chouw@buster.cps.msu.edu (Wen Hwa Chou) (10/25/90)
Just a simple and quick question: Is there any way to prevent the user from changing the Time/Clock on the old Cube? Our account file looks really funny since anybody can change it as they like. And the NeXT looks really bad since they allow this to happen. BTW, is their any manual exist for NeXT? Most of the time when I look at some topics on the on line manual, I fond it marked as not available on-line. And also I have 2 thick Preliminary manual. They are next to useless for the system manager. I have sixteen old Cube in my lab, and going to get ~20 Slab pretty soon (within weeks.) But right now, for most of the functions I am responsible, I have to try to pretend they are just another Unix box. But they are not. And their are no documents talk about the differences. It is more than frustrated. I have already told some friends, all system integrators/government contractors type, that the NeXT is not ready yet. I think they need may another one or two years before they got their manual written. Sorry, maybe I should not use the SUN manual as the standard to compare with. Ooops, I said just a quick and simple question. Waste too much bandwith.
eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (10/26/90)
In article <1990Oct25.145031.28374@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> reid@cpswh.cps.msu.edu (Dr Richard J. Reid) writes: >Through "Preferences", at least, individual students on >our NeXT's reset and vary things that invalidate the >system accounting features as given by: ac -p -d. In article <1990Oct25.153836.1922@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> chouw@buster.cps.msu.edu (Wen Hwa Chou) writes: >Is there any way to prevent the user from changing the Time/Clock on >the old Cube? One of the first things you should have done when installing your 1.0/1.0a systems was # chmod 755 /NextApps/Preferences This has been mentioned repeatedly in the past on comp.sys.next, but for some reason isn't adequately covered in NextAnswers (perhaps someone needs to revise preferences.479?) If you're Internet-connected, get a copy of NTP (Network Time Protocol) and use that to set your clocks. Messed up accounting is the least of your problems. -=EPS=-
paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick) (10/27/90)
While we are on the subject of setting the clock, does anyone know of
a BSD-able program that will call up either the Naval Observatory or
the NBS modem time numbers and automatically set the system clock?
Thanks.
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