May 2005: after over a year of downtime due to the IMP not being happy to run
under FreeBSD 5.x, SV is now back on the air.  It's still a bit shaky;
please let me know if you notice anything unusual.

**** IMPORTANT ****	**** IMPORTANT ****     **** IMPORTANT ****

SV is running ITS.  Please be very careful.
Keep your important data backed up elsewhere.

If you don't know what ITS is, you probably don't belong here.
There are no protections, and nothing prevents you from crashing
or killing the system altogether.

I have limited time to repair damage, whether caused by intent or accident;
if you bring the system down, it may stay down for quite a while.
The SV ITS system is available without any warranties implied or expressed,
and may be made unavailable at any any time without notice.

All available documentation is online, although finding it may take
time.  Try these commands to begin with:
	:HELP
	:?
	:INFO

Various items:

- It's now safe to run INQUIR
If you're not from MIT, simply leave the MIT-specific fields blank.

- Incoming NET-MAIL is again open, but port 25 is closed to the general public,
so mail must go thro the MX host.

- COMSAT seems a bit unreliable.
Sometimes when I send an email, it goes out right away; sometimes I get
a message from COMSAT that the email has been queued, and then it sits
in the queue, retrying every so often, filling up the telemetry file
with "FINISH call failed - DEVICE NOT READY...NSMBYE timed out".
On a few occasions, I've seen a queued mail get unstuck, sometimes weeks
later, and sent off, but I don't know what causes this.
As a workaround, I've removed the offending FINISH call
This may cause mail to get truncated, I'm note sure;
please let me know if you see that happening.

- SV is running on a KLH10 -- an emulated KS10 written in C and being
executed by an AMD P6-600 running FreeBSD.  It is a bit faster than a
real KS10, unless other FreeBSD processes take cycles away from the emulator.

- The old SV (hosted on a 2xP133 running Linux) has been renamed SX,
and can be reached from SV thru SUPDUP and MLDEV.

- Please e-mail any questions, problems or fixes to paul-its@svensson.org.

	/Paul

Please be aware that, by default, all files on SV are visible to
everyone with internet access who decides to look here.   To hide
a file from bots (search engines, etc.), you will need to edit
SV: .WWW.; ROBOTS .TXT
as described in http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html
This offers no guarantee of privacy, but it should make the file
much harder to find.

HIBOU

And don't forget to keep your important data backed up elsewhere.