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- From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,biz.sco.general,comp.unix.sys5.r3
- Subject: Re: PC Unix/Xenix vendors
- Message-ID: <C1DuBt.2Lr@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:52:41 GMT
- References: <C1D4wD.5I7@trauma.rn.com> <C1D7Dz.H25@chinet.chi.il.us> <C1DEDz.Mvp@trauma.rn.com>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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- In article <C1DEDz.Mvp@trauma.rn.com> larry@trauma.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >In comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit you write:
- >> and removed /tcb and all the auth nonsense. I was able to
- >
- >what is tcb?
- >
- SCO's "security" package. With 2.0, you can set security
- to standard UNIX (I.E. shadow passwd for all those Cops runners)
- but passwd, login and other stuff still wastes time doing stuff
- with the security database so it is not easy to just edit
- the passwd and shadow file to add/modify users.
-
- >is this an EISA or ISA machine?
- >
- klone ISA system. SCO properly handles above 16 meg memory.
-
- >how many CDROMs do you have mounted at any one time (how many does
- >SCO support?).
- >
- I have one mounted, but will have 4 and sco supports 7 stock.
- Don't know if they support more.
-
- >Who's CD-Players and disks do you use?
- >
- Using an old NEC external. Wouldn't work with a CHINON, so I
- guess it is kinda picky.
-
- >Are you bringing in the pagesat feed into the SCO machine?
- >Does news just scroll in constantly on the pagesat feed, or does
- >it stop/start/stop/start?
- >
- Comes is continuous 10k-65k batches. Second or 2 pause
- every few batches. I am running a 16 port Digiboard, and
- it handles it just fine.
-
- >I assume your news partion is set at 65k inodes -- or are you
- >somehow mounting another machine (or filesystem) to enable the storage
- >of more news on-line?
- >
- That was the only iffy thing on the change over. However, ODT2.0
- supports symlinks, so I just put rec and comp in 1 150 meg
- partition and the rest in another and linked them together.
-
- >Is everything placed directly into the in.coming directory?
- >
- Yep.
-
- >Have you done any timing to see exactly how far behind the pagesat
- >feed gets during peak distribution times?
- >
- I post something to the Internet, I see it from the satellite
- within an hour or 2. Much better than any uucp feed I have
- ever had.
-
- >--
- >Larry Snyder internet: larry@gator.use.com
- >keeper of the Gator uucp: uunet!gator!larry
-
-
- --
- I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
- Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
- That's the biz, sweetheart.
- Randy Suess randy@chinet.chi.il.us
-