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#! rnews 1742 bsd Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!nb.rockwell.com!switch.rockwell.com!quayle From: quayle@switch.rockwell.com (Quayle_W.) Subject: Re: You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish Message-ID: <1995Aug24.042123.3589@nb.rockwell.com> Sender: news@nb.rockwell.com Reply-To: quayle@switch.rockwell.com Organization: Switching Systems Divison - Rockwell Telecommunications References: <405hjb$llr@news.jhu.edu> <4099s8$6ep@empire.texas.net> <x0n3d4d0yf.fsf@gemini.ee.ryerson.ca> <DDr2ty.E95@seas.ucla.edu> Distribution: inet Date: Thu, 24 Aug 1995 04:21:23 GMT Lines: 22 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:51824 comp.unix.solaris:44532 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:685 This still exists in SunOS: ...The program fails on a ioctl inquiry cycle and returns "Error code 25 (not a typewriter)" But whatever happened to "can't grok..."? Also found a small commentary on how someone at Sun felt about what they were being "persuaded" to do with SunOS: (from /etc/init.d/inetsvc) # # Run inetd in "standalone" mode (-s flag) so that it doesn't have # to submit to the will of SAF. Why did we ever let them change inetd? # -------------------------------------------------------- William R. Quayle | UNIX Systems Administration Rockwell Telecommunications| Switching Systems Division 1431 Opus Place | quayle@switch.rockwell.com MS 933-651 | VOICE (708) 960-8623 Downers Grove, IL 60515 | FAX (708) 960-9771 --------------------------------------------------------