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From: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Meskes)
Subject: Help on telnet and ftp needed!
Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik  /  RWTH Aachen
Date: 23 Nov 92 11:32:30 GMT

I'm checking all telnet and ftp connections on my workstation. But using
tcp-wrapper I only get the following message in my syslog file:
... in.ftpd[..]: connect from <host> or <user@host>.
(Whether it's <host> or <user@host> depends on the host using RFC 931.)

What I really like to know is if this is a successful try to get into
my system, i.e. does the user know how to login? Has anyone an idea how to
do this check? I thought of running a program that checks the user of
in.ftpd or in.telnetd because in.ftpd changes user from root to the actual
one if the login is successful but in.telnetd doesn't.

Thanks in advance

  Michael

-- 
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RWTH-Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, D-W-5100 Aachen
Email: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
From: pgoujard@infocom.UUCP (Philippe Goujard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Automated accounting of pages printed to PostScript printers
Date: 22 Nov 92 23:14:38 GMT
Organization: INFOCOM Public Unix Server, +44 [0] 734 340055
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]

Carl Krasnor (krasnor@nimios.eng.mcmaster.ca) wrote:
: As many followers of this group have asked for before, we require software
: to automatically perform accounting of pages printed to a PostScript
: printer. It could be as simple as a running tally of pages printed for
: each user ID on a system.
: 

My notion of postscript may be a little bit rusty but if I remember
correctly only the "showpage" command in postscript actually prints a page.
You can send 500kb of graphic information but only when receiving the
showpage your page will be printed (and if the printer receives an
end-of-job (Ctrl D) before the showpage all the work is discarded).

So, working on that assumption can a simple "grep showpage | wc -l" sort of
script do the trick?

-- 
Philippe Goujard <Sysop>                   Email : pgoujard@infocom.UUCP
       Infocom : Public Usenet access in the UK - (0734) 34 00 55
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From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Re: Identifying user's remote IP address at login?
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 08:53:13 GMT

brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:

>why not write a program similar to this one.....and use getpeername

Won't work. Most systems use a telnet daemon that "insulates" the user
processes from the network stream so the user process can't do the
getpeername() call. What one *could* do if one is really brave is to
write a program that opens /dev/kmem and locates the telnetd process that
handles _your_ session, and then walk thru the files it has open looking for
the network connection socket... Or one could rewrite telnetd to either write
the IP number into the log files (that is what I did. And then I rewrote
"who", et al to use nameserver lookups for the IP numbers.) or have it write
the full domain name into a separate log file...

Either way requires root access.

/Peter


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Peter Eriksson                                              pen@lysator.liu.se
Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                I'm still bored. Flame me again.
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From: lie6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jonathan Lieberman)
Subject: NFS -- where do files really live?
Reply-To: lie6@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: The University of Chicago
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 03:54:32 GMT


The other day I was poking around and I noticed the the /etc/passwd was
very small. Since there are some 3000+ users this struck me as odd. less
/etc/passwd reveal that there were only some 10-20 users listed there.
All were admin type accounts.

Where do the files live?

NFS -- I am so confused...
-- 
____________________________________________________________________________
                            | People demand freedom of speech to make up 
Jonathan Lieberman          | for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
lie6@midway.uchicago.edu    |                        -Kierkegaard
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From: arthur@legba.ucd.ie (Arthur Green)
Subject: File archiving
Organization: University College Dublin
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 17:36:05 GMT

Greetings all -- does anyone know of a (preferably PD) file archiving 
system? I'm thinking of something similar to what Arcserve or Intel's 
Storage Express (for Netware) do. What I have in mind (not at all 
necessarily the best way to do it) is some process that will, when 
requested, remove a file, inform the owner and put it on a tape (probably
via some temporary directory). Anyone got any ideas/pointers?

If you're mailing a response don't use this address (arthur@legba.ucd.ie),
use arthur@cclana.ucd.ie instead.

 - Arthur Green
   University College Dublin Computing Services
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From: meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer)
Subject: How to echo " character in a csh script???
Organization: Geomatic a.s, Norway.
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 12:46:51 GMT

Subject line tells it all...

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From: johnk@harlqn.co.uk (John Kamp)
Subject: Off Site Tape Storage
Organization: Harlequin Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 12:47:49 GMT

I am currently looking into storing computer tapes off site for
disaster prevention. I am looking into all areas of storage; from
storing tapes at peoples houses, bank safety deposit boxs,
professional computer media storage etc..

I am curious to know what other people are doing to store computer
tapes off site. Do you use another office within the company, take
things home? What sort of cycle period do you use? I will summarize
any results on the net.

For those in the UK:

Basically I am having trouble finding people who provide a full
archived storage system and who can keep track of all that goes in/out
and can provide transport. Is there anyone out there that use's such a
company? The only one I can track down is Group 4 Securitas who
provide environmentally controlled storage, security, pickup/delivery
etc...

We are based in Barrington, about 7 miles out of Cambridge, so
somewhere local would be useful, but any information or contacts for
such a service anywhere in the UK would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

John Kamp
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 /.    \    Post: Harlequin LTD (UK)        Internet: johnk@harlqn.co.uk
 |~\___/    Barrington Hall, Barrington     Phone   : +44 223 872 522
 |   _|     Cambridge CB2 5RG, England      FAX     : +44 223 872 519
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From: sherwood@space.ualberta.ca (Sherwood Botsford)
Subject: Telnet to sun sparcstation failing
Organization: University Of Alberta, Edmonton Canada
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:32:26 GMT


Of late telnet on our sun is refusing connections. Rsh and rlogin also fail
instantly.  The problem is sporadic.  Ftp and finger work.

Rebooting fixes it. For a while.  Sometimes sending a HUP to inetd fixes it.  

This sun gets NIS service from another machine.  ypcat services | grep telnet
reports the following:

telnet	23/tcp

which is identical to the corresponding line in /etc/services.

In inetd.conf
telnet	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/etc/in.telnetd	in.telnetd


The sun is a SparcStation E currently running 4.0.3e

Pointers as to what else I need to look at?
Thanks
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=> Sherwood Botsford                   sherwood@space.ualberta.ca <= 
=> tel:403 492-3713                             fax: 403 492-4256 <=         
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From: sfreed@hydra.unm.edu (Steve Freed)
Subject: Re: Watcher
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 10:34:49 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Keywords: watcher

In article <2856@uswnvg.uswnvg.com> gbarnet@uswnvg.com (Gary Barnette) writes:

>Anybody out there using 'watcher' by Kenneth Ingham?

Yup.

>I'm having trouble getting it to compile. I seem to
>be missing the header file "y.tab.h". The #include
>statement is set up with double quotes for a local
>search so I must conclude that it is missing from
>the archive that I pulled down from uunet.

The copy from ariel.unm.edu /pub/unix/Watcher.tar.Z should be complete.
If it isn't, please send me email. Also, where on uunet did you
get it?  ..I'll look at it and see if I can get it replaced with a 
less damaged one. One of these days I am going to get a better version 
out the door, one that is a bit more configureable. I have most of the C code 
written but it,s getting kinda gross... to the point I am thinking
about re-writing it in perl.

>I tried to e-mail Mr. Ingham at the address in his
>README file but get a host unknown error.
>The address is ingham@charon.UNM.EDU

Both Mr. Ingham and charon have gone away. :-(




-- 

Steve.                    sfreed@ariel.unm.edu

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From: gpb@gpb-mac. (greg berryman )
Subject: Re: I can use DNS but now Sun doesn't read /etc/hosts
Organization: SPS
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:27:13 GMT

epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin) writes:
: 
: 
: Now, I have DNS working but my Sun won't resolve names in my /etc/hosts
: file.  It is important that I fix this because the name which is in my
: /etc/hosts file which is not on the NIS/DNS server that my machine queries
: is the name of my own machine!  Hence, I'm having alot of problems.
: 
: Is it possible to have my Sun read /etc/hosts AND use NIS/DNS?
: BTW, getting my host registered into the NIS server won't be an option
: for several months!

I had the same sort of problem on my Mac running A/UX.  Simple solution:
run your own named as a secondary nameserver.  Worked for me, might work
for you. 

Good Luck.


--
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From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: How to echo " character in a csh script???
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:42:22 GMT

meyer@geomatic.no (Harald Martens Meyer) writes:

>Subject line tells it all...

echo '"'

Try RTFM.
-- 
 "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
		-- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
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From: hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser)
Subject: Printing from SNA to TCP/IP hosted printer
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:08:54 GMT

Can someone tell me what options I have available, if any, that will
allow me to print from an SNA hosted IBM system to a TCP/IP hosted UNIX
printer?

Are there any packages available on the IBM that will support this (
sorta like wollongong for the VAX i guess).

As usual with this group, all ideas welcomed!!!

--
Horace
horace.bowser@amd.com

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From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Subject: Re: Hi
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 12:45:43 GMT

etnsaa@billingstad1ericsson.no (Stein Aarum) writes:
: We just installed a new HP Laserjet IIISi printer towards a SUN 470
: machine. We have a
: problem when we try to run duplex mode. If severals prints are in the
: queue the current
: job is not finished with a form feed leading to that next job starts on
: the following page.
: Sometimes on the back of last print job. Does anyone know how to solve
: this problem.
: This is for Postscript files.
: 
: Stein Aarum 
: 

Try adding the following lines to your printcap entry

        :ff=\f:\
        :tr=^D:

This tells the spooler what to use for a form feed character and also 
tells it to add a control-D to the end of the job.  Neither of these were
in the example printcap in the HPIIIsi manual.  I had to figure it out
the hard way.

--
Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer.
I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!

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From: csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu (Frank E. Doss)
Subject: Scheduling and Calander apps?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:35:58 GMT
Organization: Eastern Illinois University
Keywords: Mac, PC, RS/6000, AIX

We have a need for an easy-to-use scheduling and calandering app.  This
app must be accessable by Macs and PCs.  I would prefer to be able to have
the app run on an RS/6000.

If anyone has heard of something that may fit the description, please let
me know.  

Thanks,

csfed@eiu.edu

-- 
Frank E. Doss                            Academic Computing
csfed@ux1.cts.eiu.edu                    Eastern Illinois University
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From: eric@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Eric M. Schwartz)
Subject: Question on finger
Organization: Machine Intelligence Lab, University of Florida
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 17:58:46 GMT

I am having a problem with the finger command when used from a remote machine
to my machine.  If on a remote machine and a finger to my machine is attempted,
the result is just my machine address.  For example:

> finger eric@mil.ufl.edu

results in the following

> [mil.ufl.edu]
>

My /etc/passwd seems to be alright.  I don't know if this is relevant, but
my machine is a Silicon Graphics 4D/20 with a System V Release 3.2 operating
system.

Thanks for your assitance,

Eric
eric@mil.ufl.edu

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: georges@zeus.franklin.edu (Steven Lon George)
Subject: MPE, NS, TCP/IP
Organization: Franklin University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 17:27:59 GMT


Hello there.  What I am wondering relates to the HP UNIX environment.

I am applying for a job under this environment, in a networking
application. The job has some criteria that I am not sure what it means.
I am hoping I can find someone who does. Anyway, the line reads as
follows.?

Must have knowledge of MPE, NS, TCP/IP & Network Components and
Architecture.

What is MPE (Multiplatorm Environment?), and NS.  Has anyone ever heard
these acronyms before.  The interview is on Thursday, so you can answer
by mail at 'georges@zeus.franklin.edu'.  Please notice the plural 
georges with an s.  otherwise, someone else will get the message.

Thanks in advance.

Steve....
From: rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: does anyone have a disk x% full capture program???
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:03:57 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


Has anybody enhanced watcher to support LINE selection
I.E. I would like something like (for a df command):

 LINE 1 header1%k
 LINE 2 header2%k
 LINE 3-0 1 disk%k 2 3 kbytes_used%d 4 kbytes_free%d 5 percent_used%d

for the following df output:

  Filesystem   Total    kbytes   kbytes   %     
  node         kbytes   used     free     used  Mounted on
  /dev/rz6h     494294  412044   32821    93%   /nfs/news

Line 1 and line 2 would be header files and would be reported in the
watcher output. Lines 3 and on would be analyzed according to the
template given. This would allow the removal of the tails and greps
that I have to use now to filter the output of the commands.

Also allowing expressions in the spec of things to check would be very
useful as well. Given the output of nfstat -c:

  Client rpc:
  calls      badcalls   retrans    badxid     timeout    wait       newcred
  4340       1          84         2          84         0          0          

  LINE 3 1 calls%d 2 badcalls%d 3 retrans%d 4 badxid%d 5 timeout%d :

	 retrans/calls*100 0 1  # the percentage of retrans < 1%
	 badcalls/retrans*100 0 1 # same idea. 

Right now all of these numbers are being calculated using mawk, and
perl. Needless to say this is causing the watcher program and the
programs it runs to be influencing the load and other operations on
the machine it is watching.

-- John
From: yedidya@bimacs.BITNET (Yedidya Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: auto.direct yellow-pages map
Date: 18 Nov 92 13:26:06 GMT
Organization: Math department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, ISRAEL

In article <lgfsmdINN7va@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>In article 110@ferrari.dsp.hellnet.org, ori@ferrari.dsp.hellnet.org (Ori Chalak) writes:
>>
>>We use SunOS 4.1.1.
>>Whenever I update the "auto.direct" yellow pages map,
>>I need to reboot the clients for they will be able to "see" the change.
>>I tried reinvoke automount, but it didn't help. Only "fastboot" on client helps.

Direct maps were always a problem, even in Amd it is not implemented.
The same it is circumvented with Amd it can be made with Sun's
automounter.

Prepare a direct map, make it represent the mount point /a.direct and
leave symbolic links all over the system to point to it :-( Not a
perfect but should work.
--
Israel Yedidya,         Phone:  972-3-5318682 or 972-3-5318407/8
System Administrator,   Fax:    972-3-5353325
Math & CS Department,   Email:  yedidya@bimacs.cs.biu.ac.il
Bar-Ilan University,    Bitnet: yedidya@bimacs
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From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Subject: Can I use a 3M DC615HC in an archive 2150S?
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:56:19 GMT

I like to keep an eye on all the tapes that cross my path at work in
case I find something I can use.  In some cases I find someone sending
us stuff on DC6150 or DC6250 tapes which I can use in my Archive 2150
drive at home.  Nothing like free media from the ignorant! :)

What I want to know is: can I make use of a 3M DC615HC tape with my
Archive 2150S tape drive.  The tape says "IOTAMAT", but I don't recall
seeing that on the DC6[12]50.  Has anyone used these tapes reliably and
if so, what is their capacity?  I have used DC600A tapes before and got
120MB on them, but this is NOT highly recommended since it is putting
the media past its certified limits of 60MB.

Thanks.
-- 
Chuck Tomasi             |   "A munk a clone and a Ferengi
chuck@edsi.plexus.COM    |    decide to go bowling together..."
spool!cserver!edsi!chuck |             -Data "The Outrageous Okana"
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From: khm@powell.cs.jt.dk (Kurt Hangaard Marcussen)
Subject: Re: NFS -- where do files really live?
Organization: Jydsk TELEFON
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 10:09:16 GMT

lie6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jonathan Lieberman) writes:


>The other day I was poking around and I noticed the the /etc/passwd was
>very small. Since there are some 3000+ users this struck me as odd. less
>/etc/passwd reveal that there were only some 10-20 users listed there.
>All were admin type accounts.

>Where do the files live?

>NFS -- I am so confused...
>-- 
>____________________________________________________________________________
>                            | People demand freedom of speech to make up 
>Jonathan Lieberman          | for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
>lie6@midway.uchicago.edu    |                        -Kierkegaard

Hi there!

Your question is not strictly an NFS question. The thing is that
you're also running YP/NIS (Network Information System), which
means that essential files (like /etc/passwd) are only kept in
full at the so called NIS master. So you need to know what host
in your system is acting as NIS master. It should have the full
password file (at least the common part).

Regards from
Kurt
From: craa27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk ( Steve Holmes, Computer Centre )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Advice on Large UNIX installations please
Keywords: Resource Quotas
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:45:12 GMT
Reply-To: craa27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk
Organization: Strathclyde University Computer Centre.

At Strathclyde we are discussing the pros and cons of moving from a
many small discless machines type of setup to one with Xterminals
and a few large UNIX boxex to run applications.

We already run a DEC VMS central service which is laughingly referred
to as our "Mainframe" installation. It has the nice feature that
resources such as memory and cpu cycles can be limited for each user.

Our worry is that users of large packages may hog a large UNIX machine,
and we would like to be able to place quotas on the resources in a similar
fashion as on our VMS service. We would also like to be able to run a batch
queue in the evening and at weekends.

I would be very grateful if anybody could mail me details of facilities to
place quotas on users run time resources on any UNIX systems. 
Details of any existing batch systems would be equally gratefully recieved.

Many thanks in advance

Steve Holmes (Strathclyde Uni Computing Service)
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From: hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser)
Subject: Hit Man
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 21:05:10 GMT

Folks:

as much as it is against my UNIX religion, I am seriously contemplating
implementing a 'hit man' type procedure that checks for idle jobs on our
systems and removes them.  I don't have a problem with idle jobs per se
(and we're getting them in the +5days time-frames!).  However, when systems
develop problem and users are idle in Ingres or other locking processes,
it makes bringing down all associated processes and the system that much
more difficult and less clean.

Again, in general, I am against such policy (as it typicaly serves no need
save to piss of a few users).  And some idle time is valid.  But i've got
to consider my alternatives.

Are there existing shell-based routines out there that can determine the
idle processes and nuke them.  One that works with Ingres/Oracle processes
is preferable.  Barring that, even one with simple who, grep, awk, kill,
etc stuff would be good for starters (and saving me time).

Thanks for all ideas!

--
Horace
horace.bowser@amd.com

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From: hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme)
Subject: X-Windows Display Utility
Organization: Pitney Bowes
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:38:44 GMT

Is anyone aware of an X-Windows utility that will re-direct graphic
images files to X-Window client (or servers).


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