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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.
