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From: ford@elgar.UUCP (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: What's the OBM good for?
Message-ID: <176@elgar.UUCP>
Date: 8 Jun 88 04:22:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: elgar.176
References: <380@icus.UUCP> <536@sialis.mn.org> <5740@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: ford@elgar.UUCP (Mike "Ford" Ditto)
Organization: Omnicron Data Systems,  Bonita, CA
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Summary: All the above And More...

In article <5740@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> randy@umn-cs.UUCP (Randy Orrison) writes:
>I've been hearing bad things about the OBM.  Is there anything that it's
>safe to use it for?   posibilities:
>	*  dial out uucp	\  which is unsafe, or both?
>	*  dial in uucp		/
>	*  other dial out (me)
>	*  non-uucp dial in (normal users)

I use it for all the above with no problems.  I am even able to use it
for dialling out to another system which has a dialback security modem,
something which is usually more difficult than any of the above.

I dial out with cu at least once a day, receive dialin user logins at
least twice a day, and make about 5 uucp connections per hour (about
half dialout, half dialin).

On the other hand, a friend's 3b1 system was used similarly and would
crash with a kernel panic about three times a week.  Mine is typically
up for a month at a time.  I attribute my success to clean living and
to not running the stupid /etc/ph program.

					-=] Ford [=-

"Once there were parking lots,		(In Real Life:  Mike Ditto)
now it's a peaceful oasis.		ford%kenobi@crash.CTS.COM
This was a Pizza Hut,			...!sdcsvax!crash!kenobi!ford
now it's all covered with daisies." -- Talking Heads