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From: shankar@sgi.com (Shankar Unni)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP7xx to HP3000 Connection - PD HP2392/2397 Emulators??
Date: 8 Oct 92 02:12:38 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: boris.wpd.sgi.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5

Will Raymond (willr@.wedge.nt.com) wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for either a PD or commercial
> piece of software that will allow me to run a
> HP3000 blockmode session on a HP700 series
> computer. Preferably something that emulates
> a HP2392/2397 terminal.

For most applications, "hpterm" does a perfectly adequate job
emulating a 2392 (and the text color escape sequences from a 2397).

There is a standard application called "vt3k" that ships with HP-UX
that allows you to do the equivalent of a ":dsline + :remote" to an
MPE-XL or MPE-V machine.

Most applications I've seen seem to work quite adequately over this
combination. Of course, it's not totally bug-free.  Do remember to
turn off type-ahead in vt3k (there's an option to do this) when
running block-mode applications.
--
Shankar Unni				E-Mail:	shankar@sgi.com
Silicon Graphics Inc.			Phone:	+1-415-390-2072
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: mwaugh@utkvx1.utk.edu (marcie)
Subject: Re: HP Interface Architect - req for info
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: University of Tennessee Computing Center
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:38:00 GMT

In article <13330047@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM>, stevewi@hpspdla.spd.HP.COM (Steve Witten) writes...
>Architect has recently been upgraded to 2.0.  It's much nicer than
>1.1.  I used 2.0 (beta) on a product that was just released.
> 
>Contact your HP rep.

I've used both the beta and the "Real McCoy" ;)... Much MUCH better!
2.0 is much different than 1.1! But even so, I haven't had any real problems
with 1.1 product revisions using 2.0. If only the Browser would print!
That's my suggestion for the next improvement!
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From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: How to redirect my new mail to a file
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:00:34 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

I wonder if anyone else has this problem: running HP-UX 8.0 on
a collection of HP machines linked to a network of Suns, we have
incoming mail going to /usr/mail/<name>

My favourite editor (VED, in Poplog) provides a facility for reading
mail on Unix machines which starts by simply moving the mail file
to a private directory.

But on the HP machines I am not allowed to truncate the file in
the system mail directory, so the file just gets longer and longer.

If I try using .forward to direct incoming mail to a file in a protected
directory of my own (of course), I keep getting "cannot create" error
messages.

Is there any way of either using "mv" to move the mail file, or
causing mail to come straight to a private file?

I've scanned all the relevant man files I can think of. "man sendmail"
implies that a filename can be specified but

	   filename	     This must be an absolute pathname.  sendmail
			     appends a message to the file only if the
			     directory in which it resides is readable and
			     searchable by all, and only if the file already
			     exists, is not executable, and is writable by
			     all.

This really is rather stupid when the filename is specified in the
recipients own .forward file.

Aaron
PS
Does anyone know why the standard login notice gives lots of information
about copyrights and dates but fails to say which version of the
operating system is running?
-- 
Aaron Sloman, School of Computer Science,
The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL   A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk  OR A.Sloman@bham.ac.uk
Phone: +44-(0)21-414-3711       Fax:   +44-(0)21-414-4281
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: zrde05@trc.amoco.com (Robert D. Ess)
Subject: top 3.0
Reply-To: zrde05@trc.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco Production Company, Tulsa Research
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 16:20:01 GMT

When building top-3.0 on a 425t, hpux B.08.00, 32 megs, I get no errors but blow
core on execution. If I fire it up with a 'top -u uid' it brings up the top of
the display with no processes. If I specify a number of processes, it blows core
again.

Thanks for any help or insight.





                                  --- * ---
Robert Ess                                      voice   : 918-660-3638
Computing Research                              fax     : 918-660-4163
Amoco Production Research                       email   : ress@trc.amoco.com
                                  --- * ---

    "Jesus saves...but Gretzky gets the rebound, he shoots, he scores!!"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: Enrique Navarro Sanchis <navarro@pereiii.uji.es>
Subject: UPTIME vs MONITOR
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 12:55:36 GMT
Organization: Universitat Jaume I

Hello unluck HP users:
	One of our machines (HP all...) is an HP9000 842 with 32 MB RAM.
	We are working with ORACLE Database to manage administrative
	tasks of the University.
	I have a trouble and I can't understand it.
	Suddenly all users of ORACLE hang up and nobody can wor with
	the database.Well, this is a problem that has to do with parameters
	in ORACLE(too much processes...).
	Any user in the system which is not working with ORACLE works nice.
	I execute "monitor" and CPU is idle at 85/95 %.
	I execute "top" and CPU is idle at 85/95 %.
	I execute "uptime" and load average say me 12.3  8.3 4.2
	I execute "uptime" soon after and load average say me 15.6 12.4  8.4
	I execute "uptime" later and load average say me 18.3 15.2  12.8

	Is this coherent ????
	Please, can someone help me?
	
	Thanks in advance.


Enrique Navarro Sanchis		E-mail: navarro@pereiii.uji.es
SYS ADM						Tel: 964 - 345881
Servei d'Informatica				DO NOT BUY IVORY	
Universitat JAUME I				Ivory belongs only	
CASTELLO   (SPAIN)				to elephants.		
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: mjo@snclib.snc.edu (Mike O'Connor)
Subject: Re: BSD more for HP/UX?
Reply-To: Mike O'Connor <mjo@snclib.snc.edu>
Organization: :noitazinagrO
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 92 07:03:12 GMT

In article <1992Oct10.011052.9500@netcom.com> kc@netcom.com (Dameon D. Welch) writes:

:Does anyone have a BSD version of more that will compile without
:difficulty under HP/UX 8.0 (I like to be able to move back and forth
:in the more like I can under SunOS). Any ftp sites or source code?

You want "less" for both your Sun and your HP.  It's available for anonymous
FTP from iworks.ecn.uiowa.edu with some HP extensions, but should build on
a Sun just fine.  less is a superior pager to more and pg.


-- 
Mike O'Connor
"The NNTP Administrator"
<mjo@snclib.snc.edu>
From: mev@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Mike Vermeulen)
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 05:07:06 GMT
Subject: Re: C compiling on HPUX
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

> I think there are two different definitions of sprintf.  On SYSV systems,
> sprintf returns an int that is a count of the number of items matched.

# of bytes transmitted.

--mev

Disclaimer: Not an official statement of Hewlett-Packard
From: kwb@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Keith Blackwell)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:46:16 GMT
Subject: Re: determining swap space programatically
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
From: eric@helix.nih.gov (Eric Henry)
Subject: HP 750 power supply and memory access
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:43:39 GMT

Has anybody using a 750 (or perhaps other snakes, for that matter) noticed a
power supply "chirp" or "buzz" when running large matrix procedures?
Specifically, when I compute a singular value decomposition of a large
(1800 x 1800) matrix, the power supply emits periodic (from <1 Hz to 4-5 Hz,
depending on at what point the SVD is) bursts that could best be described as
a buzzing sound.  The nature of the SVD algorithm suggests to me that these
bursts are caused by specific patterns of memory access perhaps causing a
special type of load on the power supply.  When the calculation is terminated
the buzzing stops instantaneously, and I have not noticed this multimedia
feature when running any other type of procedure.  My main concern is whether
this is a normal predictable property of this type of power supply, or may
indicate a possible problem with my power supply.  Anybody have any ideas?
E-mail or post (if you consider the problem at all interesting) would be fine.

Eric Henry
National Institutes of Health
eric@helix.nih.gov
From: jui@hpopc6.cern.ch (Charles C. H. Jui)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: auto-routing program
Summary: wanted: SIMPLE autorouting program
Keywords: wanted auto-routing HPUX
Date: 16 Oct 92 22:06:21 GMT
Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics

Has anyone out there ported any PD auto-routing program to the
HPUX platform (speicifcally HP9000/7xx series?)

we don't need anything fancy...just something we can design VME and NIM
cards with,...hopefully with preview capability, and hardcopy output
in HPGL, Postscript or HP laserjet.

thanks in advance

Charles Jui
OPAL Experiment/CERN/UNiversity of California at Riverside Phyics Dept.
From: ron@topaz.bds.com (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP-UX SPEC numbers. Nov.92
Date: 14 Oct 1992 21:49:43 GMT
Organization: BDS Systems
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: topaz.bds.com

>             SPECint92   SPECfp92  
>  745/747        36          72

OK, I give up, I'm fairly up on HP parts (including the unannounced ones)
but I've never heard of either of these.  What are they?

-Ron
Xref: sparky comp.sys.hp:11733 comp.protocols.tcp-ip:4771
From: dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Broadcast and 'ether' and 'ieee' on LAN-card enabled...
Date: 15 Oct 92 19:08:01 GMT
Organization: Ascom Autelca AG, Guemligen, Switzerland

Hi there,

Well, I just got into a strange behaviour on a 9000/380 here.
(probably this is normal, but then I would appreciate somebody tells
me why this happens?).

The problem is easy to describe. 

Open a dgram, SO_BROADCAST socket and sending a broadcast message to
the LAN. This works perfectly on a UNIX box. Only ONE broadcast comes
out the LAN card...
Now, running the same source on a HP 9000/380 will produce THREE (3)
broadcast packets sent *very* fast (so it can't be a timeout or
whatelse...).
I found out that this was partly caused by the fact that HP's do
enable 'ether' and 'ieee' frames on the LAN-card by default
(`lanconfig lan0 ieee ether` in /etc/netlinkrc). This two drivers,
each do forward the broadcast command comming down from the upper
layers separately.... This would explain TWO broadcast packets, but 
WHY ARE THERE THREE??
After disabling the 'ieee' frame, just one broadcast packet is sent
out, as wished.... (If I'd disable just 'ether' on the other hand, I'm
getting NFS timeout's. I assume that NFS uses 'ether' frames?)

Now my questions:

- What causes the third packet to be sent? 
- If I disable 'ieee' on the LAN-card, will this produce any other
  problems I'm not aware off? (the workstationd does NOT use NS..)
- Why does UDP (NFS) use 'ether' frames and not 'ieee' frames? 
  I thought that 'ether' frames are mostly used for Novel only
  networks? Am I totally wrong??

Thanks for any hint!

Regards

Daniel

(Yes, It's true. I work for HP, but not long enough to have all that
knowledge about that stuff....  :-(


-- 
Daniel J. Huber, AIN1 / Ascom Autelca AG / CH-3073 Guemligen / Switzerland
SMTP: dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch / Voice: +41 31 9996664 / Fax: +41 31 9996751 
X.400: /G=Daniel/S=Huber/OU=Autelca/O=Ascom/P=EUnet/A=Arcom/C=ch/
UNIX is the answer....what was the question?
From: franks@hpuamsa.neth.hp.com (Frank Slootweg CRC)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 12:52:00 GMT
Subject: Re: Exabyte support on HP700s
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, The Netherlands
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

system@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (System Admin (Mike Peterson)) writes:

>In article <1992Oct7.190140.12159@u.washington.edu> seymour@stein.u.washington.edu (Richard Seymour) writes:
>>(at the end of reading a tar file, the HP sends a "write zero filemarks" to
>> the Exabyte to "flush its buffers".
>
>It also does this when writing, which causes our Fujitsu 9-track SCSI
>tape drive to barf - issuing such commands to the device driver to get it
>to clean up is fine, but sending them to the physical device is ridiculous.

  In the Exabyte case the bug is in the firmware of the Exabyte drive
(see Richard Seymour's response if you have a hard time believing an HP
employee). Don't blame the HP device driver for it. And yes, we are
"fixing" our driver to account for other companies' broken firmware.

  You might want to have a look at SR # 4701056382 in 807KNOWN_PROB in
/etc/newconfig (and at your Fujitsu drive and your signature line :-)).

Frank Slootweg, HP, Dutch Customer Response Center
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: jmuscat@nexus.yorku.ca (John Muscat)
Subject: C compiling on HPUX
Originator: jmuscat@nexus.yorku.ca
Organization: York University, Toronto, Canada
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 21:05:10 GMT


I'm compiling some software on a HP9000/380 with HPUX 8.0 and at the compile 
stage I am successful however I get a error at the linking stage. In particular:

	cc -o macps -s -O macps.o macaux.o ucbwhich.o
	ld: Undefined external -
	_getwd
	ld: output file still contains undefined symbols
	*** Error code 1

Is _getwd a standard C function call on HPUX. If so which compile flags do
I need to specify and/or Library and Include files.

I've also sometimes get the following problem when compiling public domain 
software with respect to the "sprintf" function which I know is standard 
function.

	line 99: function declarations for 'sprintf' have incompatible
	   return types
	*** Error code 1

The problem occurs with the def'n of sprintf in the C program.

	extern char  *sprintf()

What's the best way to fix this?

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Mathematics & Statistics
York University
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M3J 1P3

email: jmuscat@nexus.yorku.ca
voice: (416) 736-2100 x88604
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: abl@cybill.inesc.pt (Antonio Leal)
Subject: Re: Killed ???
Organization: INESC - Inst. Eng. Sistemas e Computadores, LISBOA. PORTUGAL.
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:19:18 GMT

xm9@sdcc12.ucsd.edu (richard g. adair) writes:
>
> [Fortran "killed" question, and good answer ommitted]
>
> To correct the problem,
> use SAM to increase the per-process memory limit.  WARNING: do not
> set this higher than (RAMsize+SWAPsize)-10MB or your machine could
> crap out. [...]

Side issue: shouldn't this be just "SWAPsize - 10MB" ?  I think that
someone mentioned that space for the current content of physical mem
is also kept in swap, which makes sense from an efficiency point of
view (no write-back of unmodified pages, probably the huge majority,
besides avoiding buffering problems).

--
Antonio B. Leal		| IST / INESC
+351.1.310 0300		| R. Alves Redol 9, 1000 Lisboa
abl@inesc.pt		| Portugal
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: chen@humboldt.kent.edu (Chen)
Subject: How can we get rid of HP VUE.
Keywords: HP VUE, vuewm, mwm
Organization: Kent State University
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:56:21 GMT


Hello HP pros,

I have posted the following message to comp.windows.x.motif, and got recommanded
to post it here, so here it goes again:

===============================================================================
Hi folks, 

I have a problem with HP VUE.  I don't know if this is the right group to post,
but since HP VUE is based on Motif window manager, so...

I just switched to a new place where we use HP 9000/730 as host and HP A1097Cs
as X terminals where it runs HP VUE session.  Since I am so used to the old-
fashion xdm type of X window, I want to get rid of HP VUE and have xdm to source
my .login/out files, resource files....etc. and give me full control of the 
session. I have tried 2 ways to get around:

	1. Login with Fail-Safe session from the greeting window, in which
	case I have to start every application by hand after I logged in, 
	including the window manager.

	2. Change the resource wmStartupCommand to another window manager, say
	mwm, in which case I couldn't even logout w/o killing the process of
	vuesession by hand.

I also thought about another possibility, login with no window and start X
with xinit. The problem is that we are using X terminals where that option
is greyed out on the login window.

I know vuewm is the most complicated, most fancy window manager, but I just
don't like it. Could anyone kindly give me some tips of how to get around?

Thank you very much in advance.

===============================================================================

I am just still hoping that there is a way for a user to choose whether he wants
VUE or not. If he doesn't want VUE,  he can just bypass VUE and if he doesn't
care, he can still run vuewm as the first choice. (hopefully w/o touching
any system file, is it possible? )

Any recommendation?  Thanks. 


-- 


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ligang                                                       Ligang Chen 

Department of Math and Computer Science 
Kent State University.
(216) 672-4004 ext 135  voice mail 501
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From: peter@vd.volvo.se (Peter Hkansson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: frestore blues
Keywords: recover lost files, user friendliness
Date: 7 Oct 92 10:04:09 GMT
Reply-To: peter@volvo.UUCP (Peter Hakansson)
Organization: Volvo Data Corp. Sweden

Also restoring a file with SAM is easy and fast. 
Scheduling incremental backup (also with SAM) works fine.

However, SAM insist on beeing run by root, so ordinary users
cannot get this help. Trying to let an ordinary user to restore
his/her file(s) themself with the use of frestore command IS a pain.

How about letting SAM be run by ordinary users, but refusing to do
special functions (exept for selected items). This would give the
opportunity to use SAM as front end to fbackup/frestore.

An alternative would be to build a new frontend for fbackup/frestore.

Any comments out there ?

Peter H(aring)kanson, VoilvoData
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: dgreen@sti.com (Dan R. Greening)
Subject: Re: Disconnecting SCSI cables while system running
Organization: Software Transformation, Inc.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 05:21:52 GMT

gmh@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Greg Hughes) wrote:
>Yes, you will sometimes panic the system, so it is best pactice to shut it
>down.  I've demonstrated this to myself at a most annoying time....

I've demonstrated it to myself too, but it is far too appealing to avoid
the temptation: my backup unit is a shared DAT drive and my 710 is not shared.

I haven't had any problem doing this with a quiescent system.

It seems like this would be a useful thing to fix.  Any reason why the
system has to panic, rather than spew a warning and wait for the drive to 
come back on line, if a disk access is made to an unterminated bus?
-- 
____
\  /Dan Greening    Software Transformation   1601 Saratoga-Sunnyvale Rd, #100
 \/dgreen@sti.com   (408) 973-8081 x313       Cupertino, CA 95014
From: kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 16:43:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Where to get libXaw (compiled) for HP9000/300 ??
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

In comp.sys.hp, dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch (Daniel Huber) writes:

> I have FTP access...
> 
> Please give me a hint..
> 
> Thanks a lot!
> 
> Daniel
> 
> -- 
> Daniel J. Huber, AIN1 / Ascom Autelca AG / CH-3073 Guemligen / Switzerland
> SMTP: dhuber@autelca.ascom.ch / Voice: +41 31 9996664 / Fax: +41 31 9996751 
> X.400: /G=Daniel/S=Huber/OU=Autelca/O=Ascom/P=EUnet/A=Arcom/C=ch/
> UNIX is the answer....what was the question?

Anon. ftp hpcvaaz.cv.hp.com ~ftp/pub/MitX11R4[5]

KK
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: chuck@edsi.plexus.COM (Chuck Tomasi)
Subject: HP-UX Patch numbers - what do they mean?
Organization: Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton WI
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 22:15:28 GMT

I've been noticing a variety of patch letters and numbers with HP-UX
recently.  Some are PHKL-####, some are PHNE-xxxx, and a variety of
others.  Does anyone know if the letters have significance?  If so, what
are they?
-- 
Chuck Tomasi             | Elections are like washing windows...
chuck@edsi.plexus.COM    | The dirt is always on the other side.
spool!cserver!edsi!chuck |             -Reader's Digest Sept 92
------<Enterprise Data Systems Incorporated, Appleton Wisconsin>------
From: sigurtho@kerfi.hi.is (Sigurdur Thorarinsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Why is SO_BURST_IN/OUT irrelevant in HP-UX 8.0 ?
Date: 7 Oct 92 18:17:43 GMT

In HP-UX 8.0 Release Note it says: 
"In 8.0, the options SO_BURST_IN and SO_BURST_OUT are
irrelavant". Can anybody explain why that is so.

Thanks in advance, 
			Sigurdur Thorarinsson
			Engineering Resaerch Institude
			University of Iceland
			sigurtho@kerfi.hi.is
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: nick@abblund.se (Nick Hoggard)
Subject: VHE problem: Current Working Directory
Organization: Ideon Research Park
Date:  9 Oct 92 14:10:48 GMT

Does anyone else have problems with Current Working Directory when
using VHE. I get the following error in my ~/.vue/errorlog when
starting up VUE:

Thu Oct 08 17:24:05 1992
vuesession: Couldn't get current working directory.  Using / instead.
  %a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Y

This problem does not seem to be unique to VUE. I've had problems with
emacs too.


--
Nick Hoggard                    ***    NOTE - NEW EMAIL ADDRESS!   ***
Man-Machine Communication Lab                  Phone: + 46 46 168524
ABB Corporate Research, Dept KLL               Fax:   + 46 46 145620
Ideon Research Park, S-223 70 Lund, Sweden     Email: nick@crclund.abb.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
From: ken@studsvik.com (Ken Rempe)
Subject: UUCP and NIS
Organization: Studsvik of America
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1992 22:26:00 GMT


I have two problem with an HP 720 running HPUX 8.07.

1. I want to setup UUCP between the HP and a Sun using TCP. I have done
   this for Sun's and IBM RS6000 but can't seem to find out how to do
   this for the HP. Has anybody done this before?

2. I have setup the HP to be a NIS client of a Sun. This seems to work okay
   except that the HP doesn't use the mail aliases file. Is there something
   that I have to do inorder for the HP to recognize the aliases file?

-- 
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Studsvik of America,Inc.    *   uunet!idaho!caesar!ken
Nuclear Code Development    *   Idaho Falls,ID USA  ph 208-522-4630
From: ajs@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Alan Silverstein)
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 20:02:12 GMT
Subject: Re: HP 750 power supply and memory access
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp

> I did not know that the 750 is cappable of matter -> energy conversion.

We haven't worked out all the bugs yet, so it's not a supported feature.




:-)
From: atkinson@itd.nrl.navy.mil (Randall Atkinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HP finally has released ypbind with security fixes!
Date: 7 Oct 92 12:28:36 GMT
Organization: Naval Research Laboratory, DC

In article <STEINAR.HAUG.92Oct7094355@delab.sintef.no> Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug) writes:
>HP finally has released ypbind with security fixes, as the CERT Advisory
>reproduced below shows. Thanks, HP! (And about time!) Now, how about making
>such security fixes available on the net (for instance from ftp.uu.net), like
>other vendors do?

  Absolutely right.  Security-relevant patches should be available via
anonymous ftp from a well connected site as soon as they are created.
Other vendors, for example Sun, have been doing that for years.  HP is
really behind the times and needs to open up.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp