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From: torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer)
Subject: Printing PostScript from DWS to remote SunOS printer
Keywords: printcap lpr 
Reply-To: torstein@itek.norut.no (Torstein Meyer)
Organization: FORUT Informasjonsteknologi as
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 09:56:33 GMT

We are having problems printing PostScript files to a remote SunOS 4.1.1b attached printer. A -DPOSTSCRIPT is added on the spooling file. This is typically using DECwrite. Could this easily be filtered usiing printcap or by other means. Currently we are using a local script called lpr being executed before the lpr command, removing the -DPOSTSCRIPT option.

Do you know why the lpq +1 does not work on such a printer ?
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From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: xcd - what's up?
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:05:17 GMT

>I then proceeded to attempt to get the source code from gatekeeper, and it 
>isn't there.  Not only that but then the tarfile itself had disappeared.

	It's still on deucac.dec.com in pub/DEC. As to why it might
not be working for you, I don't know. It works great for me...

mjr.
From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Ultrix 4.3 vs Infoserver client...
Date: 8 Oct 92 23:49:06 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College

In article <1992Oct1.233357.16505@coe.montana.edu>
osyjm@cs.montana.edu (Jaye Mathisen) writes:

>   My rep doesn't know beans.  Nor does he know who to call.  (Section 5.2,
>   page 5-5 in the release notes).


Hmm, I can't find where in the manual it is documented that my rep
doesn't know beans. It should probably be there, but DEC documentation
being what it is... 1/2 8-).

-- John
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: rick@qucdnee.ee.queensu.ca
Subject: keeping users off of fileservers?
Organization: Queen's University EE Department
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:50:30 GMT


we have a lab of 24 decstation 5000/20s served by a ds5000/240 (ultrix
4.2a). we're serving the passwd database using BIND/Hesiod.

one of the things we'd like to do is prevent users from using the
server - it works pretty hard at the best of times and we want to keep
user processes off of it so as not to make things worse. does anyone
have an elegant solution that they might be willing to share? we've
thought about:

(a) just asking them to be good. this, of course, doesn't work. :-)

(b) change the server svc.conf so that it only considers the local
passwd file; remove all "unauthorized" users from /etc/passwd. this
has side effects (two password entries for the "authorized" users, for
example, one that works on the server and one that works on the clients).

(c) modify the /etc/passwd file on the server. in particular, 
append the passwd database to /etc/passwd on the server, but with
changes. for example:
 pimr:stuff:5001:500:Rick Pim,ELEC999:/home/ug4grad/pimr:/usr/local/bin/sorrysh
where /usr/local/bin/sorrysh is a "shell" that immediately logs the
user off. this works, with a couple of side effects:
  - yet another file has to be changed when users are added.
  - if a user has forgotten his password, changing it becomes somewhat less
    straightforward.

(d) on the server, modify svc.conf to obtain passwd from (local,yp)
instead of (local,bind). add lines something like 
+rick::0:0:::
+::0:0:::/usr/local/bin/sorrysh

to /etc/passwd. this should also work, but it (again) will result in a
set of duplicate entries for the "authorized" users.

does anyone have any elegant solutions or suggestions?

rp

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich)
Subject: Re: Excuse me, but isn't this 1992?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Penn State University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:02:02 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.074532.10940@vbohub.vbo.dec.com> kaiser@mammal.vbo.dec.com (Peter Kaiser) writes:

Pete> In article <Bvq94o.99y@cs.psu.edu>, ehrlich@colossus.cs.psu.edu
Pete> (Dan Ehrlich) flames...

Pete> Thank you for your thoughtful, well-considered remarks.  You
Pete> filed a QAR or somehow used the channels provided for just
Pete> such matters?

Pete> I thought not.

Pete> ___Pete

Pete> kaiser@uniriv.vbo.dec.com
Pete> +33 92.95.62.97 (DTN 828-6297)

Sorry Pete, but I don't think that asking my vendor for six year old
technology in this forum is unreasonable.  According to the SPD for Ultrix
4.2A (SPD 26.40.27) the version of NFS is v2.0.  Come on!  NFS 3.0 has been
out for years and NFS 4.0 is getting a bit old too.

Also, approximately eight weeks ago I submitted all of the neccessary
licenses and forms to get DSNlink so that a direct connection with the DEC
Ultrix support center would be possible and use of this channel of
communication with Digital would no longer be neccessary.  DSNlink still has
not arrived.  After a three day run around with the support center I am told
it will be here by this Friday (9 Oct 1992).  I let you know if it shows up.

You may feel free to call me a cynic, but from what I have seen curently
and in the past from DEC regarding a commitment to UNIX(tm) it seems to
be sorely lacking.


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 realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: beck@freia.inf.tu-dresden.de (Andre Beck)
Subject: Re: compose key and ALT key mixup ??
Keywords: Keymap xmodmap
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, TU Dresden, Germany.
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:08:25 GMT

In article <92280.151533STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, Tim Streater   (415) 926-2743 <STREATER@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> writes:
|> I have a new DECstation 5000/240, and now is the moment to configure it right.
|> I have installed 4.2C. When I run notepad, I find that instead of doing ALT/O
|> for open, or ALT/S for save, I do COMPOSE/O or COMPOSE/S. Well this in itself
|> doesn't bother me too much, but hitting COMPOSE puts the keyboard into compose
|> mode (whatever that means) and the next two or so characters get eaten. This is
|> very tedious. What do I have to do to make notepad and anything else use ALT
|> instead of COMPOSE?

The Problem is known. I had similiar ones with a lk401 keyboard and
DECwrite.

The best solution is the one supposed by VMS machines I know. They use the
Compose key as Alt and simultae compose via ALT/Space.

The workaround should be, start xev and look what keycode your compose
key produces. Now use xmodmap to modify it similiar to:

 keycode <numeric_composekeycode> = Alt_L

After this, try if you still reach compose mode via ALT/Space.

You can also make any other key a compose key by setting it to Multi_key.

It may be possible you also have to redo your modifiers, most applications
want mod1 = Alt_X, especially DECwrite.

My lk401 modifications are:

keycode 113 = Escape F11
clear mod1
clear mod2
add mod1 = Alt_L Alt_R
add mod2 = Mode_switch
 
Both xmodmap and xev should be in the unsupported X11 distribution by DEC.
You will get them on building X11R5, too. Using xmodmap, you could give any
key on the keyboard any meaning, but you cannot override the Composing
mechanism (I think). Btw, the compose key is GREAT.

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From: ron@bwunltd.wciu.edu (Ronald Becker Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Distribution: world
Subject: No hostname for remote uucp logins
Keywords: uucp,ultrix,uucico
Organization: Becker Williams UnLtd
Date: Tue,  6 Oct 92 16:26:46 +0100



	I am getting null system errors when I attmempt
to uucico to my host machine.  When I emulate a uucp login
instead of 'Shere=systemname' I only get 'Shere'from the
host.

	What's my problem?  I control both machines.


	Thanks MUCHO!


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From: rfrx@vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Is ULTRIX/SQL free after buying ULTRIX?
Date: 16 Oct 92 10:13:48 EDT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Cornell University

Is ULTRIX/SQL free after having bought ULTRIX?
I hear that ULTRIX/SQL will soon cease to be bundled with ULTRIX, but
I don't know if it has happned yet.  Anyone know about this?

RFRX@Vax5.cit.cornell.edu
Anthony K. Yan
SIDEV research group
From: thomson@zarda.macc.wisc.edu (Don Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: PC/NFS
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:06:39 GMT
Article-I.D.: zarda.THOMSON.92Oct12160639
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center

I'm trying to get the current version (4.0) of PC/NFS daemon, also known as
pcnfsd version 2.0 to run under Ultrix 4.2.  For this I need the ported
version of this daemon or the revised source code (pcnfsd is written to run
on the Sun OS).  The company creating PC/NFS - Sun Microsystems - has
indicated that such ports can be made and probably have been made.  If
anyone has ported pcnfsd to Ultrix I would appreciate hearing from them.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Faxmodem software for DS5000/200?
From: ejones@desire.wright.edu
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:09:48 EST
Organization: Wright State University 

We are going to buy some more V.32bis modems for our system and our
kicking around the idea of buying fax capability modems. Is there 
software available for the DECstation 5000/200 that will use the 
capabilities of these modems? Thanks for the info.

	Ed Jones
	Wright State University
	Signal Detection Lab
	Dept. Of Psychology
From: atmbnl@vax.oxford.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: lpd funny
Date: 9 Oct 92 16:18:01 GMT
Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620

Hi Folks

I have two postscript HP laser jet IIID printers on my unix machines (I've been
on about these before to this group, suffice to say, I no longer share with
VMS, and we don't dynamically queue at the server anymore).

In anycase, one is on /dev/tty16 and one on /dev/tty17. The former is on a
lantronix server port, the later a decserver200 port. Both printers work ok
(hardware-wise). However, lpd cannot drive the printer on /dev/tty16
(regardless of which physical printer or logical port - swapping printers
or using lcp to swap tty's doesn't make any difference). The only error message
in the error file is "cannot open /dev/tty16 ()" (or if I point tty17 at the
lantronix printer, then the error is tty17 of course)

So I thought to myself, ho, ho, i've got the lat port set up wrong ... but no,
I can actually cat postscript files to /dev/tty16 and they come out as you'd
expect, so I'm a bit confused. So is the bloke at DEC telephone support.

Anyone got any ideas?

Bryan Lawrence

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: PC/NFS
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 23:56:44 GMT


	There's a version of sources and whatnot for pcnfsd on decuac.dec.com
in pub/binaries/pcnfsd.tar.Z  In order to rebuild from scratch (if you don't
trust the versions I built or want to change them) you will also need the
RPC libraries in pub/sources/rpc4.0-ultrix.tar.Z

mjr.
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From: john@sekrit.WPI.EDU (John Stoffel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Excuse me, but isn't this 1992?
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:47:43
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
	<1992Oct8.023025.10148@cognos.com> <0WHRBSKB@cc.swarthmore.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: sekrit.wpi.edu
In-reply-to: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu's message of Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:12:19 GMT

>>>>> On Thu, 8 Oct 1992 04:12:19 GMT, hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai) said:

Eiji> maklinm@cognos.com (Max Maklin) writes:
> With MIPS & ALPHA,
> Ultrix, OSF/1, and NT, plethora of hardware, support AND service of all
> DEC's products (ever look at the size of Options catalog lately, well
> wait till ALPHA rolls out, going need a forklift! :)

Eiji> I personally think this is DEC's shortcoming.  Look at Sun.
Eiji> They stopped supporting Sun-3 hardware a long time ago.  They
Eiji> only support one OS (SunOS, uhh, Solaris) and one architecture
Eiji> (Sparc).  DEC supports godzillions of hardware and software.

Yes, but who is the bigger company?  

Eiji> Now, who has the biggest workstation market share?

That is true, but that is all SUN does.  DEC does everything from
making its own disk drives, to PCs (with someone elses parts), to
printers, to mainframes to massively parallel systems, etc...  

Eiji> There comes a time when it's a good idea to not support the
Eiji> PDP-11's and the VAX 11/780's anymore.  Yes, I know DEC doesn't
Eiji> sell 'em anymore but I vaguely remember Gail saying that DEC
Eiji> still supports PDP-11's.  Is that necessarily a good thing?

I was told that last year, DEC did about 1 Billion dollars in PDP-11
business.  And in the last six months or so that introduced a new
PDP-11/93 with support for upto 4 Mb of memory!  *grin*

Eiji> I wouldn't mind seeing DEC ditch sales & support for VMS, NT and
Eiji> the VAX architecture but I guess there are way too many people
Eiji> who'd still buy them to ditch them, I guess.

Good luck seeing DEC dump VMS.  From what I've been told, VMS is what
pays for Ultrix, since DEC really isn't making too much money off
workstations... But I could be wrong on this.  

If anyone has better numbers, etc, please correct me!

				John


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From: cannell@ed8217.ped.pto.ford.com (Larry Cannell)
Subject: DEC mail addresses
Organization: Powertrain Electronics, Ford Motor Co.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 12:00:06 GMT

Sometimes the addresses of the folks at DEC who post here are not reachable
via mail.  For instance, I tried to send mail to someone at zso.dec.com and
received an error from a mailer daemon along the way.

This isn't the first time its happened.  This also occurred when I tried
to reply to someone at CSC when they sent me mail.

--
Larry Cannell (cannell@ed8200.ped.pto.ford.com)
Powertrain Electronics
Ford Motor Company
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Bob Manson)
Subject: Re: Running daemons non-setuid root
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 17:18:01 GMT

>>Does anyone have any advice fori getting daemons to run as non-privileged
>>users?

One approach to the inetd problem would be to run the Berkeley 4.3
one, which does have support for specifying a username in the
inetd.conf file. We've been doing this for over a year now, without
problems. (Some porting required.)
							Bob
manson@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.aix
From: corbato@cosmic.physics.utah.edu (Steve Corbato)
Subject: Looking for rpc.etherd for Ultrix and/or AIX...
Followup-To: comp.unix.ultrix
Originator: corbato@cosmic.physics.utah.edu
Keywords: xnetload,ethernet monitoring
Organization: Cosmic Ray Physics Group, University of Utah
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 92 17:02:55 GMT

A naive question...

In order to run xnetload on either a Decstation (Ultrix 4.2A) or an
RS6000 (AIX 3.2), I need to find rpc.etherd for those OS's.  Does anyone
know a source for these?

Thanks...


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: schneide@gumby.cc.wmich.edu (Paul Schneidenbach)
Subject: problems with DECwrite 2.0
Organization: Western Michigan University Academic Computing Services
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 21:07:51 GMT


Hi,

I'm having problems getting DECwrite 2.0 to work on my workstation.
The workstation is a DECstation 5000/120 with the px graphics
card running Ultrix 4.2a using twm as the window manager and the
DEC Session Manager.  I am trying to run as a client off
an Ultrix file server NFS mounting the following files like the
manual says:
                                         
mickey:/usr/kits/CDR140  945798  236362  614857    28%   /usr/kits/CDR140
mickey:/usr/kits/CDR150  945798  236362  614857    28%   /usr/kits/CDR150
mickey:/usr/kits/DPD200  945798  236362  614857    28%   /usr/kits/DPD200
mickey:/usr/kits/LEX200  945798  236362  614857    28%   /usr/kits/LEX200

I ran the /usr/kits/DPD200/WRTBASE/INSTALL

Like the manual says.  Setld says I have the required Adobe Font Metric
UDRAFMnnn installed.

Following the previous steps a DECstation 5000/125 with the dumb graphics
card running Ultrix 4.2c using Motif has no problems running DECwrite 
either locally or remotely by setting the display back to his workstation.

The error message I get running either locally or remotely is :

~> decwrite
Unable to fetch icon literal large_product_bitmap
Unable to fetch icon literal small_product_bitmap

Any ideas on what might fix the problem?

Paul

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. "Buddy can you spare a clue?" Ranum)
Subject: Re: Running daemons non-setuid root
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Washington ULTRIX Resource Center
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:53:33 GMT

>Does anyone have any advice fori getting daemons to run as non-privileged
>users?

	I have a couple of startup files that I like to have run as other
people, but I don't really like this business of using 'su -c' since it
does things to I/O. So I use a really dopey little program called "do-as"
which (obviously) only works as root. You could put that in inetd.conf
and have it call finger as "nobody" or something like that.
	I use it in rc.local as follows:

/usr/local/etc/do-as ingres /etc/startingres            >/dev/console 2>&1

	and I just tested using it in inetd to make fingerd run as nobody...

finger stream tcp nowait /usr/local/etc/do-as    do-as nobody /usr/etc/fingerd

	Run like this you can't read my .plan unless it's world readable.

mjr.

/* do-as.c */
#include	<stdio.h>
#include	<pwd.h>

main(ac,av)
int	ac;
char	*av[];
{
	struct	passwd	*poo;

	if(ac < 3) {
		fprintf(stderr,"usage: do-as userid commands\n");
		exit(1);
	}
	if((poo = getpwnam(av[1])) == (struct passwd *)0) {
		fprintf(stderr,"don't know any user %sa\n",av[0]);
		exit(1);
	}
	if(setuid(poo->pw_uid)) {
		perror("setuid");
		exit(1);
	}
	execv(av[2],&av[2]);
	perror("Exec");
	exit(1);
}
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
From: macika@emunix.emich.edu (Dominic Macika)
Subject: Mail aliases - includes - in V4.2
Organization: Eastern Michigan University
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 00:28:46 GMT

Is it possible to use include statements in the global mail aliases
file (/etc/aliases)?  According to a Berkeley unix book I have,
the format on that machine is:

aliasname: :include:/usr/students/account/includefile

but my sysadmin has informed me that this format (along with some
variations involving ;, ' and ") did not work.  Manuals are next
to impossible to find at this university, unfortunately, so I have
come to you, hoping someone can tell me if it is possible, and if
so, what is the correct syntax.  

Any and all responses welcome, thanks in advance, etc, etc.
 

-- 

Dominic Macika

"All we are saying is give peace a chance"
			John Lennon
From: davet@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Dave Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Server for X11R5 / PX ?
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:27:35 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.Bvt9q2.GHB
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana

I've been attempting to get an X11R5 server running on my DECstation 5000/125.
The mit distrubtion claims that it supports the MX and CX displays for
the 5000.  Unfortunately, I have a PX display.  When I run the
X server, I get a "no screens found" error message and the X server terminates.
Is there a port to the PX display?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks,
Dave Thompson

National Center for Supercomputing Applications |  605 E Springfield Ave
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign      |  Champaign IL 61820
Email:  davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu                     |  (217) 244-1957

PS I see that this issue might have recently been brought up.... unfortunately,
my news repository no longer has the relevent notes.  sorry if this is a 
repeat.