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From: jason@cbmami.UUCP (Jason Goldberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
Subject: A3000UX help
Message-ID: <18c48a19.ARN0eb8@cbmami.UUCP>
Date: 3 Mar 91 08:59:53 GMT
Reply-To: jason@cbmami.UUCP
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Well now that I have my Amiga Network up and running I just have a few
stupid questions, that maybee someone could answer for me.  As you will no
doubt note from my questions, I am not too Unix proficient.

1.  Unix (on out A3000UX) seems to truncate names to 14 chars, this
presents a minor problem when using it as a file server for AmigaDos
machines, since any filename longer than 9 chars will have its icon
truncated.  Is there any solution/workaround for this.

2.  I'm sure that there is a file under SysVr4 Unix which is the equivelent
of S:startup-sequence.  I need a file which is executed when the machine
boots-up, not when someone logs in.  What I am really looking for is the
best way to execute the command:

	"Share /AmigaDos"

Everytime the machine is tuned on, so that it will serve as a fileserver
for out network.

3.  Often when I "cat" a file which turns out to contain binary, my
terminal gets confused and starts to display in all the strange ASCII
characters, is there a simple way to revert back to normal.

4.  At one point out A3000UX was turned off before it was shutdown, now
everytime we boot it, it goes through an 8 minute process of confirming the
integraty of the file system.  It looks something like:

	Phase 1...looking for loose files
	Phase 2...  [etc...]

all the way through Phase 8, then it continues with the normal boot
sequence, and finally is ready to go.  It did not do this before someone
turned off the power.

4b. On a related point, I have been shutting down with:

	shutdown -y -g0 -i0

and waiting until I get a logon prompt in init0 mode, before turning off
the power, is this the proper way?

Thanks very much for any help,


-Jason-

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Jason Goldberg				UUCP: ucsd!serene!cbmami!jason
Del Mar, CA