HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: rjensen@persistence.com (Richard Jensen)
Subject: Unknown magic type message
Organization: Persistence Software
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 23:47:04 GMT


We are now unable to start up several of the OpenWindows programs,
including FileManager. When we try to start FileManager (for instance)
we get messages on the console "Unknown magic type". We get the wastebasket
icon for only a few seconds, and then it disappears and we never get the
tool running.

The only thing that we can identify as having changed in our
environment is that we installed FrameMaker.

If anyone can give us a hint about how to fix this problem, we would
greatly appreciate it.

<Richard>
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Persistence Software, Inc.
rjensen@persistence.com
From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sun 3's, Type 4 kbds and R5
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:13:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: db.TOMA.92Nov9151323
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Not bloody likely around here!

We have several Sun 3's here running Xkernel that have Type 4 keyboards.
Now although at boot time they say they have a Type 3, all of the keys
(F10-F12 and the special keys on the number pad) work fine. Here's the
problem: I upgraded from R4 to R5 (and from Xkernel 1.4 to 1.5) and now
none of the Sun 3's that reported having a Type 3 keyboard can use the
Type 4 keys that aren't present on the Type 3 keyboard. Is there a fix
for this other than getting new boot proms for all the machines?

Thanks
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Opinionated and tunnel-visioned? Darn right. But then, my employer really
doesn't know what I'm talking about anyway...
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From: jbruce@rd.hydro.on.ca (Jim Bruce)
Subject: HDB uucp question
Organization: "Ontario Hydro - Research Division"
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 13:30:40 GMT

We are running HDB uucp to talk to our mail and news feed site. Is
there an elegant way to tell uucp to poll at fixed intervals,
regardless of the completion status of the previous poll? The
scheduler has the annoying habit of stretching out the recall interval
when calls fail. I know that I can remove the status file to force
faster recalls. Should I automate this with cron or by hacking the
uucp scripts, or is there a better method to use?

Yes, I did RTFM. The man pages and the Sun System and Network Admin
manual don't say much about polling and scheduling.

Details: SS2, HDB uucp, SunOS 4.1.1.

Please reply by email. I will summarize. Thanks in advance.

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From: root@uesama.tjp.washington.edu (Operator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Installing Anonymous FTP: A Script
Date: 6 Nov 92 16:22:52 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Nov6.162252.4818
Reply-To: root@uesama.tjp.washington.edu
Organization: University of Washington

In article 031192151323@134.7.122.51, Peter N Lewis <peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au> () writes:
>Hi All,
>
>I just got around to following Jon Wiederspan's instructions for setting up
>an anonymous ftp site, and after I followed all the instructions, I decided
>it would be better done with a script, so I wrote one up.  This simplifies
>the instructions no end!  So here are some new instructions, I hope Jon
>will put them on his site (I can't unfortunately, my link is too slow to
>allow general access).  The following is plagerised (with permission)
>totally from Jon's instructions.
>_______________________________________________________________________
>Peter N Lewis, NCRPDA, Curtin University       peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au
>GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6001, AUSTRALIA              Ph: +61 9 368 2055

I have the file on ftp.uwtc.washington.edu in /pub/FAQs/Installing_Anonymous_FTP.sh.
Having followed in the grand academic tradition, I must state that the 
instructions were not mine, but were themselves plagiarized from others' posts.
If there are any problems with the script, or enhancements, let me know and
I'll add them.

Jon Wiederspan
jonwd@uwtc.washington.edu
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From: Jon Gotow <gotow@ansoft.com>
Subject: cslip for SunOS 4.1.1?
X-Xxdate: Wed, 11 Nov 92 05:22:30 GMT
Organization: Ansoft Corporation
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d12
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 05:25:04 GMT

Does the 4.0 cslip implementation found in the slipware package (believe
I got it from ftp.uu.net) run under 4.1.1 (it seems it should)?  I
installed it, but had to hack the interface name for the pseudodevice to
install it next to the uncompressed SLIP I already have running.  Did I
just screw up with the interface names?  If not, how does one get
compressed SLIP running on a Sparc2 running 4.1.1?  Any pointers would be
appreciated.
___________________________________________________________________
Jon Gotow            |   "Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump;
Ansoft Corporation   |    you may be freeing him from being a camel."
gotow@ansoft.com     |                       - G. K. Chesterton
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From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: DAT's on 4.1.2
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:35:57 GMT

On Thu, 5 Nov 1992 21:13:29 GMT, kde@boi.hp.com (Keith Emmen) said:

> Well, It's time to ask the net, since I haven't been able to figure it 
> out myself.

> We have a Sun clone (Hyundai) running vmunix 4.1.2.  We have been
> trying to hook a DAT tape drive to the system, and while it is 
> recognized at bootup, subsequent attempts to access it result in 
> messages implying that it's off line or the tape is not loaded.

> When it boots, we see:

>       st0 at esp0 target 4 lun 0
>       st0: <Vendor 'HP      ' Product 'HP35450A      -A'>

> but when we try to talk with mt(1), we see:  (there is no device file st0)

>        / # mt -f /dev/rst0 status
>       /dev/rst0: no tape loaded or drive offline
>        / #

If you look at the man pages for st, you will find that Sun doesn't support
DAT tapes in the default list of scsi tape devices.  Sun likes Exabytes.
Anyway, I don't know exactly what devices Hyundai supports but I suspect it's
pretty much the same.  You need to modify the files for the kernel to support
DAT drives.

You should be able to get the files from the manufacturer of the DAT drive.

John

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From: svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steven Fenger)
Subject: Re: what is prestoserve??
Organization: The Great Beyond
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 03:04:47 GMT

In article <1992Nov4.212349.19891@sj.ate.slb.com> poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
>I am not sure at what level the write caching is done in the PrestoServe, but
>in an Auspex file server, their SPIII option which has a similar battery
>backed write cache feature, even if your NFS write mix is not high, the write
>cache can have a dramatic impact on total throughput. In the Auspex, the write
>cache is done at a very low level, caching ALL disk writes. Even though my
>average NFS write mix is around 5%, my actual disk write percentage is closer
>to 30 or 40%.

The Presto also caches all disk writes.  The thing is that the Presto
board seems to always be pushed as an enhancement to NFS, even though
it really has nothing to do with NFS.  So in order to justify a Presto
board for an increase in NFS performance, NFS writes need to be 10%
or greater of your NFS load.

I'm surprised that Sun hasn't also started pushing the Presto board as
a database excellerator, since it would also speed up a database if that
database required a lot of updates.
-- 
Steven Fenger    fenger@cps.msu.edu    svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil
What for you bury me in the cold, cold ground?
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From: derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek Terveer)
Subject: format entry for Ricoh RO5031E Removable Optical + SCEA-2000/E
Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 22:25:00 GMT

Does anyone have a format.dat entry or entries for a Ricoh model
RO5031E Removable Optical drive plus a piggy-backed SCEA-2000/E bridge
card?  All i have is the following:

disk_type = "Ricoh RO5031E Removable Optical w/SCEA bridge" \
        : ctlr = SCSI \
        : ncyl = 18496 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 18498 : nhead = 1 : nsect = 31 \
        : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 44823
 
partition = "one big Ricoh Optical partition" \
        : disk = "Ricoh RO5031E Removable Optical w/SCEA bridge" \
        : ctlr = SCSI \
        : c = 0, 573376 : g = 0, 573376

but i don't think that the "bpt" is correct, for starters.

derek
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From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Subject: Re: Network Monitoring Software Help...
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 15:32:24 GMT

iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
: In article <1992Nov12.004840.22155@crc.ricoh.com> shahryar@crc.ricoh.com (Shahryar G. Hashemi) writes:
: >Dear all,
: >
: >I have been asked to find a good Network Monitoring Software
: >[preferably X based] which will allow me to monitor packets flowing
: >across the net, distinguish if our current net needs to be split
: >and connected via a bridge, etc.  I would like to get input from
: >people about what products you think do this job well [a public
: >domain/shareware product is preferred, but a commercial product
: >would be acceptable].  Please respond to me about your
: >recommendations via e-mail.
: 
: While something X based may be good for looking at your net at a particular
: moment, you may want something that can collect stats over a longer time.
: Take a look at NNstat; it runs on Suns, DECstations, and DEC VAXen
: running Ultrix.  You can configure it to gather information you consider
: important (such as which two hosts are exchanging packets, which host
: is receiving or sending packets, etc).  It comes with some scripts to
: summarize the data it collects, but it's pretty easy to write scripts
: to play with the data in whatever way you want.
: 
If you are willing to shell out $ I recommend NetMetrix from Metrix
Network Systems.  We have a version that runs under OpenWindows on a
Sun.  It includes traffic and trend monitors, a great protocol analyser,
and some nifty troubleshooting tools.  We have found it a great
alternative to lugging our Network General Sniffer all over the
building.

Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer.
I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!


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From: randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis)
Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
Reply-To: randy@megatek.com
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 23:30:57 GMT

In article <JIK.92Nov9124104@pit-manager.mit.edu> jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:
|Thanks go out to everyone who pointed out to me in E-mail that
|loopback mounts were not working for me because I don't have "options
|LOFS" in my kernel's config file.
|
|What I don't understand is why none of the documentation I pored over
|mentioned that it was a kernel configuration option or mentioned
|kernel configuration in the "SEE ALSO" section.
|
|I guess I was just supposed to KNOW....

  Well, actually, the generic kernel has LOFS compiled in, by default.  Since
you, or someone else administering the machine, must have removed it if you
aren't running the generic kernel, YOU are supposed to *know*... :-)  Not
really something that you can blame the Sun documentation about, although I
agree with lots of complaints about the docs.

Randy Davis                            Email: randy@megatek.com
Corporate Network and System Administrator    megatek!randy@uunet.uu.net
Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California    ucsd!megatek.uucp!randy

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jarocki@dvorak.amd.com (John Jarocki)
Subject: Any canned system/printer downtime report scripts?
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 92 16:30:14 GMT

Good day all,

I was recently asked by a fellow sysadmin here if I knew of any
software to generate reports on SunOS system and printer downtime.

The idea sounds pretty simple, but out of the laziness of my heart
I thought I'd first post and see if anyone else has written such
a beastie.

Any help would be muchly appreciated.

regards,
john

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From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Problems after upgrading to 4.1.2 from 4.1.1
Date: 9 Nov 92 11:34:07 GMT
Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????'


System:   4.1.2 on Sun4 server with Sun4c clients

Problems:

	A.  Domain Service no longer works.  I am running NIS and have
	    'B=-b' uncommented in the yp Makefile.  The server is a
	    local machine to BU and /etc/hosts only contains info for
	    local machines.  /etc/resolv.conf points to machine which
	    contains all the necessary host information.  However, it
	    does not seem to be getting this info dynamically.
	    nslookup works fine.  

	B.  X11R4 - xterm -C no longer works.  It seems that the
      	    console is no longer changing ownership when someone logs
      	    in via xdm.  

	C.  And certainly many more as I play with the system.  What
  	    are the necessary patches to install for 4.1.2?  Any other
  	    points, thoughts, suggestions would be greatly
  	    appreciated!!

Thanks again!
--
			-- James Cameron  (jc@raven.bu.edu) (617) 353-2879
					  
    System Manager, Signal Processing and Interpretation Lab.  Boston, Mass  
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: ats@bigfoot.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: DAT's on 4.1.2
Date: 6 Nov 92 23:18:01 GMT
Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin

In article <Bx9HMI.5Eu@mail.boi.hp.com> kde@boi.hp.com (Keith Emmen) writes:
>      st0 at esp0 target 4 lun 0
>      st0: <Vendor 'HP      ' Product 'HP35450A      -A'>
>
>but when we try to talk with mt(1), we see:  (there is no device file st0)
>
First better make a "MAKEDEV st0" under /dev to get all the necessary
devices.
And for your DAT tape, get a better disctributor :-).
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 }
}

No warranty for this, i am only testing it in the moment myself. I am
trying to fill a 2Gb disk drive and this HP DAT at the same time
from a busy network :-).



-- 
	  ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de )

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
Subject: Re: High Speed Serial Patch
Reply-To: cecil@physics.unc.edu
Organization: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 20:15:29 GMT

>Kevin D. Sears, GE Medical Systems, searsk@med.ge.com writes:
>Many times I've seen the discussion come up regarding high speed modems and
>Suns serial port problems. The following patch can be purchased from
>Sun Consulting.
>CONSULT-HSPEED version 1.3
>
>Sun UNIX releases supported: 4.0 4.0.1 4.0.3 4.1 4.1.1 [and 4.1.2]
>Workstations models supported: sun3 sun4 sun386 sun3x sun4c
>
>This special consists of a streamlined, low-overhead STREAMS module that
>provides reliable input at
>speeds up to 38.4 Kbps over any Sun serial RS-232 port.

I just called Sun Consulting on this (1-800-225-4449). They want $950/cpu (!!!)
for this patch, $2850 for 10, & $5700 for a site license!  All for software
that should have been there in the first place (or at least in 4.1).  Moreover,
it's still the zs serial port, so ``if you type or use the mouse during a
transfer [at 38.4 kps], characters will probably be dropped.''  Yuck.
---
Gerald Cecil cecil@wrath.physics.unc.edu  919-962-7169 
Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA

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From: peter@wiesel.cosy.sbg.ac.at (Peter Burgstaller)
Subject: HELP: building TeX
Organization: University of Salzburg / Austria
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:21:14 GMT

Hi folks!
I'm tryin' to build TeX3.14 on a Sun IPX under SunOS 4.1.2 & Openwin3
I get the following error several times:
ld: Undefined symbol
	_XtStrings
*** Error code 2
make: Fatal Error: Command failed for target 'virmf' ...

I tried to include first the X11R5 Xt library and then the
openwin one. But the error occured again!
Any suggestions?
(TeX shoulb be running since the day before yesterday!)

- Peter 8*{

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From: mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Letting users mount floppis
Date: 12 Nov 92 14:44:16 GMT
Organization: Math / CS, State Univ. of N. Y. College at Fredonia
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3


	
	Sun  stations  with   floppy  drives  allows  mounting  a  DOS
formatted  disk and  provides an interface to the  disk under  Sun OS.
However,  mount requires  super  user permission.  Is  there a way one
could let users mount their diskettes under their own home directories
without compromising security?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.hp
From: bt@irfu.se (Bo Thide')
Subject: Re: Mounting /usr/spool/mail from HP?
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 16:16:04 GMT
Organization: Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden

In article <TML.92Nov12030940@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi> tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) writes:
>
>What a relief to see somebody complaining about SunOS being
>"peculiar", "interesting" and "different" for a change!
>
>P.S. Yes, I am old enough to realize that both HP and Sun have their
>own idiosyncranies (sp?), and that neither is more correct that the
^^^^^idiosyncrasies^^^^^^^^^^

>other.  However, I am "root" for our HP machines and have been
>irritated by people on the net continuously asking "why doesn't this
>or that detail work like on our Suns?".
>--
>Tor Lillqvist,
>working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland,
>Laboratory for Information Processing (VTT/TIK).


Well spoken.

Bo
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From: rao@hsi.com (Ananth Rao)
Subject: Re: ?Postscript to HP PCL converter
Keywords: Postscript,convert,HP PCL
Organization: 3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford CT
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 14:57:31 GMT

In article <4494@datum.nyo.dec.com> frank@nyo.dec.com writes:
>
>Ghostscript might do the trick.  It's available on gatekeeper.dec.com as
>pub/GNU/ghostscript-2.5.2.tar.Z.  Fonts are pub/GNU/ghostscript-fonts-2.5.tar.Z.
>Try it.
>
>					Frank

And once you've built gs, don't forget to print the pcl files by sending them
to the raw printer device (eg. cat foo /dev/lp?), otherwise the print spooler
does some CR, LF transformations that will screw up the raster image that
you are printing.

-Ananth


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