🚀 go-pugleaf

>From: Craig Lanning <lanning@scra.org>
>Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 14:03:45 -0400 (EDT)
>To: Mike McDonald <mikemac@mikemac.com>
>Subject: telnet and lpd (and backups)
>
>Mike McDonald writes:
> > 
> >   I'm trying to telnet (and rsh) into my XL1201 but I'm getting
> > "Connection refused". Can somebody tell me what I forgot to set?
>
>Genera knows nothing about rsh.  Telnet will work if nobody is logged
>in on the XL1201 or if net:remote-login-on is set to T.

  Genera used to know about rsh. I think the service is called EXEC on
the lispm side. I used to do 'rsh lispm "Start X Server Unix-box"' all
of the time. That's what I'm trying to get to again. My current
problem seems to be the secure-subnet "feature".


> >   Anybody know why I can't read an old backup tape. I can list all of
> > the files and thier properties from it but the lispm can't read any of
> > the file contents. This backup was made on 8/4/88, if that matters.
> > There's not that much that I want off of it except my lispm-inti file! 
>
>10 years is a long time for magnetic media.  Probably suffered major
>bit rot.

  I doubt it's bit rot, at least not on the tapes. I'd find it
extremely unlikely that no bits rotted in any of the headers but all
of the bits in the all the files did rot. I'm guessing some kind of
incompatibility, like someone changed a bit in the restore code
sometime. Or something like that.

  Mike McDonald
  mikemac@mikemac.com