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- From: markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell)
- Subject: BSD on SUN-3?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.104709.11414@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk>
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- Reply-To: markd@csqx.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk (Mark Damerell)
- Organization: RHBNC
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 10:47:09 GMT
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- Please does anybody know if there are any plans afoot to adapt
- the BSD system to either SUN-3 or HP-9000/800 series machines?
- My reason for asking is that SUN have withdrawn support and it
- seems that HP are about to do the same. I do appreciate that
- it would be a very difficult thing to adapt BSD to any new
- machine. Even to get BSD Make working is difficult
- because it wants to #include several machine-specific header
- files, all of which must be created for the target machine:
- I have done this (maybe with errors) the program compiles
- but I get several 'undefined function' errors at the link stage.
-
- I would like to be able to read some of the man pages, but when
- I try to run them through nroff, I get garbage. Please, what
- would be the way to format these for teletype? or V100? or
- X terminal?
-
- My colleagues are much concerned
- about the security risk posed by the use of NFS. Would it seem
- reasonable to use the BSD version of nfsd on a machine running
- sun-OS 3? The idea is that BSD nfsd can be told to accept calls
- only from specified I-net addresses, but can it interact with
- the Sun kernel? I know that any competent hacker can forge an
- address, but it would seem difficult to do this if you are the
- wrong side of a router, and anyway, the BSD nfsd ought to be
- more secure than the existing nfsd which (I believe) accepts
- calls from anywhere.
-
- We would really like to be able to use the BSD code for secure
- rpc but this would seem to require a composite kernel containing
- a mixture of BSD code for rpc and SUN-OS code for everything else.
- Is such a beast possible? Please has anybody any suggestions how
- one might attempt it?
-
- Thank you, mark
-