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- From: andrew@tamarix.demon.co.uk (Andrew Josey)
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- Subject: UnixWare Frequently Asked Questions (Overview)
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- UnixWare Frequently Asked Questions (Overview)
-
- Introduction
-
- This is the Overview section of the UnixWare Frequently Asked Questions
- file maintained on the Internet for the Usenet newsgroup
- comp.unix.unixware.misc. Its maintainer is Andrew Josey
- (andrew@tamarix.demon.co.uk). Suggestions and contributions are always
- welcome.
-
- This document and the other FAQ files may be found on the world wide web at
- http://www.freebird.org/faq/
-
- This document may also be obtained by anonymous ftp from the freebird
- archive at
-
- o ftp.freebird.org:/unixware/freebird/hints/FAQ/overview
- o ftp1.freebird.org:/pub/mirror/freebird/hints/FAQ/overview
- o ftp2.freebird.org:/pub/unixware/freebird/hints/FAQ/overview
-
- Small print: This file is Copyright 1996 freebird.org. Permission is
- granted for copying for non-commercial use. Many proper names of
- companies and software mentioned in these files are trademarks of their
- respective owners. All views are those of the individual contributors
- and not of their employers.
-
- This article is posted monthly around the middle of the month.
-
- The FAQ is divided into the following categories:
-
-
- * (O) Overview, this document describing other documents which compose the
- total UnixWare FAQ and pointers to other UnixWare resources.
- * (D) Developer, for items of interest to software developers/programmers
- * (A) Autoconfiguration, describing use of the Device Configuration Utility(DCU)
- * (M) Mailsurr, describing the Email system
- * (T) Troubleshooting, describing installation and miscellaneous topics
- * (G) General, for items of nonspecific interest
- * (N) How to setup Networking.
-
- A Meta FAQ is now available - see http://www.freebird.org/faq/meta.html.
-
- (The following are now looking a bit dated and could do with
- an update)
-
- * (U) User, for items of interest to general users
- * (S) SysAdmin, for items of interest to UnixWare system administrators
-
- Each of these category is now a separate file; together, along with this
- overview, they are the UnixWare FAQ. They are posted to the Internet
- newsgroups comp.unix.unixware.misc and comp.unix.unixware.announce, and
- related groups, including news.answers and comp.answers, roughly once a
- month. Readers of these files with access to the Internet should be able
- to find them archived in the news.answers archive at rtfm.mit.edu and
- available by anonymous ftp (we're still working on this and
- hope to get this sorted real soon now). Its location is:
-
-
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/unix-faq/unixware/
-
- Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) versions of these documents may be
- found at the following locations:
-
- http://photobooks.gatech.edu/
-
- ftp://www.calvacom.fr/Unixware/
-
- [Please note , that due to the recent transition to split the FAQ
- there may be some delay before the archive versions make it to rtfm.mit.edu
- and also before the HTML versions appear]
-
- These FAQs can also be obtained by email from the Novell UK mail server
- by the the following method:
-
- * Send email to mail-server@novell.co.uk.
- * Send the following as the text of the message (the subject is unimportant):
-
- begin
- send hints/FAQ/comp.unix.unixware.FAQ
- end
-
-
-
- UnixWare RESOURCE POINTERS
-
- This section gives pointers to other UnixWare resources.
- Suggestions and contributions to be added to this section
- are always welcome.
-
- O1) Where can I get Freeware and shareware for UnixWare?
- O2) Where can I get Information on setting up Internet Services on UnixWare?
- O3) What is PDF and where can I get a PDF viewer for UnixWare?
- O4) Where is the comp.unix.unixware.misc news archive?
-
-
-
- Subject: O1) Where can I get Freeware and shareware for UnixWare?
-
- The Freebird archive (from ftp.freebird.org) is a set of unsupported freeware
- software ported to UnixWare. Sources and binaries are included, often the
- binaries are in pkgadd format for ease of installation.
-
- See http://www.freebird.org for more information about the
- Freebird archive - also note that there are plans afoot to
- make the archive available on CD-ROM.
-
-
-
- Subject: O2) Where can I get Information on setting up Internet Services
- on UnixWare?
-
- A list of pointers to freely available information is included below
-
- --> See also http://www.freebird.org/uwinetkit.html
-
- In this issue, all the resources can be located in the
- Freebird archive and can be obtained by a number of ways:
-
- Electronic mail, WWW and Ftp
-
- A pointer is given below as a relative pathname within the Freebird
- archive, see later section on how to access the archive. Relative
- pathnames are prefixed by an identifier to let you know if its
- a file or a directory , for example:
- file: path/to/file
-
- What's covered in this resource guide?
-
- (* - new/changed in this issue)
-
- (0) UnixWare 2 As an Internet Access Server (HTML Presentation)
- (1) World Wide Web (WWW)
- (2) File Transfer Protocol (ftp)
- (3) Gopher
- (4) Wide Area Information Service (wais)
- (5) Domain Name Service (DNS)
- (6) Bootp server *
- (7) Electronic Mail
- (8) Usenet news (netnews)
- (9) Post Office Protocol (POP)
- (10) Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
- (11) Archie, Xarchie
- (12) Service Wrappers
- (13) Ftp Mirror tool.
- (14) Firewall Tools
- (15) Sendmail for UnixWare
-
- (0) UnixWare 2 As an Internet Access Server (HTML Presentation)
-
- This gives an overview on setting up UnixWare as an internet access server.
-
- This talk given at Brainshare 95 (Novell's annual technical conference)
- describes how UnixWare can be used as an Internet Access Server. It
- gives examples of services provided by an internet server,
- it compares and contrasts the options for physical connections
- to the access provider and then gives details on setting up
- the following services on UnixWare:
-
- Anonymous ftp, HyperText Protocol Daemon (World Wide Web Server),
- Gopher, Electronic Mail, Post Office Protocol, Usenet News,
- Domain Name Service, Bootp protocol, TCP Service Wrappers.
-
- The talk is provided in Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) which allows
- it to be viewed using a World Wide Web Browser, such as Mosaic or
- Netscape.
- directory: internet/howto/
-
-
- (1) World Wide Web (WWW)
- ========================
-
- There are several WWW servers available:
- CERN httpd - supports proxy and caching features which can
- reduce network traffic, yet improve client response times,
- we recommend this version for proxy and caching.
- directory: internet/server/cern-httpd
-
- Apache httpd: - supports virtual hosts, now the most
- widely used server, recommended as the main
- server.
- directory: internet/server/apache-httpd
-
- NCSA httpd - another widely used http server on the internet
- directory: internet/server/ncsa-httpd
-
- Howto setup the CERN http is documented in
- file: hints/WWW
-
- A sample configuration file showing how to setup proxy, caching
- and access control to certain html documents is given in:
- file: httpd-3.0.sample.config
-
-
- How can I easily generate clickable images (imagemaps)?
- There's a tool called mapedit
- directory: internet/server/webtools
-
- WWW browsers:
-
- Mosaic the X11 based browser
- directory: internet/client/mosaic
-
- Lynx - a character based browser
- directory: internet/client/lynx
-
-
- (2)File Transfer Protocol (ftp)
- ===============================
-
- Howto setup an anonymous ftp server is documented in
- file: hints/Networking/anon-ftp
-
- If you want to mount files from your Netware server and share
- them for anonymous ftp :
- file: hints/Networking/anon-ftp.nw
-
- Of course you could let our package set it all up for you by using
- our binary of the University of Washington FTP daemon
- directory: internet/server/wuftpd
-
- A graphical ftp client (xgetftp) can be found in
- directory: internet/client/nettools
- An alternate graphical client can be found in
- directory: internet/client/xdir
-
- An alternative character based client (ncftp) which supports ETA
- and some other features:
- directory: internet/client/ncftp
-
- (3)Gopher
- =========
-
- A menu based file retrieval system. A binary of the University
- of Minnesota gopher daemon is available, which includes the
- character based gopher client
- directory: internet/server/gopherd
-
- The Xgopher client is in
- directory: internet/client/xgopher
-
-
- (4)Wide Area Information Service (wais)
- ========================================
-
- Source and binaries of freeWAIS-0.3 is available. This includes character based
- and X based clients for wais querying.
- directory: internet/server/wais
-
-
- (5)Domain Name Service (DNS)
- ============================
-
- Howto setup Domain Nameservice
- directory: hints/Networking/DNS
- file: hints/Networking/DNS/README.FIRST
-
- Bind-4.9.23-beta24 can be used to update the in.named provided
- with UnixWare 2.x
- directory: internet/server/bind
-
- (6)Bootp server
- ================
-
- Howto setup a bootp server (this gives pointers to some sample
- bootptab files and the relevant rfc's).
- file: hints/Networking/bootp/README
-
- Enhanced versions of the bootp daemon that include extra logging
- to the syslog daemon - useful to get notice when unknown machines
- put out bootp requests.
- directory: internet/server/bootpd
-
- There's also a version of bootp patched with dhcp support:
- directory: internet/server/bootp-dhcp
-
- (7)Electronic Mail
- ==================
-
- Hints, tips and tools for setting up electronic mail on UnixWare, including
- how to work around various problems you may encounter.
- file: hints/Mail/README
- file: hints/FAQ/comp.unix.unixware.FAQ.m
-
- How to setup Email over PPP :
- file: hints/Mail/mailviappp
-
- If you don't like mailx or dtmail, a couple of popular alternatives
- are available for reading email: elm, pine
- directory: mailtools/
-
-
- (8)Usenet news (netnews)
- ========================
-
- Howto setup Cnews
- file: hints/Netnews/netnews.readme
-
- Howto setup Netnews via PPP
- file: hints/Netnews/README.FIRST
-
- Server software (news, nntp, slurp - all in pkgadd format):
- directory: netnews/server/
-
- Netnews readers available:
-
- A X11 news reader
- directory: netnews/client/xrn
-
- Tin - a threaded character based news reader
- directory: netnews/client/
-
- Knews - a graphical thread news reader
- directory: netnews/client/
-
- (9)Post Office Protocol (POP)
- =============================
-
- Howto setup POP
- file: hints/Mail/POP
-
-
- Various POPpers for UnixWare are available also:
- pop3-ucdavies - the original POP3 from UC Davies, source and binaries.
-
- qualcomm - the qualcomm popper based on the UC Davies version, which
- has enhancements for robustness - source and binaries,
- a new addition to this directory is an updated popper daemon that
- supports APOP (authenticated POP, essential if you are using POP
- across the internet).
-
- imap - The University of Washington has put out a set of daemons that
- support both POP2 and POP3, plus a new enhanced mail daemon that
- is called IMAP. Source and binaries, including a pentium version
- of the binaries as well as non-pentium.
-
- directory: mailtools/popper
-
- (10) Point to Point Protocol (PPP)
- ===================================
-
- Tips on setting up PPP, include a wksh script to assist.
- file: hints/Networking/PPP/README.FIRST
- directory: hints/Networking/PPP
- How to setup mail over PPP.
- file: hints/Mail/mailviappp
- How to setup Netnews over PPP.
- file: netnews/server/README.FIRST
-
- (11) Archie, Xarchie
- ====================
-
- Tools for querying archie databases and graphical ftp
- directory: internet/client/nettools
-
- (12) Service Wrappers
- ======================
-
- There's a set of service wrappers for controlling access to
- TCP/SPX services :
- directory: internet/servers/tcp-wrappers
-
- (13) Mirror tools
- =================
-
- An ftp mirror utility for UnixWare, that performs a mirror
- of a remote directory from a remote ftp site to a local site.
- File and directories are deleted on the local machine when required,
- symbolic links are also mirrored.
- directory: internet/server/mirror
-
-
- (14) Firewall Tools
- =================
- A port of the TIS Firewall Toolkit for Unixware 2 is available.
-
- directory: internet/server/fwtk
-
- (15) Sendmail for UnixWare
- ==========================
-
- A port of Sendmail v8.7.x for UnixWare 2 is available in pkgadd
- form.
-
- directory: mailtools/sendmail
-
- Subject: O3) What is PDF and where can I get a PDF viewer for UnixWare?
-
- PDF is Adobe's portable document format. SCO and many other
- companies are starting to distribute documents in this format.
- A PDF viewer for UnixWare, called xpdf is available on
- ftp://ftp.xopen.org/pub/PDF/xpdf.
-
- Subject: O4) Where is the comp.unix.unixware.misc news archive?
-
- A free-text searchable new archive can be found at
- http://www.freebird.org/cgi-bin/freebird/newssearch.pl.
-
-
- -----
- Andrew Josey, Disclaimer: Any views expressed are not those of
- my employer, either past, present or future.
-