I hate seeing these kind of messages on mailing lists, but here goes...
I've just been landed with an Alpha 1000. It's running D.U.3.2. I have
no experience with this O/S, and am looking for some answers that don't
appear in the FAQ.
1) How can I stop the console going into X-Windows mode? I have nothing
against X or Motif, but it is far too easy to put little traps around,
than can create a setuid shell, and my users just might do that kind of
thing. I do not like logging into this as root, even if it's only to
shutdown. I'd much prefer it to stay in some kind of serial / dumb
terminal mode.
2) I can't seem to get the CDROM mounted. It's there as a device, but
doing the manual bit, it says this:-
rrz4c: character special (8/4098) SCSI #0 RRD43 disk #32 (SCSI ID #4)
offline
I guess the question is, how do I get it to go on-line? FWIW, there is a
CD in the drive.
3) How do I stop the machine starting the nsrd RPC-based services. In
fact, where are the boot scripts in general? I've found the rc.config,
but that's the only rc file I can find. Not like any other Unix flavour
I admin :-)
TIA
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Unix Systems Administrator | commitment" * "You can't just call time-out
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Received on Wed Nov 01 1995 - 14:10:47 NZDT