Comment everything out and the question becomes, is the box still usable? Also it may be desirable to leave either telnet or ssh running, but move them to a non-standard port. That way he can access his own system remotely. Zane

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote: maybe I'm just being dense, but wouldn't the easiest solution be to just not give others accounts on your box?? bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote: If you could do the inetd playing that has also been suggested, I assume you have root privs. Ergo, add your self as a local user and remove the NIS magic cookie from the end of your password file. This is by far less crippling than the other suggestions which not only keep others out, but you as well. bill -- Bill Gunshannon | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves bill(a)cs.scranton.edu | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. University of Scranton | Scranton, Pennsylvania | #include <std.disclaimer.h>

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Eric J. Korpela wrote: Does Solaris inetd automatically reread /etc/inetd.conf? If not, you'll also have to kill -HUP the inetd process (or reboot the machine). -- ------- Alex Holden ------- http://www.linuxhacker.org/ http://www.robogeeks.org/

Gene Buckle wrote: This wont work as nologin is just a message file (similar to motd) whenever the system is about to shutdown. Ram -- ,,,, /'^'\ ( o o ) -oOOO--(_)--OOOo------------------------------------- | Ram Meenakshisundaram | | Senior Software Engineer | | OpenLink Financial Inc | | .oooO Phone: (516) 227-6600 x267 | | ( ) Oooo. Email: rmeenaks(a)olf.com | ---\ (----( )-------------------------------------- \_) ) / (_/

Are you sure this wasn't a DECsystem 5500? -- Eric Dittman dittman(a)dittman.net

Greetings, How many here are familiar with a company called "Craters and Freighters"? It looks like a good alternative to UPS, etc. for shipping classic computers, and they appear interested in offering better protection, as well as better insurance, for electronic equipment, as well as other things such as antiques. The person that I purchased a DEC VAX 4000 from is shipping it through them; I'll let the group know how it arrives. Their web site is www.cratersandfreighters.com. -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

On Thu, 19 Apr 2001 healyzh(a)aracnet.com wrote: This VAX 4000-200 is just in one cabinet; the shipping cost from Texas was around US$170. The system looked like it was full of boards and has a couple of DSSI drives in it; no SCSI, alas. BTW, is there anyone who can use some assorted weird IBM stuff, such as a smallish processor unit for bank branches that connects to mainframe, and a few small about 9" diagonal, IIRC, monitors? It's taking up space that I need for other things, but I don't want to toss it out. It's got an 8" floppy drive, and perhaps with some hacking, it could be used as some sort of controller for something or other. I really don't want to have to ship this - I'm in the Baltimore area. Is anyone interested in some sort of trade for this? -- Copyright (C) 2001 R. D. Davis The difference between humans & other animals: All Rights Reserved an unnatural belief that we're above Nature & rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 her other creatures, using dogma to justify such http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd beliefs and to justify much human cruelty.

That would be the DECSystem 5500, a MIPS based PMAX (not a VAX). I've got a dead BA400 chassis for one :-) --Chuck At 06:43 PM 4/19/01 -0700, you wrote: