Does anyone have any experience with UUCP on macOS or *BSD systems that
would be willing to help me figure something out?
I'm working on adding a macOS X system to my micro UUCP network and
running into some problems.
- uuto / uucp copy files from my non-root / non-(_)uucp user to the
UUCP spool. But the (demand based) ""call (pipe over SSH) is failing.
- running "uucico -r1 -s <remote system name> -f" as the (_)uucp user
(via sudo) works.
- I'm using the pipe port type and running things over an SSH connection.
- The (_)uucp user can ssh to the remote system as expected
without any problems or being prompted for a password. (Service
specific keys w/ forced command.)
I noticed that the following files weren't set UID or GID like they are
on Linux. But I don't know if that's a macOS and / or *BSD difference
when compared to Linux.
/usr/bin/uucp
/usr/bin/uuname
/usr/bin/uustat
/usr/bin/uux
/usr/sbin/uucico
/usr/sbin/uuxqt
Adding the set UID & GID bits allowed things to mostly work.
Aside: Getting the contemporary macOS so that I could edit the
(/usr/share/uucp/) sys & port files was a treat.
I figured that it was worth inquiring if anyone had any more experience
/ tips / gotchas before I go bending ~> breaking things even more.
Thank you.
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Anyone have experience with the Moto 88k VME boards? I have an MVME197LE that I?m trying to bring up but it?s staying in BRDFAIL, while SYSCON and RUN are green and pressing RESET appears to work.
Nothing on console at all. (via a 712 transition module)
Same behavior with the NVRAM removed.
I do have the mezzanine card which has stayed affixed with an interesting inter-board connection. (Is this separate-able? Should it function without this DRAM?).
I?ll dive deep into debugging this, but if anyone has some tips or experience they could share it would be appreciated!
Thanks!
-Ryan Brooks
ryan at hack.net
Hi all,
Thanks for previous help on this project. I am working on an old 486 computer and I have replaced a 40 pin IDE hard drive with this SD adapter...
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07G29TZPS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01…
In general it seems to mostly be working. I can see a directory listing of several thousands files located on a 2GB SD card from yesteryear. The SD card was new when I installed it (has been in my possession for years).
However, I do get errors "sector not found" and if I A)bort I get INT 24 error. I am trying to get windows 95 installed and this is certainly preventing that.
In the BIOS settings I have the hard drive set as "USER" and these parameters:
CY:[1024] HD:[16] ST:[63] LZ:[1024] WP:[0]
These were the parameters in use while I was still using the actual hard drive.
Question 1: Now that I am using an SD card instead of an IDE drive, what, if anything, should I be doing with these BIOS parameters?
Question 2: The BIOS has an option to format the hard drive. Should I format the SD card using this facility?
I did not explicitly put a filesystem on that SD card. I placed it in a windows 7 machine, it was recognized, and I began copying files to it. I then place the SD card into the 486 machine where I saw the sector not found errors.
Any advice how to proceed?
Thanks
Eugene
A person on Reddit picked up what appears to be part of a Video Toaster
and is interested in getting it to someone who can actually use it. I
offered to pass on the message-
The system is in a PC case, with two full-height 5.25" Seagate SCSI disks
and a third-height 3.5" IBM SCSI disk, plus an optical drive and two 3.5"
floppy disk drives.
There's a standard-looking AT power supply and a (looks like) passive
16-bit ISA bus that has a single card in it which matches a NewTek TBCii
"Time Base Correction" board.
Pictures here:
https://imgur.com/gallery/lqmRz6i
They do want money, but not much, although shipping might be a bit steep
for a case of this size and with the weight of the PSU and two full-height
disks. I am not sure of their location, I got the impression (possibly
wrongly) they were US based.
eMail address is:
shishkebarbarian at gmail.com
I have no affiliation with the seller and all information is derived from
the images taken, so do please contact them directly.
- JP
>Downloading http://dunfield.maknonsolutions.com/dos/sw/ddw2020.zip
>gets flagged by Windows Defender on Windows 10 Pro (1909)
>as "Worm:Win32/Spybot".
A new tool now available on the site:
Daves Distribution File Checker
I have received reports that Windows Defenfer incorrectly lables some of my
executables as naughty. I assure you this is not the case when published.
They are freshly compiled from my own/known source code on a secure system.
To help you know files are exactly as I uploaded then and not compromized in
transit, I created this tool. It uses a proprietary/unpublished algorithm and
multiple encrypted CRCs to validate that a file is exactly as I published it.
The tool which makes the database will never be distributed in any way.
You can check a complete .ZIP archive or individual files from it. The archive
does not have to be present for DDFC to check individual files, but you do have
to specify it so DDFC knows which file to reference in it's database.
This program and it's database are self protecting, but can't insure they don't
get replaced by something that looks the same without providing the protection.
To help avoid this, I will reload this file every time I update my site.
Dave
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Hi All,
I'm restoring a Zenith MinisPort laptop, an 8088 based laptop with a
monochrome screen and 2" floppy drive.
I have a Twitter thread of the restoration so far with pics:
https://twitter.com/paulrickards/status/1272280795529519105
I recapped the internal power supply board which seems to be working well
now.
The next issue appears to be memory. The unit won't store the BIOS settings
properly, even with new lithium batteries or warm restart. In the BIOS
menu, setting the clock with a "0" changes to "32". Same with the date, if
you set the day or month, it adds 32 to it.
The internal memory test reported a memory error at B800:0000 bit 5. This
seems to coincide with the BIOS "0" turning into 32 on screen.
When it eventually boots from the internal MS-DOS 3.3 ROM, it looks fine
until the screen starts to scroll. The character case of all text on the
screen changes from lower to upper case.
Anyone know how to map a bit 5 error to a component on the motherboard?
Would a memory map help here?
Longshot: anyone have a service manual for the Zenith MinisPort ZL-1 (or
ZL-2)?
Thanks,
Paul Rickards
biosrhythm.com
