From: afx@ibm.de (Andreas Siegert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,bit.listserv.aix-l
Subject: AIXTIPS NEWS 92326
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:01:07 GMT
Reply-To: afx@ibm.de
Followup-To: comp.unix.aix
Organization: IBM AIX Field Support Center, Munich

This is AIXTIPS NEWS for customers released at Tue the 06. Oct 1992.

Table of contents:
92326. Yes! you can use a 32x as a /usr client!
92337. X.desktop Cookbook
92343. HOTW: Snoop on running program - Use the watch command
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Note:
The information in this document has not been submitted to any formal IBM test
or review and is distributed on an "as is" basis without any warranty either
expressed or implied. The use of this information is a customer responsibility
and customers attempting to adapt these techniques to their own environment
do so at their own risk.

Some of the tips might reference internal TOOLS disks for more information.
Please contact your IBM representative if you need those documents.

Your AIXTIPS Team 		              Internet: aixtips@ibm.de
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>92326. Yes! you can use a 32x as a /usr client!

I claimed that you can't run a /usr client with 32x machines in tip 92303.
That was wrong! I apologize for the misinformation.

Just use the standard steps for installing a /usr  client. That should do it.

Matt Cronk posted the following explanation on comp.unix.aix which should give
you more details: 

There is no reason why a 320 or 32H cannot be used as a remote /usr
client.  It is true that a 320 or a 32H cannot be a diskless client, and
that is because ROM support is required for retreiving a boot image from
the network.  However, remote /usr clients have a LOCAL boot image, and
any RISC System/6000 can be configured as a remote /usr client.  The main
differences between normal (standalone) systems, and remote /usr systems
are that the boot image contains network device configuration files, in
addition to a file named "/sbin/net.info", and the modified /etc/filesystems
that has a special stanza for the /usr filesystem.  If the boot image
on a remote /usr client needs to be rebuilt, the correct proto file
needs to be specified so that network support will be picked up.  A
typical invocation to create the remote /usr client boot image is:
bosboot -ad /dev/hdisk0 -p /usr/lib/boot/netdisk.proto
When this code was developed, one of the goals was to allow any system
to be a remote /usr client, in order to conserve our customers' resources
with regard to the hefty /usr filesystem.

flames to /dev/null,
Matt

This information within this posting spewed out of my head and is not
official IBM information.

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>92337. X.desktop Cookbook

 Are you intrigued by X.desktop;  but somewhat frustrated
 when trying to configure and customize it?  Perhaps you
 find the existing docs just a tad light wrt the details?

 The following book is available now in the UK and will
 soon be available in north america - or you can call
 Prentice-Hall's directly and place a credit card order
 for UPS delivery in 10-14 days.  (201) 767-5937

      Title:      X.desktop Cookbook     ISBN:       0-13-978537-X

      Authors:    Michael Burgard        Publisher:  Prentice-Hall
                  Mike Moore
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>92343. HOTW: Snoop on running program - Use the watch command

 The watch command will permit the ROOT user, or a member of the
 AUDIT group, to observe/snoop on the actions of a program (and children)
 that is suspected of being untrustworthy.  The watch command requires
 than the auditing subsystem must *not* be config'd and enabled.

 The file '/etc/security/audit/events' contains a list of actions
 that can be watch'd

 Example 1:   # watch finger root | pg

                   lots of output;  'pg' makes it easier to read

 Example 2:   # watch -o /tmp/foo.bar finger root

                   writes the output to the path/filename '/tmp/foobar'

 Example 3:   # watch -e FILE_Open finger root | pg

                   watches only the files that are opened by the
                   command 'finger root'
-drr
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