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NOTICE:

   This server provides access to the official patches for BSD/OS.

   All patches are Copyright 1995 Berkeley Software Design, Inc., 
   all rights reserved.  Other copyrights may apply to some patches.

   Access to this server is available to BSDI customers with valid
   support contracts only.


AUTHENTICATION:

   This server uses your return email address (or customer ID or
   specified path -- see the CUST and PATH commands below) to validate
   your request against the BSDI customer database.  If it determines
   you have a valid service contract, it will return a group name
   and password that may be used to access the patches via the
   ftp.BSDI.COM ftp server, or you may use `SEND' commands (see
   below) to retrieve them via email.

   If the server reports that it could not resolve your address
   into a customer ID, please use either the CUST or PATH commands
   to specify your customer number or the correct official email
   point-of-contact, or contact BSDI at ftpmail-admin at bsdi.com or
   719-593-2082 to correct your database entry.

   Expired contracts or warranties may be renewed through the
   distributor from which the software was purchased if international,
   or by calling BSDI at 719-593-2082.

   All responses are sent to the officially registered email address
   for your customer ID.  For example, say your customer ID was
   X1234 and your officially registered email address was joe at foo.com.
   If you send mail to the server from joe at host.foo.com, the server
   will NOT be able to validate the request.  If you specify either
   `cust X1234' or `path joe at foo.com' in the message you send to
   the server, the server will correctly validate your service
   contract and the return mail will be sent to the official address,
   in this case, joe at foo.com.  YOU CANNOT SPECIFY AN ALTERNATE
   DESTINATION -- mail from the server will ALWAYS go to the
   officially registered address ONLY.  If you wish to change the
   officially registered address for your customer ID (or if you
   never registered one), contact BSDI at the email address or
   phone number listed above.


FTP ACCESS:

   The URL ftp://ftp.bsdi.com/bsdi/patches directory (a.k.a. 
   ftp.bsdi.com:/bsdi/patches in the old notation) provides
   access to all the same files as this patch server.  Many 
   of the patches (security related fixes, other critical fixes)
   are available via anonymous ftp.  While anonymous users can 
   see the names of all the patches in that directory, some
   of the patches require additional authentication before they
   may be retrieved.

   If your email address or customer ID is associated with a valid
   service contract, the message returned by the patches server
   will contain lines similar to:

	FTP-group:	xxxxxxx
	Password:	yyyyyyy

   This group/password combination may be used to access the
   restricted patches in the archive on the ftp.BSDI.COM server.
   All group/password combinations expire at 2am US/Mountain time
   each day, so you must obtain a new group/password each day you
   wish to access the ftp version of the archive.  

   If you send multiple requests to the patches server, each request
   will issue a different password for ftp.  The most recent request
   will always be the valid password and the older passwords will
   no longer enable access.

   Once you have a valid group/password combination, you can access the 
   server using the following procedure:

	o Connect to ftp.bsdi.com and log in as `anonymous' (or `ftp')
	  and present your email address as a password.

	o Enable access to the patches directory by giving the `site group'
	  and `site gpass' commands (you type the parts after the ftp> 
	  prompt -- the server should respond as shown):

		ftp> site group xxxxxxx
		200 Request for access to group xxxxxxx accepted.
		ftp> site gpass yyyyyyy
		200 Group access enabled.

	o You should now be able to `cd' to the patches directory 
	  and use `ls',  `get', and/or `mget' commands to list and 
	  retrieve files.

   If the server refuses access because it cannot reverse resolve
   your host name, you can always use e-mail access.  We will not
   make exceptions for people who cannot configure DNS correctly
   (even if it's your service provider's fault -- complain to them,
   not to BSDI).  Patches are available via email to patches at bsdi.com
   (this server).  Access to the regular anonymous archive on
   ftp.bsdi.com is available via email to ftpmail at bsdi.com.

   Some FTP clients do not support the `site' command.  If you get
   an error similar to `invalid command' when attempting to use
   the site command, the problem is with your client, not the
   server.  Some ftp clients (including virtually all 4.2BSD derived 
   clients) support the `quote' command which can be used to send 
   arbitrary commands (including site commands).  E.g.: 
                
	ftp> quote site group xxxxxxx
   
   If that fails, try a more up-to-date client (like the one included
   with BSD/OS) or use the patches at bsdi.com mail-back server.


EMAIL ACCESS:

   Access to patches is also available via this mail-back server.  See
   the command reference below for a complete list of the commands
   accepted by this server.

   Lines of the form:

	send filename			(if the file is at the top level)
	send directory/filename		(if the file is in a subdirectory)

    will cause the server to send you the requested file.  The file
    will be split into pieces if it exceeds 64K bytes or the size
    specified by a `limit' command.

    The patches themselves are typically sorted into subdirectories
    (see the index file for the ls -R listing of files available 
    from the server -- retrieve the index with `send index').
    For example, to retrieve the U210-001 patch for the 2.1 release, 
    you would use the command:

	send patches-2.1/U210-001

    The most common problems with email access are caused by specifying 
    the filename incorrectly (case IS significant) or by appending a 
    signature file to the commands without specifying the `end' command
    (some signature files will confuse the server enough that it won't
    even respond at all).

    Hints for retrieving files via email:

	CASE IS SIGNIFICANT IN FILE NAMES.  The file named `foo'
	is a different file than the file named `FOO' is a different
	file than one named `FoO', etc.  You must request the 
	correct name of the file.

	IF YOU SEND THE SERVER A REQUEST AND IT RESPONDS WITH A 
	MESSAGE SAYING THE PARTICULAR FILE WAS `Unknown', YOU REQUESTED
	A NON-EXISTENT FILE AND NOTHING WILL BE SENT TO YOU.  You don't
	need to wait for hours or days and then send mail to ftpmail-admin.
	You SHOULD request the file `index' and determine the correct
	name of the file you want.

	The server typically responds within seconds of receiving
	a request.  Large files (or files split into many pieces)
	often take longer, but if you receive the `your request has
	been processed' message and don't start receiving the files
	right away, check the message you did receive to make sure
	the server could find the files and that none of them
	were `Unknown'.

	The file `index' contains the list of file names available 
	in the archive.  Use the command: 
		send index
	to retrieve it..

	Many (most) mail paths can handle larger chunks than 64K 
	(which will save you having to reassemble files).  You can 
	change the limit with the `limit' command:
		limit 1024k
	will increase the limit on a single message to 1 megabyte
	(the maximum limit).

	There are two scripts meant to help you reassemble the
	pieces of a file (unpack.pl and unpack.sh) retrieve them
	from the server with the commands:
		send unpack.sh
		send unpack.pl

	If you save all the message pieces into a single file (no
	need to strip off the headers) and run either of these
	scripts on the file it will recreate the original file from
	the server:
		perl unpack.pl < file
			or
		sh unpack.sh < file

COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS/PROBLEMS:

Please address any questions or comments about this server to
ftpmail-admin at bsdi.com.

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Valid server commands are:

CUST <custid>
    Specify which customer ID to send the patch to.  The patch
    will be sent to the email address registered for the specified
    customer ID.

    If you purchased the system from BSDI's main office, your
    customer number will be something like G1234 or N2345.

    European customers need to prepend an `E' to their system ID
    to make a `Customer number', i.e., if your system ID is
                26ffffe24
    then your customer id is
                E26ffffe24

PATH <path>
    Specify return path.  Use this if you are not sure that
    your mail system generates correct return addresses.

LIMIT <number>
    Maximum number of bytes to be sent per mail transfer.
    Default is 64K bytes.
    The limit applies to subsequent "send" commands.

UUENCODE
BTOA
    Specify encoding to be used. Default is UUENCODE.
    The encoding applies to subsequent "send" commands.

SEND <item> [<item>...]
    Specify files to be sent.
    Use "send index" to request a listing of available files.

RESEND <item> <part> [<part>...]
    Re-sends the indicated <parts> from the specified <item>.
    The encoding and limit must be identical to those used in the
    original request.

HELP
    This message.

END
EXIT
    Terminate command processing. The remainder of
    the input will be ignored.

Case is insignificant in the command verbs, but it IS
significant in the <path> and <item> specifications.

This server will provide files only to registered users with valid
service contracts.  Requests are validated in either of two ways:

	1) The return path (from the message headers or from a PATH
	   command) must match the registered E-mail address of a customer
	   with a valid support contract.

	2) Specifying a customer ID (via the CUST command) will 
	   validate the request against the specified customer's 
	   service contract, and the reply will be sent to the 
	   officially registered E-mail address for that customer ID.

If neither of these restrictions are met, the request will be ignored
and the reason for the error will be returned.

Please report problems with this server to ftpmail-admin at BSDI.COM.

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