFS (assuming everyone
follows the conventions :-) ).
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From: eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver)
Subject: Re: Login Name Administration & Conventions
Organization: Haverford College Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 17:48:59 GMT

Well, in principle I agree that letting people call themselves what ever
they want is nice, there is a usefullness in making account names
meaningful:
	o mail is more easily sent since user names are standardized
	o you avoid needing to create policies about what sorts
		of names are acceptable.
	o in a _large_ setting with thousands of users, standardized
		names are easier to manage and remember.  Especially
		across different machines.  What if I was gonzo@ralph,
		but gonzo was already taken at the main machine...
		Then there might be confusion about mail sent
		to gonzo.

Some solutions include having a mail routing host which allows any
names you want and then forwards it to real names.

-Erik
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: johanb@joyce.esat.kuleuven.ac.be (Johan Buelens)
Subject: Re: Batch processing in Unix
Organization: K.U.Leuven, Belgium
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 10:53:07 GMT


we happily use DQS, which is free software; it does all a decent batch system
should do, and runs on unix machines from all the main vendors.

as the name (Distributed Queueing Software) implies, this is network software.

if you have special requirements for your batch software, i suggest you check
with DQS' main architect, tom green (green@ds9.scri.fsu.edu).

just a satisfied customer.   :-)


johan -b


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From: shepherd@cme.nist.gov (Kent Shepherd - pdesinc)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Mounting Ultrix 4.3 filesystem on RS6000: H E L P!!
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:25:50 GMT
Distribution: comp.unix.admin
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology

I am attempting to mount a filesystems from a DECStation 5000/200
running Ultrix 4.3 onto an IBM RS6000 running AIX 3.2.

When rebooting the RS6000, I get an error message:

	0513-056 Timeout waiting for command response

This message is displayed a couple of times before the login
prompt is given.  When I attempt to log into the system,
I am never prompted for a password.  All attempts to log in
are hung.  

When I remove the mount through smit and reboot the machine, all
works well and no error message is displayed.

Interestingly, I am able to mount numerous other filesystems
from other machines (Decstation 3100's, Sun 4's).

Has anyone seen this type of problem?

-Kent Shepherd
shepherd@trc.scra.org
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: bataller@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Erik Bataller)
Subject: text searching
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Distribution: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.sources.unix,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:20:56

Hello,
	This may sound silly but I looked around and 
couldn't find any info or code.  I want to search a 
subdirectory full of texts and directories with texts
for patterns. 

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Reading/writing VAX backup
From: jkp@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (Jens Petersohn)
Date: 10 Jan 93 15:20:50 EST
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[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.sun.misc ]
[ Author was Jens Petersohn ]
[ Posted on 10 Jan 93 15:20:25 EST ]

[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.sun.apps ]
[ Author was Jens Petersohn ]
[ Posted on 10 Jan 93 15:20:01 EST ]

[ Article crossposted from comp.sys.sun.admin ]
[ Author was Jens Petersohn ]
[ Posted on 10 Jan 93 15:19:39 EST ]

[ Article crossposted from alt.sys.sun ]
[ Author was Jens Petersohn ]
[ Posted on 10 Jan 93 15:18:55 EST ]

Is anyone out there aware of a UNIX utility that allows one to read/write
VAX backup tapes/files?

Jens


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From: djast@r-node.pci.on.ca (Dan Astoorian)
Subject: Consensys ptys
Organization: R-node Public Access Unix - 1 416 249 5366
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:09:20 GMT

Could someone show us how to reconfig Consensys (Unix/386 SVR4) in
order to support more pseudo terminals?

Currently we have 16 pseudo terminals configured by default, but
we would want to increase the number to say 32.  We had tried
changing entries in /etc/conf/sdevice.d/pts, /etc/conf/sdevice.d/ptm,
and /etc/conf/sdevice.d/ptem then we ran /etc/conf/bin/idmknod to
create the device files in /dev. And we finally ran /etc/conf/bin/idbuild
to rebuild the Unix kernel.  The pts device files were created,
but we still cannot open more than 16 pseudo terminals.

--                                 "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.  
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From: scoggin@delmarva.com (John K. Scoggin, Jr.)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Network-oriented backup systems for SCO and Sun systems
Date: 6 Jan 1993 14:57:32 GMT
Organization: Delmarva Power & Light Company
Distribution: world
Reply-To: scoggin@delmarva.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: mercury.delmarva.com

Is anyone aware of any available disk backup systems which can backup both Sun SPARC and SCO Unix systems across an IP network?  I am looking for something with a good human interface for restores that can also drive multiple Exabyte 10 and 120-cartridge automated tape libraries.

Thanks.

	- John
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From: jlu@cs.umr.edu ( Eric Jui-Lin Lu )
Subject: Question regarding incoming mail ....
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 21:38:52 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla


Hi *,

Hopefully, this is the right group....

We're running a lan of hosts with NFS.  One of the hosts is assigned
as mail server.  Each host handles its outgoing mails but the incoming
mails are recieved by the mail server.

Now the question:

When the incoming mail arrives, I assume it's handled by sendmail.cf
first.  But don't know which rule set is invoked first?  Or, I'm just
totally out of track.  Or, sendmail simply gets the user name from
the mail's destination addr and appends the mail.

Thanks in advance for your answer/comment.


  --Eric
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From: paul@hal.COM (Paul Sander)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Batch processing in Unix
Summary: QBATCH
Date: 7 Jan 93 22:06:43 GMT
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: parlo.hal.com

In article <1993Jan5.015324.22560@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>
barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au writes:
>Does anyone know of a decent batch processing software.

Alan Saunders wrote a free batch queue processor called QBATCH.  It was
posted to comp.sources.misc in volume 25 issues 20-25, with patches posted
in volume 25 issues 58-59 and volume 26 issues 70,85-86.  Take a look in
the anonymous FTP archives on gatekeeper or wuarchive to pick it up.
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From: john@elsouth.uucp (John White)
Subject: Help! How do I suppress vi tab substitution?
Summary: Request help suppressing tab substitution in vi. 8sp. = 1tab.
Keywords: vi tab hate
Organization: Electrical South Inc
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 20:20:24 GMT

	I'm in Unix Sys V Rel 3.0 Ver 4 and my vi editor has the
annoying habit of substituting 8 spaces for 1 tab. This is cute,
but since my indenting is based on 3 spaces and that doesn't
divide cleanly into 8, I'm often more annoyed than fond of this
"feature". Is there a way to tunr this off? I never had this problem
with the BSD or SunOS versions of vi. Is it Sys V dependent?

	Thanks, john (john%elsouth@concert.net)
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From: glenn@popeye.genie.uottawa.ca (Glenn Warnock 789-3225 Algonquin Associate)
Subject: Shell script to invoke su and mount CD-ROM
Originator: glenn@shamin.genie.uottawa.ca
Keywords: su, csh, cd-rom
Organization: MCRLab - University of Ottawa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 17:30:10 GMT


We would like to allow all users to mount CD-ROM on our netwrok. It seems the only way to do this is to use mount which requires super user provileges.

We are trying to write a script which will invoke su and mount the CD-ROM, but we cannot invoke su in the script and automatically give it the password.

Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

-- 
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Phone:	(613) 789-3225
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From: dean@world.std.com (Dean S Banfield)
Subject: Questions on timed daemon
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 04:09:47 GMT

Hi,

We are running SCO (3.2.2) and have recently had a call to offer netwide
time synch services on our (mostly Novell) Ethernet.  Novell can synch up
the DOS world to the Novell server, but that has left our UNIX box and
unix users un-synched.  

I fired up the timed daemon, expecting our FTP PC/TCP users to happily
be able to settime (I think that's the FTP module).  It didn't work, and
setting timed tracing on indicates that a !?LOOPBACK?! function has 
occurred to address 127.0.0.1 when the FTP time request is issued.  The
same LOOPBACK trace occurs when another product, the DOS newsreader TRUMPET,
tries to get the time for timestamping news postings with GMT.

As a program, timed seems fairly straghtforward, but the [SCO] man page
is pretty weak about possible calls to timed, and nowhere can I find
the LOOPBACK call mentioned.  What is going on here?

On another tack, even if I get this working, I'll have two separate universes:
Novell and TCP/IP, on different time synchs.  Is there any crossover possible
without buying some huge amount of TCP/IP from Novell or Novell support from
SCO?  

Thank you in advance for any insight you can lend to the problem.

-Dean
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