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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!olivea!uunet!world!kseel From: kseel@world.std.com (kurt w seel) Subject: Re: :BSD386 v1.1 Questions, some easy some general Message-ID: <D2CpKv.HxI@world.std.com> Organization: The World @ Software Tool & Die X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <76.363.490.0N966F24@teaminfinity.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 1995 15:55:43 GMT Lines: 83 Sysop (sysop@teaminfinity.com) wrote: : We are using BSD386 version 1.1 and have some questions, NOT ALL of : which are BSDI specific. Any help on any of the questions is greatly : appreciated. : General UNIX questions: : How do we make a dialin line hangup when no keyboard activity has taken : place in say 5 minutes ? : Is there a way to limit the amount of time a user can stay connected ? I know of no system utility for doing these I accomplish it using an awk script I found in SysAdmin magazine, Vol.3 No.3. The article is called killidle revisited. The source is on FTP.UU.NET I don't remember the directory. : And lastly is there a way to watch someone else and what they are doing This is a problem I have been trying to solve myself for a while. The simple (bad) solution is to run the 'script' utility. It creates a log of all traffic , it doesn't work so well on curses based programs (try it , you'll see what I mean). : How do we set up accounting so that we can keep track of who : logged on and for how long etc ? Doesn't 'last' dothis on bsdi "out-of-the-box" ? : Somewhat BSD386 v1.1 Specific Questions: : General hints better than nothing. : Hi we are trying to use the a: drive and the CDROM drive and do not know : where to begin. One of the things we want to try and do is copy a : diskette in drive a: to a blank diskette in drive a: (after switching of : course) (We want to backup floppies completely, i.e. if the diskette was : bootable, we wnat the copy to be as well and these are UNIX diskettes, : i.e. the BSD floppies for example that shipped with our BSD 1.1) Try this ; dd if=/dev/fd0 of=tmp (switch disks) dd of=/dev/fd0 if=tmp : Also we would like to be able to access the CDROM, i.e. do an ls on it : and cp files from it etc. I don't understand what the problem here is. If it is mounted you can do these things ... : We suspect both of the above require mounting the drive first (a: or the : CD) : Also, how do we add another IDE hard drive to our system. What we : are running into is the root partition is 98% full, it even was : completely full at one time. WE used the recommended sizing in the : release notes, how did this fill up so quick ? What are these files and : can they be deleted: : core.tip : core.getty : core.login : core.* delete core files whenever you have time they are 99% useless, also depending on you shell you can prevent them being created. : Also, can all the ISODE files be deleted without affecting our internet : access, smtp, nntp, mosaic telnet, ftp etc stuff, i.e. what would we : need it for ? We know there are for OSI something or another but can : we delete them and still be able to be an "Internet" Server ? I don't have any ISODE on my machine and I run an internet service (I don't think you need them). : Thanks very much !!!, : Eric Sean Webber : sysop@TeamInfinity.com