Dear Managers,
I received responses from:
Stam Nicolis <nicolis_at_chiral.phys.univ-tours.fr>
Tom Webster <webster_at_ssdpdc.mdc.com>
Rainer Landes <rlandes_at_fphws01.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Alan B. Scott <star_at_staru1.livjm.ac.uk>
Becki Kain <beckers_at_josephus.furph.com>
With regard to the CERT bulletin about talkd, apparently DEC
Engineering is working on it. Here's Alan Scott's response, quoting
his DEC rep:
The latest update I have for you is that the Engineering group are
indeed aware of this advisory and are currently implementing a patch
kit to resolve it. I don't have any timescales at the moment though.
As soon as I hear anything further I'll let you know.
My problem with the HP III printer was traced to a cable
problem. One of our local techs has just been able to fix it.
With regard to obsolete libraries, only Tom Webster commented:
Should be fine.
I had intended to try this out but a week from hell (as my
wife would say) has gotten in the way. I'll post again if I encounter
problems.
Original post
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Dear Managers,
Three questions:
1. A couple of months back, there was a CERT bulletin indicating a
security bug in the talk daemon in DU. I mentioned it to DEC support while
calling about another patch; they sounded surprised to hear about it. Has
anyone received notice of a patch to talkd? Is there some public domain
drop-in I could use? I have some frustrated students around here; talk is
a major app!
2. An old LA75 printer I used to print text from my DU network has
essentially died. I was able to obtain a hand-me-down HP LaserJet III which
I attached to the serial port (/dev/tty00) on one of my 3000/300LXs. lpr
requests seem to be transmitted, but nothing comes out of the printer. The
/var/adm/lperr file is empty. I have used lprsetup, setting up both an
HPIIIP and an HPIIID; neither works (in fact, I can't see any differences in
the resulting printcap files). I tried changing the baud rate from 4800 to
9600 and back. A search of the archives for this list revealed plenty of
printcaps for HP IVs and Vs, but nothing for IIIs. I'm out of tricks. Help!
3. After installing DU v4.0 last summer, several of my DEC apps died
because of dependencies on obsolete libraries (for example, DECspin). I
noticed that the DU 4.0 CD had several software subsets containing obsolete
libraries. Will I clobber the current versions by installing the obsolete
subsets or can I install these safely?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Larry
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Larry Griffith Dept. of Computer & Info Science
larry_at_garfield.wsc.mass.edu Westfield State College
(413) 572-5294 Westfield, MA 01086 USA
PGP public key available at:
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Received on Wed Mar 26 1997 - 18:04:19 NZST