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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!werple.apana.org.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!purdue!mozo.cc.purdue.edu!staff.cc.purdue.edu!bj From: bj@staff.cc.purdue.edu (Ben Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD-2.0R quirks Date: 1 Dec 1994 22:55:31 GMT Organization: Purdue University Lines: 17 Message-ID: <3blk93$m53@mozo.cc.purdue.edu> References: <3bli7f$2gp@nic-nac.csu.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: staff.cc.purdue.edu In article <3bli7f$2gp@nic-nac.csu.net>, JL Gomez <jgomezr@neptune.uucp> wrote: >1) The /tmp directory needed to be chmod 777 so chsh can work >for ordinary users. Try 1777 so they can't clobber eachother's files. >3) The SCSI tape backup is slow compared to Linux. On Linux, it >just streams. I did a tar -x -b 128 -f /dev/rst0. The tape >drive just starts and stops. I believe (off the top of my head) that the max SCSI transfer is 126 blocks, not 128. I know at Purdue we back up hundreds of machines to hundreds of SCSI tape drives and they all use a blocking factor of 126. -- Ben Jackson