Hello Rich,
I tried emailing you directly, but I don't think you got my message. I'm still here and looking for some ArcNET cards if any have turned up in your closet.
Thank You,
Jonathan
>Hello all,
> I had a HDD failure and I lost all of my emails going back 3 years.
>There was a gentleman that was looking for Arcnet cards. Could you
>please recontact me?
>GOD Bless and Thanks,
>rich!
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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Hi Paul,
Thanks for posting some Y2K fixes and enhancements for DECnet/E under
RSTS/E.
I've also used the Bitsavers source files for RSTS/E V10.1 to fix a Y2K bug
with handling RT-11 Y2k3 dates by the FIT program.
Are you interested in including my patched FIT.TSK for RSTS/E along with
your fixes. I could also provide my modified BASIC-Plus source code to FIT
too (but releasing this too may have copyright limitations).
Also I remember seeing a Y2K patch kit from Mentec for RSTS/E V10.1 on a
TK50 tape. I don't have a copy of it - but I think it also had some
additional Y2K fixes. You wouldn't also have some of these too?
Thanks in advance.
Tony
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Tony Nicholson <tony.nicholson at computer.org>
On 6/28/20 6:48 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience with UUCP on macOS or *BSD systems that
> would be willing to help me figure something out?
I ended up getting this to work.
I don't know if it was a macOSism or a *BSDism, but the root of the
problem was crossing between users via setuid / setgid in relation to
OpenSSH.
Two different versions of macOS behaved differently.
macOS Yosemite 10.10.5 runs the underlying ssh pipe command as the user
account that initiates the uucp / uuto / uux.
macOS Catalina 10.15.15 runs the underlying ssh pipe command as the
_uucp user, NOT the account that initiates the uucp / uuto / uux.
As such, on macOS Yosemite 10.10.5, I have to have the normal user's ssh
public key in the authorized_keys file on the remote system.
Conversely, on macOS Catalina 10.15.15, I have to have the _uucp user's
ssh public key in the authorized_keys file on the remote system.
I don't know why macOS Yosemite 10.10.5 and macOS Catalina 10.15.15 are
behaving differently, but they are.
These inconsistencies made identifying which client ssh config file --
nominally ~/.ssh/config -- was used cumbersome.
For some unknown reason, I couldn't rely on "~/" or defaults to specify
the _uucp user's key (Identity) file or the known_hosts file on macOS
Catalina 10.15.15, despite the fact that it was running as the _uucp
user. I ended up having to hard code the paths, as they were defaulting
to the original user account that initiated the uucp / uuto / uux.
I can only surmise that something is fundamentally different between
Linux and macOS in how it does things when changing user accounts via
setuid & setgid as I did not have any of these problems on multiple
Linux machines. I can further surmise that something is different
between macOS Yosemite 10.10.5 and macOS Catalina 10.15.15. I don't
know if this is related to System Integrity Protection or something else.
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Hey guys,
I was a regular poster and reader on the list many years ago. During
that time, I collected a few HP computers and Tape drives and a bunch of
other "junk".
Well the time has come for me to unload some of the equipment and I'd
really like it to go to someone that has an appreciation for what is it.
Currently I have 6 HP 21mx computers and about 30 I/O cards to move. I
also have 4 7980 (or similar) auto-loading tape drives. They are top
loading with HPIB interfaces. I also have a HP 9000 800/F20 computer
that dual boots HPUX 10.20 or HPUX 11.0. from a SCSI array. It has
ethernet, HPIB, and SCSI cards.
It been a few years since I powered up this stuff. Everything has been
stored indoors in a clean environment so I expect it to be fuctional. As
far as I can tell everything is in EXCELLENT condition!
This stuff is located in western North Carolina not far from Asheville.
Because of the size, this would require local pickup. I do not have the
means or inclination to ship.
Notice I am not giving them away but will consider reasonable offers on
any single item or multiple items.
If interested, please contact me directly.
Thanks, Steve Robertson
steerex at ccvn.com
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
