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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!natinst.com!hrd769.brooks.af.mil!not-for-mail From: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: All these calendar files (Just the FAQ's, Mam) Date: 5 Apr 1993 08:41:31 -0500 Organization: Armstrong Lab MIS, Brooks AFB TX Lines: 65 Message-ID: <1ppcubINNitu@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> References: <38971@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hrd769.brooks.af.mil In article <38971@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> caedmon@pine.circa.ufl.edu writes: >Please forgive my ignorance, but my UNIX experience is meager: > Mine too. I am just writing/coordinating the FAQ. >1) Do I really need all these files of timezone stuff? I just installed >the BIN01 distribution on a "spare" ST157N scsi drive (49 Meg, 28ms) >and I want to have the bare essential of 386BSD while I get to know >it. > Sort of. The bindist does not know where you are going to be installing. Once you are installed, you can safely back them up to tape (or floppy) and keep just the one you use. >2) What is the correct and safe shutdown procedure? When I typed >'shutdown now' there was still a shell prompt. Is this right. > After 'shutdown now' you are returned to single user mode. The way I shutdown from there is 'sync; sync; sync; halt'. Remember the litany from the manual of armaments, concerning shuting down Unixen, '... and the count of the syncs shall be three, five is right out of there'. >3) How do I create a userid and password for myself. (Ok, I have >a bunch of UNIX books on the shelf, but hey, if your'e going to >write up a FAQ this should be at the top) > vipw. Add the password to the pw file with a blank passwd and then use passwd (-l if you have installed YP) to make the passwd. If you are using the stock 0.1 (without crypt), you can enter the password directly using vipw. >4) I have an ethernet card (WD8003) that 386BSD recognized. The >other computer attached is a 286 running MS-DOS/Windows 3.1. I >would like these two machines to talk over the ethernet. The >MS-DOS machine runs 10NET release 5.0 (which is a peer-to-peer >NETBUEI NOS). What are the chances of running a TCP/IP NETBIOS >stack to the 386BSD machine? What software do I need (free?)? > I access my machine from a 386 running 10-Net all the time. What level are you talking. Sharing files is not possible at this point (10-Net uses SMB File Sharing Protocol, bsd uses ONC). Logging in over the network is imminently do-able, as are most TCP-IP applications. >Actually, I have been poking around with XENIX on a Tandy-6000, >Coherent (both 286 and 386) and an account on one of the U of F's >Sun Sparc stations. All I know about UNIX is that it sure as >heck isn't very intuitive! > If it was hard to write, it should be hard to use. >Thanks, -- ------ TSgt Dave Burgess NCOIC AL/Management Information Systems Office Brooks AFB, TX