HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Can the priority of a running process be changed?
Date: 7 Nov 1992 02:32:10 -0600
Organization: Dept. of Mathematics, Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: hilbert.math.ksu.edu

pkerr@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Paul Kerr) writes:

>rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable) writes:
>>Is there any way to change the priority of a process AFTER it has
>>started running?  We often have naive users who run compute intensive
>>tasks either in foreground or simply backgrounded with '&', and would
>>like to change the priority without forcing the user to restart his
>>calculation using 'nice'.


>From the man page for renice(8)
>NAME
>     renice - alter nice value of running processes

Assuming, of course, that his OS has renice(8).  I wrote a renice
command for SysV 2.1.2 (which doesn't have kernel support for altering
the nice value of a running process).  It simply opens /dev/kmem and
patches the appropriate proc table entry.

-- 
    Tim Ramsey, 913.532.6750
    Department of Mathematics
    Kansas State University
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: swann@divsun.unige.ch (SWANN Philip)
Subject: News on BULL
Organization: University of Geneva, Switzerland
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 14:30:41 GMT

I need to set up computer conferencing and e-mail facilities on
a Bull DPX 2/300 Unix system (system V 3/2 compatible). This would
be a single server for a maximum of a few hundred users who would
access the machine via PCs and Macs. What I think I'm looking for
is a version of News and an e-mail system to install on the Bull
together with friendly front-ends for the PCs and Macs.

Any pointers gratefully received. Please e-mail me.

Thanks,

Philip Swann
Facutly of Psychology and Education
University of Geneva
Switzerland 


Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon)
Subject: HELP! needed identifying ethernet board needed
Organization: Open Age, Inc.
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 14:42:52 GMT



Hi All,

A customer of mine has an AT&T 6386 WGS UNIX Box.  He wants to add TCP/IP to
the box, so he purchased the WIN TCP/IP from AT&T.  This package is now
installed, but the customers SMC ethernet board does not seem to be the one
required by the software.  

The documentation references an AT&T StarLan NI board, and a StarLan NP600A
board.  These look like Racal-Datacomm boards that were OEMed by AT&T.  I would
like to get some verification on which ethernet boards my customer needs to
purchase.  I will try talking to AT&T and R-D today, but AT&T has a great game
of 800-it's-not-my-department phone tag.  I spend over an hour on hold
yesterday with AT&T as employee after employee gave me 800 number after 800
number.  No one was able to answer my question.  When I finally got to a
support line where they thought they could help I was told I would be called
back.  No time was given for the call back, and it did not come.

Please help me identify the board I need to buy.

-- 
The Golden Gryphon 				gryphon@openage.COM
Solve a man's problem and he has 1 less.        No incumbents in 92.
"Mad Scientists seeks mindless brawny assistants, good pay, quite location."
Openage - The Premier SCO UNIX integrator in the Washington D.C. area
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov (J. Porter Clark)
Subject: A tiny enhancement to ypserv
Organization: NASA/MSFC
Date: 13 Nov 92 02:32:16 GMT

I was running "top" in a window one day and was surprised at how much I
was seeing a running ypserv process.  Much debugging with etherfind
later, I found out that someone on my very busy network was
broadcasting "call portmapper" RPC packets, searching in vain for a NIS
server with some name I never heard of.  Trouble was, this broadcast
was occurring about once per second.

I finally got around to reading the ypserv man page and discovered that
ypserv would log error messages to /var/yp/ypserv.log if it existed.  I
tried that, but the data in ypserv.log is very limited:

Wed Nov 11 05:38:31: Domain cars not supported (broadcast)

I can't think of a good way to find out the IP address or hostname of
the host issuing the broadcast.  I can run etherfind, but I actually
have to grub through the raw packet to find the domain name before I
can nail it down unambiguously.

The machine issuing this once-per-second broadcast has been taken care
of (heh-heh-heh 8-), but now that I know to look for this situation, I
see that a handful of hosts are causing me to log several hundred of
these broadcasts a day.  I don't mind logging them, but it seems to me
that there are a number of folks out there who need help, if only I
knew who they were.

Would it be too much to ask for ypserv to log the IP address, at the
very least, of the host issuing the broadcast?  How about it folks?
Does Solaris 2.X do this?  If not, is this a good idea?

Is there any way to make ypserv not listen for broadcasts?  Or would
this break certain applications?

I'm running SunOS 4.1.2 with the securenets patch, among others.
-- 
J. Porter Clark    jpc@avdms8.msfc.nasa.gov or jpc@gaia.msfc.nasa.gov
NASA/MSFC Flight Data Systems Branch

"Why do I have to keep reading these technical manuals?"
				 --Roger Waters
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: ian@unipalm.co.uk (Ian Phillipps)
Subject: Re: Can I backup an OS/2 TCP/IP box to tape on HP-UX box?
Keywords: backup OS/2 HPUX
Organization: Unipalm Ltd., 216 Cambridge Science Park, Cambridge CB4 4WA, UK
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:40:14 GMT

nholford@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Nick Holford) writes:

>Can someone tell me if it is possible to backup an OS/2 box 
>(with TCP/IP) to an HP-UX box which has a DAT?
>I am a beginner at this sysadmin stuff so please forgive me if this
>is a question with a barn door answer!

You don't say which TCP stack you're using on the OS/2. The only one I
know details of is FTP's, which does have a "tar" command.

This works like Gnu tar, and needs the /etc/rmt program on your host
machine. If this doesn't exist on the HP, you can get it as part of the
Gnu tar package, or separately from the Berkeley sources.

As with any network backup system, you'd need to re-load the OS +
network software locally in case of a catastrophe.

Ian
-- 
Ian Phillipps, Unipalm Ltd, 216 Science Park,		Phone +44 223 420002
Milton Road, Cambridge, CB4 4WA, England.		Phax  +44 223 426868
	print unpack( u,q,9:G5S="!A;F]T:&5R('!E<FP@:&%C:V5R"@``,.'');
From: dburke@icarus.lis.pitt.edu (Doug Burke)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Termcap needed:  VGA screen on a 386SX notebook
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:18:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Pittsburgh
Originator: dburke@icarus.lis.pitt.edu

Hi.  I was wondering if any one had a termcap entry for a VGA screen.  I'm
using one that came w/ Mt. Xinu called 'at386' but I would think that a
VGA screen would have more capability.  Here is the entry:

at|AT386|at386|at/386 console:\
	:am:bs:co#80:li#25:kn#3:\
	:AL=\E[%dL:DL=\E[%dM:DO=\E[%dB:IC=\E[%d@:LE=\E[%dD:\
	:RI=\E[%dC:UP=\E[%dA::DC=\E[%dP:SF=\E[%dS:SR=\E[%dT:\
	:al=\E[L:cd=\E[J:ce=\E[K:ch=\E[%i%dG:\
	:cl=\E[H\E[J:cm=\E[%i%d;%dH:dc=\E[P:dl=\E[M:\
	:ho=\E[H:ic=\E[@:kb=\b:kd=\E[B:\
	:kh=\E[H:kl=\E[D:kr=\E[C:ku=\E[A:nd=\E[C:\
	:se=\E[m:sf=\E[S:so=\E[7m:sr=\E[T:ue=\E[m:up=\E[A:us=\E[4m:\
	:ko=nd,up,ho:\
    	:vb=:


Please email me to save net-bandwidth and I will summarize if there is
sufficient interest.  Thanks in advance.


Cheers,

    Doug Burke	    	dburke@lis.pitt.edu
From: 445362@llnl.gov (Grant Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Setting up an email-based responder
Keywords: email echo
Date: 11 Nov 92 18:28:36 GMT
Reply-To: 445362@llnl.gov
Distribution: usa
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Lab

I would like to set up a service to distribute info on demand via email.  I've seen references to the type of functionality I'm after, but haven't got info on how to set it up.  I'd like users to be able to send a message to info@node with the topic in the body.  The responder would then grab the doc file, run a script to generate the info or whatever else was needed and reply via email.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

---
Grant Johnson                                 Internet: grantj@llnl.gov
Lawrence Livermore National Lab	           PacBell Net: (510) 423-0406

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.ultrix
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: How to Detect Ethernet Down ??
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 22:23:10 GMT

In article <1992Nov12.192655.23193@serval.net.wsu.edu> yeidel@tomar.accs.wsu.edu (Joshua Yeidel) writes:

>Is there any way to detect after the fact the time that a net
>connection was broken?

If you're running SMTP or NNTP, check the logfiles and see when it last
got something through, and when it first failed. Check with your primary
connection sites (particularly with NNTP; incoming is much higher rate
than outgoing) and see if they can pin it down better.


-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chairman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Data sheet: HSN-3000 Nuclear Event Detector. The [NED] senses the gamma
radiation pulse [from a] nuclear weapon." As if we wouldn't notice...
From: markk@richs86.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Krempl)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: (rsh somehost reboot) never exits
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:16:39 GMT
Reply-To: markk@richs86.cpg.trs.reuter.com (Mark Krempl)
Organization: Reuters LTD, Oak Brook, IL

This command works for Sun Workstations:

	rsh somehost "nohup reboot > /dev/console &"

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Mark N. Krempl
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From: chris@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
Date: 10 Nov 92 10:02 CST
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/group BUG ultrix4.2A
Message-ID: <27200001@tisdec.tis.tandy.com>
Nf-ID: #R:alsvid.une.edu.au:9:tisdec.tis.tandy.com:27200001:000:2085
Nf-From: tisdec.tis.tandy.com!chris    Nov 10 10:02:00 1992


/* Written  5:47 pm  Nov  9, 1992 by mark@alsvid.UUCP in comp.unix.admin */
/* ---------- "/etc/group BUG ultrix4.2A" ---------- */

It seems that ultrix 4.2 has a nice little bug where the length of group entries
is fixed at 1024 bytes. Any one entered against a group past this
magic point does not belong to the group when they login.

.
.
.

-- 
Mark Garrett	Internet:  mark@arvak.une.edu.au	Phone: 	+61 66 20 3859
   University of New England, Northern Rivers, Lismore NSW Australia.
/* End of text from comp.unix.admin */

There is a limit to the number and length of a group entry, and is documented
somewhere in the amdinistration notes along with a work-around (Possibly in
the BSD 4.2/3 manuals).

There is a documented enhancement that will allow you to extend this
capability.  Basicly you have to manually add any additional users to this
group in the future.

First thing you need to do is duplicate the first 3 fields of the group
entry on the following line so that you have two entries for that group.
Second, at the point that people start to not belong to that group( or
around 1000 characters) you need to insert a '\' followed immediatly by EOL.
Move the remaining user ID's to the second line. Any NEW users will be added
to the second entry for this group.

You should end up with something like:

group0:*:50:user1,user11,.....
group1:*:51:user1,user2,........,user99,\
group1:*:51:user100,user101,.....
group2:*:52:user1,user11,.....


The other alternative is to make the group, with all these users, their
primary group, and just not list them on that group. (adduser(8) does this)

Hope this helps.  We currently use this on one of our systems running ULTRIX
4.2A.  Just wish I could find the reference that I remember reading at one
time.

==========================================================================
Chris Riney                     Domain: chris@tisdec.tis.tandy.com
Tandy Information Services        UUCP: ...!trsvax!tisdec!chris
Tandy Technology Sqr, Suite 200
Fort Worth, TX 76102             Phone: 817/878-0308; 8:00am-5:00pm CST,Mo-Fr

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: gordon@ug.cs.dal.ca (Scott King)
Subject: Booting over the network from CDROM
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 17:44:22 GMT

Does anyone know if there is a way to boot a machine from a remote CDROM
drive (using the network).  The machine I want to boot is a Sparc1+ and
the machine with the CD is a Sparc2.

- Scott

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: sverre@lars.nrel.gov (Sverre Froyen)
Subject: Re: gated and SLIP
Organization: National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 14:56:12 GMT

<G72BB@CUNYVM.BITNET> writes:

>Hello:

>     I have a 486 Machine connected to a SUN SPARCServer via a 9.6
>SLIP Connection.  The link is permanent, at least for a few months.

>     Has anyone successfully integrated their SLIP or PPP link to the
>Internet, will gated do this, (route packages to/from the ether through
>the SUN to the 486 Un*x Machine.

>     Any suggesstions would be greatly appreciated,  Thanks in advance.

The simplest way is to give the 486 an IP address on the same net as the
SUN and have the SUN respond to ARP requests for the 486 by executing

	arp -s <486-IP-address> <SUN-IP-address> pub

on the SUN.  This avoids introducing a separate net (and reconfiguring
the routers).

-- 
Sverre Froyen (+1-303-231-1782; FAX: +1-303-231-1271)
NREL (National Renewable Energy Laboratory), Golden, CO 80401
email: sverre@nrel.gov
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Subject: Re: Limited telnet program?
Reply-To: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca (Bill Silvert)
Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:38:03 GMT

In <Bx9MK3.4nL@techbook.com> jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) writes:

>I would like to set up a limited telnet program for people to use.
>Specifically, I'd like to provide local librarians a way of telneting to
>selected online library catalogs via a menu.  If the telnet to that site
>fails, I would want the telnet program to exit with an error level,
>which I could then catch with a shell or program.  I don't want people
>who use this account to be able to exit to a shell from within telnet,
>and I don't want them to be able to telnet elsewhere.

Instead of hacking telnet, why not just restrict the account they log in to?
I've set up accounts which run programs as shells.  For example, if you
decide to use gopher as the menu program, write a program (I can provide
an example) which sets the TERM=vt100 and SHELL=/dev/null environment
variables and then runs gopher.

As for restricting where they telnet, you can always write a program
that uses a system call to run telnet, but you will have to make sure
that telnet is not available to them directly.  Perhaps with chroot?
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
InterNet Address: silvert@biome.bio.ns.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: abp@mis25.cypress.com (Andy Pippin / MIS Sun Admin. (Systems))
Subject: Re: Fastest way to transfer whole filesystems?
Reply-To: abp@mis25.cypress.com
Organization: Cypress Semiconductor
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:55:56 GMT

cole@unix.SRI.COM (Susan Cole) writes:
>
>What's the fastest way to transfer an entire filesystem from one
>disk partition to another (different type disk, larger partition)?
>I thought that a tar would be much faster than a dump and restore
>from tape, but when I tried it, using a command like:
>
>	tar cf - . | ( cd /otherfs; tar xpf - )
>
>I got a surprising slow rate, something like 2 minutes per megabyte.  Am I
>using the wrong command, or using the right command the wrong way, or is this
>just an inevitably slow procedure?  What I'm moving is the news partition,
>and I've already learned that restoring it from dump tape is horribly slow.
>The system is a Sun SPARC machine.
>
>Thanks for any assistance.


	I don't use tar to copy filesystems - it cannot handle devices and
	the like.  I use the dump/restore pipe that is in the restore(8)
	man page.

		dump 0f - /dev/rxy0g | ( cd /mnt; restore xf - )

	It's not too bad for speed - but you're definitely I/O bound on this
	type of command.

    aBp.
---
Andy Pippin, Systems Administrator                An exit from one place,
abp@cypress.com                                 is an entrance to another.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: george@wixer.cactus.org (George Wenzel)
Subject: Does anyone have SCO UNIX for sale?
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 15:12:30 GMT

The title says it all.  I'd like to get a copy of SCO with the Development
system, etc...  I don't need lots of extras as this machine will only be
used to run one package, and compile random extras needed to support the
main package.

It would be nice if it were a fairly recent, stable version.

George
-- 
George Wenzel                    |  Real/Time Communications
george@wixer.cactus.org          |  "faster, smarter and costs less..."
cactus.org!wixer!george          |  "Hardware solutions for the real world."
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From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.sys5.r4
Subject: Re: AST 4-Port for Sale
Date: 6 Nov 92 07:03:45 GMT
Organization: Pegasus,  Honolulu

>: >For sale:
>: >
>: >1 AST 4-Port Serial board fully populated w/ NS16550-AN UARTS. $200 
>: >  (This card supports shared interrupts)
>: >
>: 
>: That's pretty pricey for a $99 board with four $7 chips added.
>                             ^^^
>
>Apparently, some people thought it was a bargain.  Please let us know where 
>you can get the AST boards for $99.  Do you know how much AST sells them for?
>The last time I called them, (I admit almost a year ago) the boards listed 
>for $400.  To get them for $99 means that AST is offereing them to their 
>resellers at more than 75% margin!  
>
>I think you are referring to clone boards. Yes?  

Nope.  Though there are apparently some good clones available now too,
we bought ours from AST (a year or two ago) for $99.  This was a brand
new, sealed package with manuals, heavy duty cables, etc.

I know lots of others that have purchased them at that price.

Has the price really quadrupled?  That's close to what a smart 8-port
board goes for.

-- 
Richard Foulk		richard@pegasus.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: danson@lgc.com (Doug Anson)
Subject: libg++ on SVR4.0.3.6??
Keywords: SVR4, GCC
Organization: LandMark Graphics Corporation LGC
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:34:38 GMT

Hi:

Does anyone running a SVR4.0.3.6 system have libg++ (2.2 or 2.0)
compiled and working?  I was able to compile both versions but
the test programs give numerous unresolved references from within
libg++.a (A bunch of L_.. unresolved references -- they mostly seem
to appear from files compiled in iostream).

Is there any particular magic thats needed to get it to work?
I have successfully installed gcc.2.3.1 on my system.

Cheers!
Doug


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FAX:	  713.560.1277
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From: tdoes@igc.apc.org (Tibo Van Der Does)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Choosing a 386/486 unix
Date: 5 Nov 92 01:48:00 GMT
Nf-ID: #N:cdp:1372100024:000:244
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!tdoes    Nov  4 17:48:00 1992




I would like to learn unix and get a unix platform. Can someone
please tell me which topic no. describes this subject i.e. the
various types of unix and the optimum 386/486.

Thank you Tibo van der Does     tdoes@igc.org Tel/fax
703-525-7049
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: sterling@oldcolo.com (Bruce Sterling Woodcock)
Subject: Need a better telnet
Organization: Old Colorado City Communications (oldcolo.com - login "newuser")
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:10:35 GMT

I'm a programmer for Dell Version 4.0 for the 386.  I have been wanting to
install a better version of telnet, but after looking into <arpa/telnet.h>
I've determined this is almost impossible.  The defines just aren't there.

However, I do notice the file does include a binary option... which the
executable doesn't use, aparrently.  So what I'm really looking for is a
version of telnet that includes the binary option, yet will still compile
on this sytem with minor changes.  The other telnets I have looked at so
far are mostly BSD sources, and they implement all sorts of things that
my include files don't support.

Any help or direction in finding a better telnet that has a binary option
is MUCH appreciated.

Bruce
-- 
| sterling@netcom.com     |  "It is now quite lawful for a catholic woman to |
| sterling@oldcolo.com    |    avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics,   |
| bwoodcoc@nyx.cs.du.edu  |    though she is still forbidden to resort to    |
| sterling@gnu.ai.mit.edu | physics or chemistry." -H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) |
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