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From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer)
Subject: 386bsd server now available on internet.
Message-ID: <1992Oct23.085002.11974@tfs.com>
Organization: TRW Financial Systems
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1992 08:50:02 GMT
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I have placed one of my 386bsd machines outside of our gateway
to make it generally available to the internet's 386bsd community.
It runs reliably nad seems to be preperly set up. It is connected
directly to UCB by a T1 and so should have good connectivity.
My aim is to make this machine a 'reference machine' for 386bsd.
If you have a package that you have ported to 386bsd and would like
to have it installed on the reference machine 'just so' then feel
free to log in as 'guest' and set yourself up.
It is also available as a compile engine to those who do not have
enough free space or cpu to compile their own kernels etc.
in each case, log in as 'guest' and leave me mail so I can add you
to the passwd file.
people wanting to install packages that feel that they will need root
permissions to do so should let me know by sending mail to 'julian'
on that machine, and they will be set up to allow this.
People who wish to 'try 386bsd on for size' are invited to log on
and look around.
I believe that this machine is vulnerable as is any
unix machine available on the internet. There should not be any
challenge to smashing this machine so please refrain
from doing so: As I said, root is available for anyone that
asks for it, and you are asked to not use it unless needed, just to
stop too many accidentally deleted directories etc.
The machine is:
ref.tfs.com (140.145.254.251)
it is a 50MHz EISA 486 with a 1.3MB drive attached via a Bustek 742a SCSI2
adapter. It has 16MB of ram. Part of the disk (about 200MB is taken up
by mach2.6 and is unavailable to 386bsd.
some of the packages I am hoping people can set up in
the reference system include:
X11
gcc2.2.2
(g++?)
news
The sources have been patched up to patch 59 but one of them
seems to have introduced a problem. I will make a down-rev kernel tree
avaialable as well, and will persue the 'bad patch' as soon as possible
I have not compiled all the sorces available on this machine, but
have done all the system utilities etc (/sbin /usr/sbin /bin /usr/bin)
This machine has a 1.3MB DAT drive and I will attempt to make
backups of it every few days.
shar files for my scsi, boot, and fdisk releases are available in my home
directory on this machine also.
julian
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