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From: chris@wupost.wustl.edu (Chris Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Can't get logging to work in latest ftpd
Date: 28 Jul 1992 12:18:23 -0500
Organization: Washington University in Saint Louis, MO USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: wuarchive.wustl.edu

weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Weinrich) writes:

> I have just built and installed the latest ftpd from wustl.  It
> works well except for a few omissions.  When a user enters his/her
> name/userid at the first prompt, two lines are added to the file
> /var/adm/messages that look like:
>   Jul 27 17:12:18 hermes ftpd[4924]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory
>   Jul 27 17:12:18 hermes ftpd[4924]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory

By default the ftp server wants to put the PID files, which are used
for counting the number of active users in each class, in
/usr/local/daemon/ftpd.  You need to edit pathnames.h and recompile to
put the files elsewhere or create that directory.

> When the user logs in, I want the file /etc/msgs/welcome.msg to be
> displayed, but it's not happening.  When the user cd's to the /pub
> directory, the .message file *IS* being displayed.  I'm using the
> /usr/local/etc/ftpaccess file almost straight out of the box.  Two
> sample lines read:
>   message /etc/msgs/welcome.msg   login
>   message .message                cwd=*

Remember that once an anonymous user is logged in, all paths are now
relative to ~ftp.  So, does ~ftp/etc/msgs/welcome.msg exist?  Also,
little nits like: is it world-readable, is ~ftp/etc/msgs at least
world execute (searchable)?

> -Kevin Weinrich
> weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu
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From: mjones@bk-kgnaix11.aix.kingston.ibm.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Date: 17 Jul 92 20:33 MDT
Subject: Re: UNIX on RS6000? Need information...
Nf-ID: #R:1992Jul15.132816.15620@usenet.in:969173088:1992Jul17.123329@bk-kgnaix11.aix:1098863373:001:695
Nf-From: bk-kgnaix11.aix.kingston.ibm.com!mjones    Jul 17 20:33:00 1992



In article <1992Jul15.132816.15620@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner) writes:
> 
> Does anybody offer a computer with IBMs RS6000 chip and unix?

Well, there's the IBM Risc System/6000 family with AIX, which is IBM's
version of UNIX.

> How much are the cheapest of these machines?

Call your local IBM branch office; they can tell you everything about the
machines.

   Mike Jones  |  AIX/ESA Development  |  mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com

In some terminal systems ... the user can keep his program from being pushed
down in the priority stack by fiddling with the shift key while he is
thinking.
	- Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming
From: numb@root.co.uk (Matthew Newman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: svr4
Date: 30 Jul 92 14:57:55 GMT
Organization: UniSoft Ltd., London, England
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X-Organisation: UniSoft Ltd
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X-Job: Systems Engineer
X-Phone: +44 71 729 3773 x215, Fax: +44 71 729 3273

In <1992Jul29.211324.6725@prl.dec.com> boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts) writes:
>What I want to know is if you can poll(2) on a socket and select(2) on a stream?
>Or, is that bug still there for backwards compatibility? :-)
Select in SVR4 is implemented in terms of poll, there should be no issue here.
-- 

Matt Newman
From: weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Weinrich)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Can't get logging to work in latest ftpd
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:52:07 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

I have just built and installed the latest ftpd from wustl.  It
works well except for a few omissions.  When a user enters his/her
name/userid at the first prompt, two lines are added to the file
/var/adm/messages that look like:
  Jul 27 17:12:18 hermes ftpd[4924]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory
  Jul 27 17:12:18 hermes ftpd[4924]: open of pid file failed: No such file or directory

When the user logs in, I want the file /etc/msgs/welcome.msg to be
displayed, but it's not happening.  When the user cd's to the /pub
directory, the .message file *IS* being displayed.  I'm using the
/usr/local/etc/ftpaccess file almost straight out of the box.  Two
sample lines read:
  message /etc/msgs/welcome.msg   login
  message .message                cwd=*

I changed the line in /etc/inetd.conf to read:
  ftp	stream	tcp	nowait	root	/usr/local/etc/ftpd	ftpd -d -l -a
and did a "kill -1" on inetd.

So far as I can tell, I'm not getting any notification when someone
starts an ftp session to my machine, but I can tell when they
"get" a file.

Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or where to look?
I appreciate any help.

-Kevin Weinrich
weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu
From: grimes@netcom.com (George Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to increase transfer speed in Kermit
Date: 28 Jul 92 14:01:02 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

In article <1992Jul28.022121.2285@snuffy.dracut.ma.us> bob@snuffy.dracut.ma.us (Bob Smith) writes:
>ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang) writes:
>
>>I just bought a 14,400 Modem. However, after trying to download the data from
>>the VAX in the university, I found the download speed from the mainframe to my
>>Mac was slow. The transfering speed was about 560 byts in each  TWO seconds. If
>>the high speed modem worked fine, then the transfer speed should be about
>>1,440  in ONE second. (Is that right?)
>>I have check the VAX and the modem there is 14,400. I don't expect that the
>>speed can  reach 1440 in a second but the speed I got was so slow. How come?
>
>>Can anyone help me solve this problem?
>
>The problem is kermit.  I'm not versed in the specifics of the problem,
>but something to do with kermits smallish packet size.  I vaguely remember
>someone trying to set a larger packet size with some success, but not all
>kermits allow that...  My suggestion would be to use something else...
>if it's available...
>
My suggestion would be to use the latest version of Kermit.  Old versions
had very small packets.  The newer versions support up to 8K byte packets
and they work much faster.

George
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: childs@crchh342.bnr.ca (Bill Childs)
Subject: HP Architect
Keywords: HP Architect
Reply-To: childs@crchh342.bnr.ca (Bill Childs)
Organization: Bell Northern Research
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 22:06:42 GMT



We are looking at purchasing HP Architecture, an X-Window development tool.
Does anyone have any experiences either good or bad with the software.
I would appreciate any and all comments.......

Thanx,

Bill
From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: help with setting up a unix system
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:11:06 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa

In article <9207212131.AA06923@fsa.enel.ucalgary.ca> barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker) writes:
>Hello, all. I was wondering if I could get a few opinions from anyone with
>any information. I am going to buy myself a computer in september, and I am
>going to get a unix operating system for it. However, I need some help in
>deciding on brands. I'll tell you what I've decided so far:
>
>        I am buying a 486 PC of some sort, so I can still run some
>                MS-DOS programs I like (games such as Ultima)
>
>        I want at least 6gigabytes of disk space
>
>        I want to be able to run openwindows

In a later post you say that you want to run the PC version of
OpenWindows (or whatever X on the PC is called).  To clear things up
for you:  X on the PC is called X.  X on any box is called X.
OpenWindows <> X: it is a particular flavour of X, produced by Sun.

If you want to run OpenWindows (i.e. if you want the same windowing
environment as you have on your SPARC) on your PC, then you will need
to buy Solaris from Sun (Solaris is SunOS, OpenWindows, and some other
stuff).

This segues into a question you have not asked:  "What UNIX should I
run?" A very good question, and one that you should probably answer
before asking the rest:  the answer may very well determine what CPU(s)
you can buy, what disks, how much disk space you can have, etc.

I suggest that you do a little more digging, looking into UNIX variants
such as Solaris, SCO UNIX, Xenix, linux, and whatever else might be
available.

The various vendors should be able to help you with the answers to the
rest of your questions (questions on linux should be directed to
comp.os.linux).  Come back to the net for sanity checks on vendor
replies, however.

pww
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: svr4
Date: 29 Jul 92 18:19:18 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Does anyone know if svr4 is going to support sockets (I know its bsd)?

From my copy of the System V Release 4 "Programmer's Guide: Networking
Interfaces" document:

	...

	As part of the unification of UNIX System V and Berkeley UNIX,
	the sockets interface and support for the DARPA protocols (the
	TCP/IP Internet Package) ahve also been added to System V
	Release 4.0.

	Both TLI and sockets provide a programming interace to the
	transport layer.  In System V Release 4.0, both are implemented
	within the STREAMS framework.  They differ in the following
	ways:

	   + TLI is media- and protocol-independent.  It allows
	     applications to run over any transport protocol that
	     supports the TLI interface.

	   + The sockets interface has historically been tied to the
	     Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP and UDP/IP.

	It is expected that new applications will take advantage of
	TLI's protocol independence and that the socket interface will
	be used primarily in expanding and maintaining existing
	sockets-based applications.

("Berkeley UNIX"?  Uh-oh, I think USL's lawyers had better sue the
authors of the UNIX(R) System V Release 4 Programmer's Guide: Networking
Interfaces; it appears to have come from the UNIX Software Operation of
the American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation.  Hmm.  "UNIX Software
Operation".  Sounds a bit like "UNIX Systems Laboratory"....)

>We are writing an application in sunos4.1.1 using sockets and have been
>told that sun will initially support sockets in solaris 2.0 with a
>library, but will not support it for very long.  Is this true?

Probably not.  I don't see the sockets interface in SVR4 going away any
time soon.  Heck, if the POSIX 1003.n committee dealing with network
interfaces does what I've heard they're considering doing, namely
standardizing *both* a sockets *and* a TLI/XTI interface, they may be
with us for a while.  In addition, I think there'll be a sockets
interface, at least to the Internet protocols, in Windows as well; I
think many DOS Internet protocol implementations have a sockets-like
interface.
From: larry@dprmpt.UUCP (Larry)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: How to increase transfer speed in Kermit
Date: 27 Jul 92 12:59:38 GMT
Reply-To: larry@dprmpt.UUCP (Larry)
Organization: Data-Prompt

In article <25JUL199219273587@oregon.uoregon.edu> ccyang@oregon.uoregon.edu (Chun-Ching Yang) writes:
>I just bought a 14,400 Modem. However, after trying to download the data from
>the VAX in the university, I found the download speed from the mainframe to my
>Mac was slow. The transfering speed was about 560 byts in each  TWO seconds. If
>the high speed modem worked fine, then the transfer speed should be about
>1,440  in ONE second. (Is that right?)
>I have check the VAX and the modem there is 14,400. I don't expect that the
>speed can  reach 1440 in a second but the speed I got was so slow. How come?
>
>Can anyone help me solve this problem?
>
>
>                                                        Yang 
You might try using "-e 1000" on the "kermit -s" command.  This option
tells kermit to use 1000 byte buffers.  On my system, the default
buffer size is something like 100 bytes, and specifying this option
_significantly_ increases throughput.  Of course, both kermits (host
and target) must be running a version of Kermit that supports the
large block size.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: boyd@prl.dec.com (Boyd Roberts)
Subject: Re: svr4
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation - Paris Research Laboratory
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 21:13:24 GMT

In article <13804@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
> 
> From my copy of the System V Release 4 "Programmer's Guide: Networking
> Interfaces" document:
> 

What I want to know is if you can poll(2) on a socket and select(2) on a stream?

Or, is that bug still there for backwards compatibility? :-)


Boyd Roberts			boyd@prl.dec.com

``When the going gets wierd, the weird turn pro...''
From: lin@wharton.upenn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Date: 17 Jul 92 23:46 MDT
Subject: What are Simpler Source and System 
Nf-ID: #N:1992Jul17.144636.1@wharton.upenn:415276224:001:484
Nf-From: wharton.upenn.edu!lin    Jul 17 23:46:00 1992



This morning my boss walked in my office and asked: "What are Simple Source
and System Builder?"  If I had known what he was talking about you wouldn't
see this article on the net, and if I don't find out soon I'll be mopping 
the floor with my buddy Joe.

Does anyone know what they are, what they do, and how to get them?  I would
really appreciate if anyone could e-mail any suggestions to me.  Will they
run on IBM RS/6000 with AIX 3.2?

Thanks in advance for your help.


Fred.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com (Jeff Markel)
Subject: Re: UNIX on RS6000? Need information...
Reply-To: grumpy@jpradley.UUCP (Jeff Markel)
Organization: Unix in NYC
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 17:41:13 GMT

In article <1992Jul17.123329@bk-kgnaix11.aix.kingston.ibm.com> mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com writes:
>
>In article <1992Jul15.132816.15620@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>, aj681@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Carlin Wiegner) writes:
>> 
>> Does anybody offer a computer with IBMs RS6000 chip and unix?
>
>Well, there's the IBM Risc System/6000 family with AIX, which is IBM's
>version of UNIX.

You can also buy RS6000 based systems from Wang and Bull.


>
>> How much are the cheapest of these machines?
>
>Call your local IBM branch office; they can tell you everything about the
>machines.
>
>   Mike Jones  |  AIX/ESA Development  |  mjones@donald.aix.kingston.ibm.com
>
>In some terminal systems ... the user can keep his program from being pushed
>down in the priority stack by fiddling with the shift key while he is
>thinking.
>	- Gerald Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming


                        Jeff Markel

Jeffrey Markel | uucp:     jpradley!argos!markel   | Argos Computer Systems Inc
KD2HN          | internet: grumpy@jpradley.jpr.com | 110 W. 32nd Street 
(212)594-5400  | amprnet:  kd2hn@kd2hn.ampr.org    | New York, NY 10001
===============================================================================
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From: barker@enel.ucalgary.ca (Scott Barker)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: help with setting up a unix system
Date: 21 Jul 1992 16:31:55 -0500
Organization: UTexas Mail-to-News Gateway
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

Hello, all. I was wondering if I could get a few opinions from anyone with
any information. I am going to buy myself a computer in september, and I am
going to get a unix operating system for it. However, I need some help in
deciding on brands. I'll tell you what I've decided so far:

        I am buying a 486 PC of some sort, so I can still run some
                MS-DOS programs I like (games such as Ultima)

        I want at least 6gigabytes of disk space

        I want to be able to run openwindows

I have quite a bit of experience in using unix on a Sun SPARCstation IPC, so
I know a lot about what unix does, but not so much about how it does it
(however, I do know some of how it works).

Anyway, what I would like is some opinions on:

1) What type of PC would be good?
2) What brand of unix is good?
3) How should I partition my drive(s)?
4) How many drives should I spread my 6gig across for good response?
5) How much memory should I have?
6) What types of monitors are good?
7) What kind of drives are good?
8) What kind of ROM BIOS for my MS-DOS partition is good?
9) What kind of power supply protection should I have?
10) Anything relevant to purchasing and setting up a unix system which I
        have neglected to ask above, which is probably quite a bit.

Keep in mind that I want at least one DOS partition on my drives, and that I
will still be running DOS applications every once in a while.

Please give me an explanation of your answers, not just a "You should buy this,
that and the other." I would prefer "You should buy this, that and the other,
BECAUSE..." Also, please tell me what kind of hardware, software and warranty
support your choices have (including upgrading support).

Please e-mail me with responses, since I do not intend to read this newsgroup
often (there are far too many articles, most of which I have no interest in
or no idea about). I can post a summary of results, if the majority of people
would like me to.

Any help is appreciated.

-- 
Thank you for your attention.
==============================================================================
Scott Barker
barker@enel.ucalgary.ca

"Asking if a computer can think is like asking if a submarine can swim"
   - Edsgar Djikstra
From: stryker@pencom.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: quick research question
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:47:15 GMT
Reply-To: stryker@pencom.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Pencom Software



Would anyone be able to estimate how many machine will be sold next year  
running SCO-UNIX 3.2 ?   

Thank you.

-Ryan
From: berman@nlm.nih.gov (Lew Berman)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: svr4
Date: 29 Jul 92 14:32:23 GMT
Reply-To: berman@nlm.nih.gov
Organization: National Library of Medicine


Does anyone know if svr4 is going to support sockets (I know its bsd)?  We are writing
an application in sunos4.1.1 using sockets and have been told that sun will initially 
support sockets in solaris 2.0 with a library, but will not support it for very long.
Is this true?  Should we write our appliation in STREAMS?

Thanks,

Lew Berman
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: svr4
Date: 29 Jul 1992 21:13:56 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <13804@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>	   + TLI is media- and protocol-independent.  It allows
>	     applications to run over any transport protocol that
>	     supports the TLI interface.
>
>	   + The sockets interface has historically been tied to the
>	     Internet protocol suite, TCP/IP and UDP/IP.

While it has "historically been tied to ... TCP/IP", it's not intrinsically
tied to it, and was definitely designed with protocol and media
independence in mind.  In particular, the original BSD implementation
supported three different domains: INET, XNS, and UNIX.  I believe that
BSD4.4 adds OSI support to sockets, and SunNet X.25 provides a socket
interface to X.25 connections.

From what I was able to tell from the Stevens book, TLI and sockets are
very similar.  The structure of a program that uses either will be almost
the same -- you could almost write an automatic translator.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
From: prall968@Armstrong.EDU
Subject: Z-Modem Protocol
Organization: Armstrong State College, Savannah, GA
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 23:18:29 GMT

IS there a Z-modem protocol for a Solborne Unix system?

Too many times I get disconnected in the middle of a large file transfer
from home.. and would like the resume feature of Z-modem to pick up
where it left off..

Could someone give me an ftp address I can get the protocol from
or uuencode and mail me a copy?

Replies via E-mail please....

Gene Prall   prall968@pirates.armstrong.edu
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: help with setting up a unix system
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:55:03 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>If you want to run OpenWindows (i.e. if you want the same windowing
>environment as you have on your SPARC) on your PC, then you will need
>to buy Solaris from Sun (Solaris is SunOS, OpenWindows, and some other
>stuff).

...once it comes out for PClones.  I don't think "Solaris for Intel", or
whatever they call it (if they call it "Solaris for Intel", *I* think
Sequent should buy a copy, and complain to Sun if it doesn't work, out
of the box, on a Symmetry...), is out yet.

Note also that if the original poster doesn't want *all* of Open
Windows, and has the time and energy to spend on an XView port, they
could look into snagging the XView 3.0 source and building it on
whatever platform they get.  With XView 3.0 you get the XView toolkit,
Sun's "olwm" window manager, and a few utilities such as "cmdtool",
"shelltool", and "textedit".  You *don't* get the DeskSet stuff, though.

>I suggest that you do a little more digging, looking into UNIX variants
>such as Solaris, SCO UNIX, Xenix, linux, and whatever else might be
>available.

E.g., SVR4.2, which, like Solaris 2.0, is SVR4-based.  It also
presumably has a window manager that does OPEN LOOK, although it's not
Sun's "olwm", as far as I know.  I suspect that its window manager, like
AT&T's MoOLIT toolkit, can be told to do Motif (or something extremely
similar; dunno if it's been Officially Certified as being a Motif
implementation by OSF), so if the original poster wants OPEN LOOK, they
should be able to get it, although it probably doesn't specifically have
all the Sun DeskSet stuff (you can probably put XView 3.0 on it,
though).

I don't know whether it's out yet, either (i.e., I don't know if you can
walk into a store and buy it, or even order it from USL or Univel or
whoever you order it from).

Or, if you're really adventurous, there's always 386BSD....
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc,misc.forsale.computers
From: ocl@cc.ic.ac.UK (Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond)
Subject: WANTED: Estimate in price for a UN*X system
Organization: The Ohio State University Department of Computer and Information Science
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 15:40:46 GMT

I would like an estimate in the price of the following equipment, second
hand (with the ultimate aim of a large BBS system).

- UN*X-based machine, which can process 30 users simultaneously
- Input Modems for 30 users (dialup lines / uucp / tcp-ip)
- Transceiver for backbone tcp-ip internet connection
- Plenty of disk space (> 6Gb) for storage of email, USENEt news, etc.

To keep prices down, a second hand machine is preferable.
Please answer directly to me. If there is interest, I'll post a
resume to the net.
Please note as well, that this is just a call for estimate. Don't
send me offers for sale. Last but not least, please note that the
above has nothing to do with Imperial College.

Hoping to hear from a lot of people,
thanks,

Olivier


--
Olivier M.J. Crepin-Leblond, Digital Comms. Section, Elec. Eng. Department
 Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London SW7 2BT, UK
      Internet/Bitnet: <ocl@cc.ic.ac.uk> - Janet: <ocl@uk.ac.ic.cc>
From: clyde2+@pitt.edu (James C Elder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: ftp service
Keywords: ftp
Date: 30 Jul 92 05:03:50 GMT
Organization: University of Pittsburgh - CIS


Question: Is there a guide to setting up an ftp service?
	Things like directory structures and protections, accounts, etc.

Thank you,
	Jim

clyde2@unixd2.cis.pitt.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc