As more and more people start using SSH in place of Telnet, I am seeing more and more confusion over the way that the SSH daemon treats password warning, expiration, and grace times.
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Recently while troubleshooting a connection problem this question arose. The OpenVOS system was connecting to a public Internet facing server.
Making Things Too Easy – Part 2 – The Evils of list_messages for Server Queues; how to use check_queue_depth to monitor queues.
I have never forgotten the way I installed my first change (and my first bug) into Multics. Read on to hear my story.
The following STCP code fragment demonstrates a problem that I have observed. It blocks on the recv call until there is data to read, then it processes the received data and calls recv again which will either return with more data (or an error) or block.
I just ported the lzip file compression utility program to OpenVOS. Read on for more information.
The other day I came across a program that allowed me to select from a prepackaged set of queries and then communicated with a server to retrieve the answer to the selected query.
I maintain a document that describes the best practices for porting open-source code to VOS or OpenVOS. Read on for more information.
Unless good records are kept when VOS products are installed, determining the revision of all the products on a module can be a daunting task.