HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Reading MAC disk on a sun
Date: 8 Oct 92 20:41:01 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University

Is there a shareware or other software which will give a Sun SS2 with a 3.5 floppy
the capability of reading  a MAC formatted disk.  I need to copy some files from
a 3.5 MAC disk to the SUN disk.
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Joseph P. DeCello III                      e-mail:  jpd@cad.msu.edu
Michigan State University                      ph:  (517) 353-3027 
Specialized Computing Support Services              10am - 5pm EST
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: myersr@geoduck.nosc.mil
Subject: Weird console message
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:08:40 GMT

Hi,

I can't get rid of the following annoying console message no matter 
what I do!  What's going on here?  It repeats about every 7 minutes.

Oct 7 08:14:50 bonehead last message repeated 14 times
Oct 7 08:15:20 bonehead syslog: packet from unknown router, 127.0.0.1

ifconfig -a gives correctly configured lo0 and le0, and vm0 (which has
something to do with communicating over the VME bus and probably
isn't set up correctly).

Any ideas?  Thanks in advance.

Dick Myers

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
Subject: Syslog problem
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 92 14:14:26 GMT

I'm having this little problem setting up a logging program on a few
Sun4 running 4.1.2 and NIS. The problem is this: I'm using messages
to `local0' with `info' priority. When I specify `local0.info' as
the first and only selector in `syslog.conf' I get an error when I
send a hangup to `syslogd'.

The error message is "unknown priority name".

Appending `local0.info' to another selector list works ok, for example
`mail.debug;local0.info' gives no errors on hangup and logs just fine.
What I need, however, is to log `local0.info' separately.

What really bugs me is that I tested the program on my own Sun4 running
4.1.2, but no NIS - thank you, and the setup works just fine. (The `libc.so'
is changed to use DNS. But, that shouldn't be the cause.) The `syslogd' on
the machines gives identical checksums.

Please reply by mail if you can give advice, and I'll post a summary...

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Haakon Styri
Norwegian Telecom Research
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: munish@eola.cs.ucf.edu (Munish Jain)
Subject: Help with shared memory segment
Organization: University of Central Florida, Orlando
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 21:25:11 GMT

hi

I need to find out the size of shared memory segment
in the kernel on Sun IPCs. and if it is less then
I need to make it to atleast 1MB so that I can run
an application. I guess kernel needs to be rebuilt
to achieve this. I looked up in the /usr/sys/$arch
directory but couldn't find any place where I could
change this value.

Since I am not an expert in it, could someone help me
in doing it ? I'd appreciate it.

Thanks in advance,

munish

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written and another for which it wasn't.
From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Tektronix color printer install
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:16:07 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory


	I have a Tektronix color printer to install.

	I know I need to send it a GRF file, and that tcpr
	gives me this.

	Where can I get tcpr, and what else do I have to do?

-- 
	Alan Yasutovich
	"inquiring  (and nosey) minds WANT TO KNOW!!!"
	I can remember when "safe sex" meant having a padded headboard!!
	Tick Tock.....Tick Tock......Tick Tock .....Tick Tock......
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From: tibbs@bifur.math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Subject: Re: Upgrade to 4.1.3 trashes login prompt?
Organization: Blob Shop Programmers
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 07:34:06 GMT

Thanks for the quick responses.  The solution was to note the new cons8
entry in the 4.1.3 default ttytab for the console.

Thanks again!
--
 Jason L. Tibbitts III - tibbs@math.uh.edu - 713/743-3466 - 685PGH
System Administrator:  University of Houston Mathematics Department
 Houston Centers for Advanced Scientific and Molecular Computation
Blob Shop Programmers: Database consulting and graphics programming
From: bill@casemo.UUCP (Bill Jensen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Type 5 keyboard problems on IPX
Date: 16 Oct 92 21:27:09 GMT
Organization: Cray Communications, Annapolis Jct.,MD


  I am having problems with a new IPX system with a type 5 keyboard.
  The keyboard is not mapped properly in Open Look.  This keyboard claims
  to be a type 5 UNIX keyboard, and I can't find a keymap in the system
  for it.  I think it is using the us_5 aka layout_22 file.  I'm running
  SunOS 4.1.3 with Open Look 3.0.  If anyone knows of a quick fix for
  this problem, please let me know.  This system needs to ship elsewhere
  early next week.  Thanks much in advance!


Bill Jensen					Cray Communications, Inc.
Principal Engineer				formerly Dowty Comm. Inc.
(301)-317-7553					9020 Junction Drive
mimsy!casemo!bill				Annapolis Junction, MD 20701
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu (Robert McGraw)
Subject: .signature in Pnews
Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP, Sunspot NM, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 92 14:31:51 GMT

When I send out news using Pnews I only get four lines
of my .signature files. I have looked though the man
pages of nntp, cnews, rn, and Pnews and I can not see
how to increase this setting. 

Four must be a default. How do you increase this number.

Thanks
Robert
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From: suresh@rainbow.njit.edu (suresh)
Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun.comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Problems with the ZOOM FAX/MODEM
Date: 7 Oct 92 17:18:52 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology

I recently acquired a ZOOM FAX/Modem 2400 baud modem, 4800/9600 baud receive/send FAX that is Hayes compatible. I was able to install the modem to my Sparcstation IPC after a lot of trying and effort. I am running SunOS 4.1.1 and OpenWindows 2. I have been able to use the tip command to connect. However, I have several problems with the installation that has forced me to seek the great wisdom of the gurus out in netland. Please help me with the following problems:

1. 	I am only able to use the tip command in a terminal mode window (i.e. the textdemo -ttysw command) and then connect to my remote computer through the following command:

	tip -2400 5963500

This command works fine only in the terminal emulator window. If I use it at the command tool, I get 

	dialing ...... connected

and I am stuck. I cannot connect. Is there something that I am missing?

2.	I need to upload/download files from the remote computer. I know about the ~t, ~p tip commands that I can issue when I am connected under tip. I tried them, they did work but not accurately. The files that I received were corrupted. Incidentally, they were not ASCII files. They were WordPerfect for Unix files. Any suggestions??? Is there a better way??

3.	I would like to use the FAX capabilities of this FAX/Modem. I do not know where to start. What software is available?? Is any public domain software  available that I can use? If so, I need to know the name of the program and also where I can get the code!! I would sure appreciate any info/suggestions.

4.	I also have DOS Windows 1.0 installed that emulates a 286 machine. The literature that I have received from ZOOM includes software for communicating in both the FAX and MODEM modes. The software works for an IBM PC. I am not sure if I can use it since I have no idea on how to configure the serial ports on my machine in DOS Windows so that I can use them for printing/modem/FAX. Has anyone tried this out and had any success. I would appreciate any / detailed info.

5.	I am not a regular reader of this newsgroup. Hence I would request you to send detailed email to the following address:

	suresh@vienna.njit.edu

6.	If there is sufficient interest, I will summarize. BTW, this FAX/Modem cost me $89.99 at Egghead Software for an external version.

Thanks for your time. Please help!!!

B. A. Suresh
Dept. of CIS
New Jersey Institute of Technology.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: Running a Sun without a swap partition or file
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Society, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:32:37 GMT

I got curious the other day when our Sequent Balance's swap disk power
supply decided to shut itself off and the Sequent didn't panic or reboot
but kept on running (the disk was connected via a SMD controller). Of course
all the processes that had been swapped out or had had parts of it paged
out got killed when the operating system tried to run them, but all the other
processes continued to run just fine. One could even start new processes so
noone noticed that the disk wasn't running for quite some time (and everybody
was saying that they were amazed how fast "she" felt. :-)

I wonder what a Sun would do if it's backing swap disk took a hike suddenly,
panic I suppose..

Anyway, this got me to wish that there was an option to run a SunOS system
without any backing swap partion or file at all. Ie, it should only use
the system RAM and never page or swap..

Anyone know if there is some nice adb trick that can be used to patch
SunOS into allowing this? Would be a great disk saver if the machines has
plenty of RAM.

/Peter


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University of Linkoping, Sweden                I'm still bored. Flame me again.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: 4.1.3 lock manager incompatibility?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 02:26:40 GMT

In <pbray.719033895@firebird> pbray@firebird.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Bray) writes:

>SetUp:	SUN SLC & IPX running 4.1.2 with 100075-08 rpc.lockd jumbo patch
>	The IPX is the NFS file server for all applications / user files.

Some versions of the 100075-08 patch are broken, but only for the sun4m
architecture.  My systems performed better with the stock 4.1.2 lock manager
stuff than with the patch.  There is also an 100075-09 patch, but I haven't
tried it yet.
-- 
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From: mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark Benard)
Subject: Heavy traffic on ethernet loopback (lo0)
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:52:53 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-3153]: thoth

I am seeing very heavy traffic (100-500 packets every 5 seconds according to
netstat) on a lo0 loopback ethernet interface.  The system is a 4-processor
670MP running SunOS 4.1.3.  The system is very sluggish, with heavy news
traffic but there are virtually no logins to the system.

I do not have another 600MP system to compare it to, but the other SPARCS
we have show very little loopback traffic.  Incidently 178 appears quite
frequently as the number of lo0 packets when I use netstat at 1 second
intervals.

Any idea what could be causing this?  Is this likely to be contributing to
the sluggishness of the system?
-- 
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Department of Computer Science     INTERNET & BITNET: mb@cs.tulane.edu
Tulane University                  USENET:   rex!mb
New Orleans, LA 70118
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hughm@brwah.inmos.co.uk (Hugh McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100% full?
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 11:22:20 GMT

In article <TIBBS.92Oct7003200@bifur.math.uh.edu>, tibbs@bifur.math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III) writes:
|> After upgrading a Sparc 2 to 4.1.3 (from 4.1.1B) and doing the obligatory
|> fsck, I get from df:
|> 
|> Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
|> /dev/sd0a               7573    5922     894    87%    /
|> /dev/sd0g              85789   77442       0   100%    /usr
|> ...
|> 
|> Now how on earth did this thing learn to subtract?
|>

RTFM df(1):

     Note: used+avail is less than the amount  of  space  in  the
     file  system (kbytes); this is because the system reserves a
     fraction of the space in the file system to allow  its  file
     system   allocation  routines  to  work  well.   The  amount
     reserved is typically about 10%; this may be adjusted  using
     tunefs(8).   When  all the space on a file system except for
     this reserve is in use, only the super-user can allocate new
     files and data blocks to existing files.  When a file system
     is overallocated in this way, df may report  that  the  file
     system is more than 100% utilized.

In your case 77442/85789 ~= 90%, giving the default of 10% reserved.
This behaviour has been the same since at least SunOS 3.5.

|> Any ideas?  (Please let it not be the 'ol "backup and restore"!)

It's normal.  You don't have to do anything.  If you do want to put more
stuff in /usr then root can create stuff up to 110%, otherwise you will have
to repartition the disk.


Hugh McIntyre.
Memory Design, INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
From: warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help needed attaching 10BaseT workstation to thinnet
Keywords: TPE ethernet 10BaseT thinnet
Date: 14 Oct 92 05:08:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: amber.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <1992Oct13.203339.784@rsd0.rsd.dl.nec.com> writes:

-->  We have recently acquired a SS10-31, and are experiencing difficulty
-->  in connecting it to our existing thinnet network.  ...
-->  The SS10 is connected to a Milan MIL-120A coax to 10BaseT converter
-->  using the Sun TPE cable that is supplied with the workstation  ...

  Well, I'm not about to go climbing through the walls and wiring closet, but
it should be easy enough to verify by looking at the cable pinouts for your
10baseT converter.

  We use repeaters like those to go from 10baseT in the walls to thinnet that
the computers use.  If we had 10baseT on the computers, we'd plug them direct-
ly into the wall.  Thus, the computer and the converter should be wired the
same.  Chances are, if it doesn't work right now, it's probably wired exactly
opposite.  (:

  Go out, get some RJ45 connectors and some twisted-pair cable and make your
own from the pinouts.

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behind one at just the point when one thought one had disposed of one's enemies.
From: asah@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Adam Sah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Duplicating 4.1.1 boot tape for 3/80? how?
Date: 8 Oct 92 10:33:15
Organization: Inverse proportionality to importance.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: cory.berkeley.edu


I am the proud owner of a new (used) Sun 3/80 and wish to duplicate the
  boot tape for safety reasons (ie. sun is famous for writing 0's to tape
  scsi devices on shutdown if left in the drive... ouch).

I am told that you cannot 'dd' it because of variable block sizes, but that
  the gurus of the net universe have a way around this.

Any advice is appreciated!

Hardware: 3/80, 150MB SCSI Tape (archive viper 2150S)

--
Thanks again,
-A.Sah'92

 ...Adam Sah...asah@cs.Berkeley.EDU...stuck in hell, I mean graduate school...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: 3270 Terminal Emulation
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 17:22:13 GMT

Has anyone been able telnet and perform 
a 3270 terminal emulation?
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From: govind@infonode.ingr.com (Govind Vadvadgi)
Subject:  Setting Port Parameters
Keywords:  ttya, tty00
Reply-To: govind@infonode.ingr.com
Organization: Intergraph
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:02:01 GMT

 I could not find this in the manual: 
   Is there a way to set port parameters like stopbits, parity
   databits, xon/xoff, and other stuff  on the auxiliary ports
   ( ttya and ttyb ) on a SUN system. I am using SunOS 4.1.3 3 
   
   I am looking for something similar to System V "utconfig" command.

Any pointers appreciated.



Thanks.
-govind.
govind@infonode.ingr.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: Reading MAC disk on a sun
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1992 04:09:28 GMT

On 8 Oct 92 20:41:01 GMT, jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello) said:

> Is there a shareware or other software which will give a Sun SS2 with a 3.5 floppy
> the capability of reading  a MAC formatted disk.  I need to copy some files from
> a 3.5 MAC disk to the SUN disk.
> ---

There is a program called SunTar which is available from
sumex-aim.stanford.edu for the Macintosh, which allows the Mac to read and
write Unix (not just Sun) tar formatted disks.  I've used it a few times and
never have had a problem.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
Subject: OW3.0 mailtool + OS 4.1.1 bombs
Reply-To: cecil@physics.unc.edu
Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:49:58 GMT

w/ msg: ld.so: map heap error (9) for /dev/zero
Any ideas how I can fix this?  Thanks.
---
Gerald Cecil cecil@wrath.physics.unc.edu  919-962-7169 
Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A Zook 283-4206)
Subject: X11R4 under SunOS 4.1.3
Organization: MDSSC
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 15:45:33 GMT

I am attempting to build X11R4 under SunOS 4.1.3.  Due to user
constraints I can not go to X11R5 yet.
The build completes with a lot of "ld: Undefined symbol" messages
in the clients (see examples below).  But, the executables created seem to work.

I get a clean build (no errors) if I include "-Bstatic" as a compiler
option.  Unfortunatly this generates executables that are 3 or 4
times larger than if the "-Bstatic" option is not used.

Is it safe to use the X11R4 built without the "-Bstatic" option?
What kind, if any, problems might I run into?


Example error messages follow:
cc -o xterm main.o input.o charproc.o cursor.o util.o tabs.o  screen.o scrollbar
.o button.o Tekproc.o misc.o  VTPrsTbl.o TekPrsTbl.o data.o menu.o -O  -L../../.
/lib/Xaw -lXaw -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu -L../.././lib/Xt -lXt ../.././extensions/
lib/libXext.a -L../.././lib/X -lX11   -ltermcap
ld: Undefined symbol
   _sin
   _cos
   _pow
   _floor
   _get_wmShellWidgetClass
   _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
*** Error code 2
make: Warning: Target `all' not remade because of errors
Current working directory /tmp_mnt/u39/X/R4/src/mit/clients/xterm

cc -o xsetroot xsetroot.o -O  -L../.././lib/Xmu -lXmu ../.././extensions/lib/lib
Xext.a -L../.././lib/X -lX11
ld: Undefined symbol
   _XtRealloc
   _XtMalloc
   _pow
   _floor
   _get_wmShellWidgetClass
   _get_applicationShellWidgetClass
   _XtIsSubclass
   _XtFree
   _XtName
   _XtWidgetToApplicationContext
   _XtAppWarningMsg
   _XtWarning
   _XtStringConversionWarning
   _XtErrorMsg
   _XtConvert
   _XtWarningMsg
   _XtDisplayStringConversionWarning
*** Error code 2
make: Warning: Target `all' not remade because of errors
Current working directory /tmp_mnt/u39/X/R4/src/mit/clients/xsetroot

-- 
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(713) 283-4206
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Size of swap file
Date: 8 Oct 1992 20:08:33 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Oct8.164737.499@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
>In article <ROUILJ.92Oct7162852@ra.cs.umb.edu> rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard) writes:
>>I wouldn't. I would allocate just as much as was needed for memory,
>>then use mkfile and swapon to add more if necessary. 
>
>This is fine so long as you bear in mind that swapping through files is much
>less efficient than swapping to a raw partition. For starters, you have to go
>through the filesystem structures to get to it. Even worse, if the file is 
>reasonably large (which it probably will be) or the filesystem has been in
>use for a while, it will certainly be fragmented, reducing performance further.

There's no reason why swapping to a file should be significantly less
efficient than swapping to a partition.  You shouldn't have to go through
any filesystem structures; the swapon command should extract all the disk
page locations and put them into the appropriate kernel data structures.

Regarding fragmentation, I'm not sure which kind you're referring to.  Do
you mean that the file will be spread across the partition rather than
being contiguous, or do you mean that it will have lots of small blocks
instead of a smaller number of big blocks?  The former is certainly true,
but shouldn't have much of a performance impact; there's already plenty of
head motion due to the system going back and forth between swap and fs
partitions for normal processing, and there's motion optimization code that
smooths these things out.  The latter isn't likely unless your file system
is severely fragmented, in which case you probably have other performance
problems and should rebuild it.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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