HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kevinc@ups.com (Kevin C. Castner)
Subject: Auditing Modem Usage
Keywords: modem external security
Organization: UPS Research & Development
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:59:06 GMT

I'm running a network of Sun Sparc's with 3 of the machines having external
modems attached to their tty ports.
My managers have decided that it would be a good idea to see who is calling
where, when.

Up till now, my users have been using standard system tools or common 
utilities such as cu, tip, kermit.  I set up a little shell script that
asked the user where they were dialing, when, and time.  Of course, the
phone bill doesn't match the voluntary log, so I am force to use a more
drastic (or draconian) method.  (So much for my faith in my user community).

The problem is that I don't want to take away the tools that the users
currently using.  My managers are not interested in restricting access,
but would like the ability to restrict access to the modems by user, or
prevent any user from dialing certain numbers at a future time (if the 
situation warrants).

Buying a TERM type product, would give me these abilities, but would force
my users to learn and adopt a new product.  Also given that this is an
R&D center, alot of my users could easily write a new cu or tip, get to the
tty and force the dial from the intelligent (hayes) modem.  Restricting
permissions on the tty and writing a wrapper program only works for cu
and tip, but my kermit users can still get to the intelligence of the 
modem and give the command there.  I know if they did that, I would still
know who did it b/c I would have the log and the telephone bills, but my
managers are awfully upset about the lack of support for my little
program and want something ironclad.

The idea I came up with was to replace the drivers with one that would 
also recognize the Hayes dial and disconnect strings, and log those
events.  I've never written a device driver, so I don't know if this
is possible, or what technical problem I could/would run into.o

Now I'm sure I'm not the first to run into this problem so I'd like to
hear some solutions that people have used.  All ideas are welcome.
If I don't get something my users are going to lose their tools.  I don't
want to see that happen.  

I thank you for all your help.  If those who respond would do so by
E-Mail, I will post a summary in a week or two.


						Thanks
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    ======================================================================

      Kevin C. Castner                           kevinc@ups.com
      Unix Administrator                         United Parcel Service
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tibbs@math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Subject: mountd - could not register TCP MOUNTPROG
Organization: Blob Shop Programmers
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 06:54:09 GMT

I'm trying to set up a workstation to export some of its filesystems and
all seems to work fine until another machine actually goes to mount the
filesystems.  Then errors like that in the subject line spew forth from the
console of the server machine until the OS detects the looping and cuts it
off.  The funny thing is that it worked fine once, then never again.

The machine doing the mounting is running amd 5.2, if it matters.

I'd appreciate any assistance.
--
 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: mark@coombs.anu.edu.au (Mark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Standalone sun resolv?
Date: 14 Nov 92 04:46:23 GMT
Organization: Australian National University
NNTP-Posting-Host: 150.203.76.2
Organisation: Wassat?!

Check out the Sun.FAQ. It has how to get the patches to implement
DNS services without having to run NIS. 

I last saw it in comp.unix.admin I think, it should be in the news.answers
group as well.

Mark
From: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Myka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: number of windows
Date: 6 Nov 1992 12:43:25 GMT
Organization: Uni Tuebingen, Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut
Distribution: world
Reply-To: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: sunpower.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Hi,

I have the following problem with an application written in SunView(!)
which runs on SUN SPARCstations (2 and 10):
After several windows (~8) are opened, the creation of the next window
is denied with the following message:

>> Couldn't open window placeholders: Too many open files
>> /dev/win55 would not open (be created)(errno = 24)
>> no more windows available
>> WIN ioctl number 1c: Too many open files
>> window: Window creation failed to get new fd

and the application crashes. Therefore I have the following questions:

- Is there a system variable for the possible number of open files/windows? If yes,
can this number be increased without getting into trouble?
- Can this error be handled internally (by the application)? If yes, how?

Thank you very much for any answers to these questions!

Andreas

email: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
From: rpt@wdl1.wdl.loral.com (Richard P Toren)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: ? Solaris 2.0 'compat mode' limitations ?
Date: 8 Nov 92 14:43:36 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Loral Western Development Labs

This is a question for those of you adventurous souls that are
already trying out Solaris 2.0.

We have been directed to build a system with the following requirements:
  Sun Sparc 2,  SYS5V4 (Solaris 2.0), Motif 1.2,...
to be completed by next fall.

I have many concerns about this approach, but right now I am thinking
about Solaris 2.0.  Management has read the words 'compatability mode'.

What is this exactly? What are its drawbacks? What about performance? 
Is this a Sun equiv. of the DOS box under Windows (BSD under SYSV)? 

I would be very interested in any information that would either help
me refute this requirement; or calm my fears that we are taking a 
great technical risk with this approach.


Rip Toren
rpt@han3206.ss.loral.com
From: seltzer@sda.com (Wayne Seltzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: pcfs (PC-DOS filesystem) performance
Date: 7 Nov 92 00:40:43 GMT

Pardon me if this has been discussed before...
Is there any way to improve the performance of Sun's pcfs?
Reading and writing DOS floppies using pcfs is amazingly slow.

I thought I remember hearing about some commercial products that
do the same thing, but with better performance.
I don't want to emulate DOS; just read/write DOS floppies.
--
Wayne Seltzer                                  seltzer@sda.com
Software Design & Analysis, Inc.               +1 (303) 444-9100
1113 Spruce St, Suite 500, Boulder, CO 80302
From: nanda@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: help!! diskless node installation
Date: 9 Nov 92 14:11:20 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Hi!!! 

We just purchased a couple of Sun IPXs and ELCs. I am having problems trying
to boot the ELCs from the IPXs. Apparently the add_client doesnt seem to work.
It creats the /export/swap/diskless_client but does not copy file to 
/export/root/diskless-client. 

I edited the bootparams, exports and ether files in the /etc directory as
stated in the sys admin manual. I also copied the /usr, /sbin and /etc files
to the /export/root/diskless_client and I edited the fstab in this directory as 
stated in the manual. With all this, when I type boot net on the ELC, it trys
to boot and it accesses the root correctly but dumps when trying to access the 
swap. 

Can someone pls help me with this????
I also wanted to know if one could subscribe to this group, if yes then how?

pls reply to the email below
NANDA@KUHUB.CC.UKANS.EDU

thanks in advance

-Sushmeeta Nanda
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:8231 comp.unix.admin:6173
From: tournois@irisa.fr ( Michel.Tournois)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: How to automate installation and configuration of a system ?
Date: 13 Nov 92 09:32:16 GMT
Organization: Irisa, Rennes(FR)



  Hello,

  We have about two hundred Sun worskstations and 
  I am looking for software tools that :

    - make a change to all the systems at a site (other
  than the command rdist);

    - automatically  install and configure across the network 
  an Unix system on a workstation (eliminating the need to 
  be present during this operation).

 Any info, comments and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

 I'll summarize all the answers.

 Thank you much in advance,

-- 
Michel Tournois 			     E-mail: tournois@irisa.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: fit106@mis.csiro.au (Kent Fitch (Project Computing))
Subject: SUNLINK SNA3270 at 48K - problems?
Summary: Problems running SUNLINK SNA3270 on a 48K link
Keywords: SUNLINK SNA 3270 serial port speed problems
Organization: CSIRO DIT (Melb.)
Date: 11 Nov 92 00:29:13 GMT


We have been successfully running SUNLINK SNA3270 over a 9.6Kbps line
between our SUN 670 motherboard serial port and our SNA mainframe.  Due
to popularity of the link, we upgraded it to 48Kbps just over a week ago.
Since then, we have lost the link 7-8 times - we are getting many HDLC
ABORT sequences during heavy load and sometimes the frame sequences are
repeatedly sent so many times incorrectly from the SUN end that the mainframe
resets the link (with a SNRM) - after this, we have to bounce the SUNLINK
SNA3270 software to get the link to restart. We have reported the problem
to SUN 2 days ago, and are awaiting a response.  Meanwhile, I have noticed 
several postings on these groups regarding problems with high speed modems,
and we are thinking that our problem is just another one of the same kind,
reportedly solved by a fix costing $950/cpu from Sun Consulting?  Are we
correct in this?  Has anyone successfully ran their SNA3270 link reliably
at 48K under heavy load WITH or WITHOUT this patch?

It seems to us that the problems occur only under heavy link load (thru the
serial port) and maybe also when the machine is heavily loaded (esp with
other I/O) - is this likely?  Can some SUN guru suggest an explanation for
this - eg, can we make it better or worse by raising or lowering the priority
of the SUNLINK software?

Thank you in advance.

Kent Fitch
ITSB    CSIRO   Canberra  Australia

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cnwietho@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Carsten Wiethoff)
Subject: Re: DAT's on 4.1.2
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 09:45:48 GMT

From article <2592@bigfoot.first.gmd.de>, by ats@bigfoot.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz):
> You must change the file /sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c and add into
> struct st_drivetype a new entry :
> /* HP DAT 35480A */
> {
> 	"HP35480A", 2, "HP",
> 	ST_TYPE_EXABYTE, 1024,
> 	(ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR),
> 	5000, 5000,
> 	{ 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
> 	{ 0, 0, 0, 0 }
> }
> 
You also should set ST_KNOWS_EOD, so that you can do "mt eom" quickly.
I don't know if you need ST_FSF and ST_FSR as well.

Carsten Wiethoff (pwi@psun3.hmi.de)
From: fontana@disuns2.epfl.ch (Pierre Fontana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SCSI: Initiator / Target alternatively
Date: 6 Nov 92 11:14:58 GMT
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

According to the SCSI protocol, devices are usually Initiator or Target,
can be both alternatively if needed. What I need to know is :

     Does the implementation of the SCSI drivers on the SUNs (no
     specific machine) allow the processor to be selected as a
     Target (processor device) ?

Thank's for mailing me your answers, I'll post a summary of them.

Pierre Fontana

E-MAIL: fontana@disuns2.epfl.ch  or  fontana@eldi.epfl.ch
From: ucacmsu@ucl.ac.uk (Mr Stephen R Usher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: LaserJet printer input filter for Postscript.
Date: 10 Nov 92 15:58:27 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London

I've also had a number of requests for a printcap entry for an HP LaserJet,
well here's the one we use with a Brother HP compatable we use:-

brother:\
        :lp=/dev/ttya:br#19200:ms=-parity,-opost,ixon:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/brother:if=/var/spool/brother/ljetfilt:sh:

Steve

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tim@hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White)
Subject: Re: Plotter problems
Organization: USC  Department of Computer Science
Date: 11 Nov 92 13:55:37 GMT

minieri@enterprise.gatech.edu (Joe Minieri) writes:

>We've got two different plotters here - an HP and a Versatec
>(running in HP "mode") - we have SS2's running 4.1.1 here.
>Recently we have been experiencing some weird problems - it
>seems like plot files that are bigger then about 1020000 bytes
>long plot for a while and then just quit - and then next plot starts
>right over that one.  This happens on both plotters.  We had an
>HP service rep out here and he said that the problem was "suns
>problem".  I can't see why this is suns problem since we don't
>have this problem with big files on either of the postscript
>printers we have.  Anyone know about anything like this?

   Try adding mx#0 to the /etc/printcap definition for the plotter. Sets
  plot/print files size to be unlimited.  I assume you are driving this 
  with lpd.

   See the printcap manpage for details.
--
==============================================================================
Tim White				 University of South Carolina
tim@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu	   Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory
(803)-777-7840 		  		     Columbia, S.C. 29208
From: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM (Brent)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
Date: 9 Nov 1992 18:27:26 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Distribution: world
Reply-To: brent@terra.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: terra

In article 92Nov6132019@pit-manager.mit.edu, jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
>  :
># mount -t lo /ub/local-sun4 /mnt
>mount_lo:  mount /ub/local-sun4 on /mnt:  No such device
>mount: giving up on:
>   /mnt
># 

You haven't got lofs configured into your kernel.  
Boot a kernel with it configured in, and it should work fine.

---

Made in New Zealand -->  Brent Callaghan  @ SunSoft
			 Email: brent@Eng.Sun.COM
			 phone: (415) 336 1051

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: shj@ultra.com (Steve Jay {Ultra Unix SW Mgr})
Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 00:09:38 GMT

cracraft@rice-chex.ai.mit.edu (Stuart Cracraft) writes:


>After a one-month port of a simulator to the Solaris 2.0 environment,
>we are seriously thinking of avoiding Solaris altogether. When you
>carefully look at what can be achieved in-house when vendors don't
>change out platforms from under the customer (e.g. more real work)
>vs. when they do (e.g. catch-up make-work), it is very easy to 
>conclude that stepping into the Solaris 2.0 platform could waste
>up to a man-year of one staff member's time doing porting, conversions,
>learning System V unix, and so forth.

This is, of course, exactly the decision that every current Sun customer
has to make.  Sun has decided to force all of it's customers to Solaris 2
if they want to keep up with their new hardware and software.  Vendors
are free to do such things.  I'm sure Sun is aware that some percentage
of their current customers won't do it, and they will loose those
customers for future business.  It's Sun's judgement that they will
make more money with Solaris 2 than if they continue with their current
OS.  Time and the market will tell if they are right.

However, you should realize that just staying with your current Sun
hardware and software will almost certainly not be a viable long term
strategy.  It won't be very many years before all your current stuff
looks mighty old, slow, and unmaintainable.  Consider what you'd be
running now if all your hardware/software were purchased from Sun at
least 3 or 4 years ago.

Most installations have to stay reasonably current in hardware and
software technology.  For current Sun customers, the choice is between
going with Sun's strategy (Solaris 2), or moving to another vendor who
provides a product which better suits the site's needs.  Sun is betting
that the pain of moving to Solaris 2 from SunOS 4 is much less than
moving to another vendor.  If they're wrong, in a few years Sun will
be where DEC is now...in trouble.

Steve Jay
shj@ultra.com  ...ames!ultra!shj
Ultra Network Technologies / 101 Dagget Drive / San Jose, CA 95134 / USA
(408) 922-0100 x130	"Home of the 1 Gigabit/Second network"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Format parameter for Seagate ST41200NV
From: dandrea@traviata.cineca.it (Vincenzo D'Andrea)
Date: 11 Nov 92 19:41:44 +0100
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Distribution: world
Organization: U Parma (Italy)

Does anyone has a Seagate ST41200NV attached to a Sun ?
If so, could you please mail me the entry you use in the format.dat file?

Thank you,
Vincenzo.

-- 
  Vincenzo D'Andrea
  Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione     tel. +39 (521) 905707
  Universita` degli Studi di Parma                 fax  +39 (521) 905723
  43100 Parma -Italy                     email dandrea@aida.eng.unipr.it
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kwthomas@nsslsun.nssl.uoknor.edu (Kevin W. Thomas)
Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
Organization: National Severe Storms Laboratory
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:13:52 GMT

In article <15474@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>Sun is going after the MIS market and probably couldn't care
>>less what several thousand engineers, scientists and assorted techies
>>think.
>
>I also suspect fewer "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" than
>some folks think actually care that much about BSD vs. SV; I suspect

Wrong.  The scientists here are very familiar with a BSD system here.  I've
been administrating BSD system (2.9BSD and SunOS) for 8 years.

>many "engineers, scientists, and assorted techies" outside the UNIX
>community would be just as happy running, say, Windows NT, as long as
>the particular technical applications they wanted to run were available
>under NT on the platform in question.

Windows NT, you got to be kidding.  I want a real computer with real computing
power so I can run my doppler algorithms on it.

>(Yes, I'm sure you can dig up *individual* exceptions.  Please don't
>bother doing so, unless you can dig up *enough* individual exceptions to
>show that the bulk of the technical community is truly in love with a
>more BSDish UNIX, or even with UNIX in general.)

Although I do not represent the options of the people at the National Severe
Storms Laboratory, as system manager/adminstrator, I have a general idea
what they like and dislike.

	Kevin W. Thomas
	National Severe Storms Laboratory
	Norman, Oklahoma
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST))
Subject: sunos 3.5 miniroot problem
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:08:30 GMT

	Got a system at work that is still running sunos 3.5 and
 we ahve to reload it, problem is we can't remember how to get the
machine to boot off the mini-root. Anyone remmeber the magic 
incantation?
Thanks!
Later,
	Mike
	grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
	or mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov
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	--Personal theroy
From: jtillema@hindmost.lpl.arizona.edu (John Tillema)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Does anyone know what this means?
Date: 10 Nov 92 22:01:30 GMT
Organization: Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, Tucson AZ.

Periodically when I am reading in tapes from a 9 track 
drive to our external hard drive, the system crashes with
the following message:


panic: bad rmfree
zs3: silo overflow
syncing file systems... panic: zero
00278 low-memory static kernel pages
00203 additional static and sysmap kernel pages
00000 dynamic kernel data pages
00101 additional user structure pages
00000 segmap kernel pages
00000 segvn kernel pages
00100 current user process pages
00077 user stack pages
00759 total pages (759 chunks)

dumping to vp fd819764, offset 148188
sm0:  sd6, unit online
mb_mapfree: MR == 0!!!
759 total pages, dump succeeded
rebooting...


(though this is the first time it had the z3:silo overflow
 message).

The system is a Sun 4/330 running OW 3.0 (happened under 2.0 as well),
SunOS 4.1.2, 3 items on the SCSI bus (1 exabyte, 1 hard drive, 1 CDROM),
a Xylogics model 472 tape drive (9track), and an Aviv vme-multibus
adaptor (model bc 500).

Anyone have any clues?  I think it is tied in with the tape drive
as it only occurs when I am reading in tapes.  It can occur when I am
only reading tapes or when lots of stuff is going on in the background.

Thanks
John
jtillema@panda.lpl.arizona.edu
jtillema@lpl.arizona.edu
From: anthis@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Mike Anthis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
Date: 13 Nov 92 16:37:36 GMT
Organization: Boeing

In article <1992Nov12.204638.2538@alw.nih.gov> jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams) writes:
>
>If you want to hold on to 4.1.x, I'd strongly advise you to get a source
>license and be prepared to provide your own support.  Sun's newest HW
>offerings do not even run 4.1.x at all.  Genuine support for 4.1.x is
>likely to go away Real Soon Now.  Remember how fast support for the 
>Sun 3 went away.

And lets certainly not forget the 386i ;-}   

-- 
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90% of good taste is found in 10% of the population.
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From: dhl@mrdog.msl.com (Donald H. Locker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Flow Control between the 'Supra' Modem and UUCP on SunOS 4.4.1
Date: 6 Nov 92 13:34:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: mrdog.1992Nov6.133409.4829
Organization: Chelsea MSL, Inc., Chelsea, MI

In article <Bx5JEE.Ly6@intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
[...]
>
>Assuming you set the CRTSCTS bit properly, there is still a problem
>with SunOS RTS/CTS handling.  The Sun does not pace the modem with
>RTS.  It just leaves RTS high all the time.  This causes incoming UUCP
>to overflow the SLC's silo buffer if the transmission is too fast.
>The result is retransmissions, which slow the effective transfer rate
>but do not otherwise interfere with the operation of UUCP.

Sorry, Ed, but RTS has nothing to do with the DTE (Sun) pacing the DCE
(Modem).  RS232C was developed at a time when DTEs could easily
overrun the communications channels; the RTS/CTS signaling was
provided to allow the DCE to tell the DTE to hold off.  The DTE merely
asserts RTS whenever it WANTS to SEND (not when it is ready to
receive).  The only signal that RS232C provides for such a purpose is
the DTR, which is intended to be a quasi-static (once asserted, the
DTE is ready, and will only go non-ready in case of disaster).

Times have changed, but RS232 hasn't.  That is appropriate for a
standard.  But we need to use a more up-to-date standard these days.

[...]
>Regards, Ed
>-- 
>Ed McGuire                   1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
>Systems Administrator/       Dallas, Texas 75234
> Member of Technical Staff   214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
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