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From: pml@cajun18.cacs.usl.edu (Patrick M. Landry)
Subject: Re: Exabyte or other 8mm tape storage in quantity
Organization: The Center for Advanced Computer Studies
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 13:48:15 GMT


I had been watching out for this type of product as well. This week
I received a catalog from a computer supply house called "Visible".
On page 45 of their catalog is a large rack system for cartridge
storage. Looks like you could get 600 cartridges into a single, 
double sided rack for $600 list. Here are the details on Visible:
	Visible
	A Subsidiary of Wallace Computer Services, Inc.
	1750 Wallace Ave.
	St. Charles, IL  60174
	1-800-323-0628
	(fax) 1-800-233-2016
	61st edition catalog, Fall/Winter 1992
They have other, smaller storage systems for 8mm too. Hope this
helps.
--
patrick
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic)
Subject: Re: How to put two dumps on one tape?
Originator: root@mogate.sps.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 18:14:18 GMT

In article <66127@hydra.gatech.EDU>, dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Danny McGurl) writes:
|> ross@mecha.mit.edu (Ross Levinsky) writes:
|> 
|> >Here's an easy one. I have two Suns, and since their / partitions are so
|> >small, I'd like to dump them to both to one tape (sequentially) with the
|> >"dump" command. How do I do this (preferably without using the no-rewind
|> >options), and how do I restore the partitions correctly when they're
|> >sequential? 
|> 
|> Basicly, you don't.  The no rewind device is what this job calls for, and if
|> you aren't willing to use it then there is no solution.
|> 
|> Consider this:  After you dump the first file to the tape (and it rewinds
|> since you aren't using the no-rewind device), then *something* will have to
|> skip to the end of file mark.  Does it matter if a program does it or if you
|> write some shell script that uses mt to do it?  
|> 
|> As long as you always back the machines up in the same order, you shouldn't 
|> have to worry too much about keeping the dumps straight.
|> -- 
|> Danny McGurl                        "No, no Pixel!  Beer is not for baby cats."
|> Office of Information Technology        --Richard Ames,
|> dsm@prism.gatech.edu 		        __The Cat Who Walks Through Walls__

You don't indicate what type of tape, so I'll assume 1/4" Cartridge.  If the
machines are networked together, you can write a script which will perform the
dump from the first machine (with NO REWIND, sorry, can't avoid that) and then
the script can rsh to the other machine and do a RDUMP to the first machine's
tape (this time to the REWINDING device).

I have had almost NO success attempting to "add on" to the end of
an exabyte 8mm tape, except writing all dumps in sequence.

If you want to read multiple tar files from a single tape, remember that
tar will NOT read the end-of-file mark on the tape so a "mt fsf 1" will
be required between successive tars.

Hope this isn't too long but still helps!

-- 

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From: gt1111a@prism.gatech.EDU (Vincent Fox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problem with X11R5 on Sun 3/60
Keywords: X11, Sun 3/60
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:29:30 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Aug18.225222.16510@endicor.com> tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna) writes:
]In article <Bt783E.D5w@andy.bgsu.edu> lsczani@andy.bgsu.edu (Leszek J. Sczaniecki) writes:
]> I have downloaded X11R5 from MIT and compiled on Sun 3/60 SOS 4.1.1.
]> Works, but with an annoying bug: whenever cursor (cross) touches
]> left or right boundary X11 screen disappears and one can see
]> the last screen before starting X11. 
]> How I can fix it?

]You're stunning a cgfour, I assume? Xsun normally allows you to use both
]a color display (:0.0) and a mono one (:0.1). It sounds like something is
]wrong with rendering to the mono display. You can disable the switching
]with the -zaphod option to the X server program (X, Xsun). Of course,
]you'll be missing out on the mono display, a feature which I quite enjoy.

Err, this is confusing to me. Are you saying the cg4 takes over and displays
both the mono and color screens, but only on the color?

I have a mono 3/60 and am acquiring a cg4 and color monitor for it.
I assumed that I would be able to access both (physical) monitors,
the mono as :0.0, and the color as :0.1. Have I erred?

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: vickroy@oclc.org (J. Vickroy +1 614 764 4343)
Subject: anonymous ftp setup (yet another FAQ)
Originator: vickroy@turtle.cis.ohio-state.edu
Organization: OCLC Online COmputer Library Center, Inc.
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 17:38:53 GMT

Sorry if this is another FAQ...

Can someone point me to information in setting up anonymous
ftp?  I've got it running, but I'm more interested in some
of the security features that I've come across (like checking
for your machine name via DNS, logging anonymous users from
the password, etc.)

thanks in advance,
jim
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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How do I get my CD ROM drive up on my machine?
Date: 13 Aug 92 09:54:09 GMT
Organization: cic

ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:

>I have a CD ROM drive hooked up as device 6 on my scsi bus, but when I
>put a disk in and try mount /dev/sd6c /mnt I get "must be a block
>device." Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

You are using a magdisk driver for a CD-ROM. Use /dev/sr0.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cornell@inoc.dl.nec.com (Cornell Kinderknecht)
Subject: Re: Amd is not perfect
Reply-To: cornell@syl.dl.nec.com
Organization: NEC USA, Corporate Network Administration Division (Dallas, TX)
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 23:05:34 GMT

Jumping into this thread a little late but just wanted to contribute
a "me too".  I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on a network of Sun4s.  I'm using
a combination of regular NFS mount and Sun's automount to mount file
systems from a Sun 4/470 w/128M RAM.  Every few days, I see the problem
of the load average going up to around 6-12 and hanging there for a
while.  A look at 'top' shows nfsd's sitting up at top.  After a bit
it all goes back to normal.  I can't reproduce it but it happens
quite often.

And, I don't run NIS.

--- Cornell
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From: sandy@tivoli.UUCP (Sandy Laird)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Legato Networker experience
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:42:23 GMT
Reply-To: sandy@tivoli.UUCP (Sandy Laird)
Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX

I don't have any experience with Legato Networker, but
I do know that Epoch Systems markets a network-wide,
heterogeneous backup product similar to Networker.
One of the differences is that Epoch sells their
backup product (called EpochBackup) together with
their automatic archival product, so the old catalog files
are automatically migrated or archived to optical
storage when space is needed on the magnetic disk
for new catalogs.  The product also has automatic
expiration of old catalog files, many other nice
automatic backup scheduling features, and self-service
recovery for users.  Depending on the size of your network,
you may want to check into this alternative also.  With
a network of any real size, the added automatic archival
and management of filesystems so they don't fill up and
you don't have to compress index or catalog files is
a very nice features.

Epoch Systems is in Westborough, MA.  The phone
number is (508) 836-4711.

Note:  I used to work for Epoch, but I didn't
work on the backup product, so I don't know a
lot of details about all its features.  However,
I know it supports Sun systems, DEC Ultrix, IBM
RS6000, HP (not sure what models though), and
maybe SGI systems.

Sandy Laird
Tivoli Systems, Inc.
6034 West Courtyard Drive
Austin, TX  78730
sandy@tivoli.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: aburt@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu (Andrew Burt)
Subject: Re: creating restricted shell environments
Organization: University of Denver, Dept. of Math & Comp. Sci.
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 92 00:29:25 GMT

In <15p5rpINNnk2@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>In article <3434@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> ral@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Rebecca A. Littleton) writes:
>>I would like to create restricted shell environments
>>for some of our users. 
>>	Does Sun include such a shell in SunOS?

>Yes.  It's not documented, but /usr/lib/rsh is the restricted Bourne shell
>(it's just a link to /usr/bin/sh, and Bourne shell restricts itself
>whenever it's invoked by a name beginning with "r").

Yeeees, but what good is it?  Give folks vi and they just need to
":set shell=/bin/csh" to get a shell... Or via rn, elm, etc. etc...
Not to mention, rsh is little more than a nuisance to users, hardly
very restricted.  What's the point?
-- 

Andrew Burt 		   					  aburt@du.edu

      "And that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana-shaped"
From: rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
Date: 18 Aug 92 21:45:36 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


Well on the server you could set up dummy homes
and have the users run a newforward script for putting their .forward into
these new homes on the server.

Since this is a hub machine, I assume you don't have users logging
into it, so they shouldn't mind having dummy homes.

Also, one scheme with amd is to use these new homes to provide a
minimal environment for a user when his/her real home is unavailable.

They can at least read mail, news etc (granted saving the messages may
be problematic).

-- John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cyclone@netcom.com (Bill Sheppard)
Subject: Man pages used to format themselves
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 11:19:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

Before I upgraded my Sun 3/50 (quit laughing!) to 4.1.1 from 4.0.1 whenever I
looked at a man page it would format itself permanently - know, they don't. 
Where should I look to restore this to its previous state, such that the
second time I look at a given man page it will already be formatted.  I know
about catman, but don't want to use that much disk space.

Thanks,

Bill
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.nfs
From: jdw@wucs1.wustl.edu (j d wilson)
Subject: printcap file & filters for HP LaserJet III, SunOS 4.1.1, PC-NFS 3.5
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis Mo.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 03:50:28 GMT

I am looking for help with properly setting up the printcap file for 
an HP LaserJet III (hplj) printer to a Sun 4 running SunOS 4.1.1.

We are also running PC-NFS V3.5 (pc's running dos 5.0/windows 3.0) and 
we are not able to print any graphics files to the hplj printer which
is connected to the Sun.  I have set up PC-NFS on the PC's so that
"raw" data is sent to the Sun.  WordPerfect, and MS Powerpoint files
are not printing correctly, even though the print drivers on the PC
are current.

If anyone has had experience with setting up PC-NFS running windows,
wordperfect etc... and trying to print to an hplj printer, I would
appreciate the help.  I'm looking for the source code to any required
filter's too, or let me know where I can aquire them, or what is 
required for the HP and Sun to properly print the files from the 
PC's through PC-NFS.  I currently have some examples of printcap 
files from our local Sun rep, but I'm really courious if anyone has
ever tried this type of setup.

Direct replies would be appreciated and I will post what setup works etc.

Thanks in advance.

john wilson
email: jdw@wucs1.wustl.edu
phone: 314-991-3095
From: ramesh@veda (Ramesh Doddamani)
Subject: Help! Problem with Postscript  printer
Reply-To: ramesh@veda.cwru.edu
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 23:34:30 GMT


Hello

We have a Panasonic KXP4455 laser printer connected to our network.
 The problem is when the users print postscript files created by certain  
programs on various systems, the printer starts spewing out the postscript code  
instead of printing the image. THis is because these postscript files have only  
"%!" in the first line instead of "%!PS-Adobex.x". 
A lot of pages are getting wasted because of this. The only way to stop this is  
to log on to the print server(a SPARC SLC) as the root and cancel the printjob.  
By that time a number of pages will already have been sent to the printer.

If the printjob is given from a NeXT, it is worse. I cannot cancel it from the  
print server even as a root and also cannot cancel it from a terminal window on  
the NeXT. The only way is load the Print Manager on the NeXT(which takes some  
time to load) and use it to cancel.

Is there a way to overcome this? Has anybody come across this problem? If we  
have a filter that changes "%!" to "%!PS-Adobe3.0" will it work? I would  
appreciate if anybody has a solution for this.

Please respond by email and I'll summarise the responses.

Thanks

Ramesh

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: smartin@Canada.lsil.com (Stephen Martin)
Subject: Re: Sun 3/60 hangs while booting diskless
Organization: LSI Logic Corporation of Canada, Inc.
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 01:28:06 GMT

In article <1992Aug11.002123.14592@rigel.econ.uga.edu> glenn@rigel.econ.uga.edu (Glenn F. Leavell) writes:

   We have a diskless Sun 3/60 running 4.1.1 (without NIS/YP) which recently
   started hanging during the boot process.  The client is able to retrieve its
   boot data via tftp, and everything else seems to work fine up until:

   hostname: pick1
   domainname: pick.uga.edu
   root on pick2:/export/root/pick1 fstype nfs
   swap on pick2:/export/swap/pick1 fstype nfs size 16384K
   dump on pick2:/export/swap/pick1 fstype nfs size 16360K

At this point it might be having trouble doing a couple of things, one running
init and rc* or it might be having trouble mounting the /usr partition. You
might want to check the fstab for the client.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: albert@sedal.su.OZ.AU (Albert Hirawan)
Subject: Problem in booting Sun 3/110
Keywords: mdec installboot boot
Organization: SEDAL -- Sydney University Electrical Engineering
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 23:42:14 GMT


I'm having problems in booting up a Sun 3/110 from a hard disk running SunOS 4.1
Here are the messages from the console:

	Testing 8 Mbytes of Memory ...

	Auto boot in progress
	EEPROM boot device ... sd(0,0,0)
	sd: error 70 0 2 0 0 0 0 A 0 0 0 0 5 0 8 0
	sd: error 70 0 2 0 0 0 0 A 0 0 0 0 5 0 8 0
	sd: error 70 0 2 0 0 0 0 A 0 0 0 0 5 0 8 0
	...

I have tried to boot it from another disk that was a copy of a 3/60 machine. It
failed with the same messages. I'm quite sure there are no problems with the
disks themselves because they can be mounted normally as non-bootable disk. Now
I suspect that this may be caused by bad installboot files (am I right?). Here
are the checksums (produced by running 'sum') for the /usr/mdec files:

	22772     7 bootsd
	56477     9 bootxd
	33618     9 bootxy
	43374    24 installboot
	22772     7 rawboot

The long listing:

	-rwxr-xr-x  2 root     staff        6184 Mar  7  1990 bootsd*
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff        9201 Mar  7  1990 bootxd*
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff        9105 Mar  7  1990 bootxy*
	-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff       24576 Mar  7  1990 installboot*
	-rwxr-xr-x  2 root     staff        6184 Mar  7  1990 rawboot*

I would appreciate it very much if anybody could help me with this problem,
apart from replacing it with Sparcs (we already have a few of them).

Bunch of thanks in advance




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S.E.D.A.L. (Systems Engineering and Design Automation Laboratory)
Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Sydney
N.S.W. 2006
AUSTRALIA

Internet: albert@sedal.su.OZ.AU
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From: kimc@netcom.com (Kim Culhan)
Subject: Cannot start X VT-emulator -client not authorized
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 15:50:22 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: Cannot start X vt-emulator -not authorized
Keywords: xauth xhost X


I'm running a stand-alone IPC with Openwin3. The settup is using all
the defaults as Openwin is installed.

The problem is that when I try to start a vt-emulator (crttool-2.0)
the following errors are produced:

Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: client is not authorized to connect to server
Xview error: cannot open connection to window server: :0.0 (server package)
Also, a message is sent to the console (which appears across the bottom
of the screen -a seperate problem):

Rejected connection from W8HD (127.0.0.1)

Below this is a line suggesting man pages xhost and xauth....
These have not proven helpful...

The X apps supplied with the system work fine.

If I issue a list command to xauth I get:

W8HD:0 MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 42e06417c76dfb55cef90cb39acc28af
W8HD/unix:0  MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 42e06417c76dfb55cef90cb39acc28af

Any ideas here would be greatly appreciated.

regards
kim culhan

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From: hoehle@lindau.inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de (Joerg-Cyril Hoehle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problems with shelltool on remote display
Keywords: sun, shelltool, x
Date: 18 Aug 92 10:36:17 GMT
Organization: Information Science, Univ. of Konstanz
              D-W-7750 Konstanz, Germany

pava@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Robert S. Unoki) writes:

>I am having problems when attempting to run a shelltool via rsh on a
>remote machine.  The shelltool window appears correctly, but no
>prompt is presented.  The following error is returned to the shell that
>invoked the rsh command:
>
>ttysw-TIOCSPGRP: Interrupted system call

I sometimes get exactly the same behaviour simply by asking for a commandtool
from the OW3 menu.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-- 
 	Joerg.
hoehle@inf-wiss.ivp.uni-konstanz.de
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Problem with securenets patch 100482-02
Date: 21 Aug 92 22:23:18 GMT
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute


	Is anyone else running with this patch installed who is
also running the amd automounter?

	System: sun4, 4.1.1,  amq -v:
amd 5.2.2.2 of 1992/05/31 16:53:21 bsd44-alpha #0: Wed Jul  8 18:02:02 EDT 1992
Built by barr@darwin for a sun4 running sos4.

	Problem: After restarting servers, amd will hang and time
out when requesting mounted filesystems.  Often, the portmapper
on the machine on which the requested filesystem resides will dump
core.  (Sometimes it dumps and dies totally, other times it dumps
core but stays running)
	After renaming or removing /var/yp/securenets and restarting
ypbind, ypserv, and ypxfrd, the symptoms go away.  I have contacted the
author of amd, but have not yet gotten a reply.  The problem appears to
be with ypserv, but have triple checked my securenets file, and it
appears to be fine.

--Dave
-- 
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  lose: v. to miss from one's possession.
From: hudgens@SCRI.FSU.EDU (Jim Hudgens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: setting up anonymous ftp
Date: 14 Aug 92 02:52:53 GMT
Organization: SCRI, Florida State University
In-reply-to: ajb@winton.uucp's message of 13 Aug 92 17:26:56 GMT


One very subtle thing that  the man page forgets about is the 
file ~ftp/usr/share/lib/zoneinfo/localtime, which allows the 
time/date parts of the output of "ls -l" to be in the timezone of 
the machine rather than the GMT.  Here it was off by 4-5 hours.

I puzzled over that one for some time.  Anyone else ever notice this?

JHH

=-=-= 

In article <Bsxn4w.9ux@wpi.WPI.EDU> ajb@winton.uucp (Arthur J. Butler) writes:
>   See the man page for ftpd.  We have 4.1.2 if that matters.
   In article <1992Aug13.145838.4560@comp.lancs.ac.uk> se@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Steve Elliott) writes:
   >Somewhere recently I've read of a document describing
   >the steps to take in setting up an anonymous ftp facility.
   >Now that I've forgotten where I saw it, my boss has asked
   >me to get hold of it.
   >I turn to the net for help! Can anyone tell me where I can
   >find the document?
   >
--
Jim Hudgens 			Supercomputer Computations Research Institute
hudgens@sun13.scri.fsu.edu      

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From: veit@Unify.com (Veit Irtenkauf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Openwin 3.0
Date: 14 Aug 92 22:15:18 GMT
Organization: Unify Corporation (Sacramento)

I have a strange problem when trying to start OpenWindows 3.0 from our
Server.  When I do so, I get OpenWinodws up and running, but all
characters are mees up.  It looks like a Korean or Japanese charset /
font I'm running with.  Even the welcome screen of OpenWindows is messed
up.  However, applications that pick a font in their Xresource database,
display everything correctly.  I even copied .login, .cshrc, .xinitrc 
and .Xdefaults from colleagues who run OpenWindows without any problems 
and I get the same font problem on my screen.

Machine:  IPC
OS:  SunOS 4.1.1 sun4c

PATH, XFONTPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are all set to $OPENWINHOME/......
LANG is not set

Setting *font to 9x15 or fixed in my .Xdefaults file won't help either.

It can't be the .xinitrc settings, because this file will be executed,
after the messed-up welcome screen of OpenWindows appears on the
screen.

Our OpenWindows specialist examined the problem and couldn't find out
what the reason was.

Does anyone have any suggestion what it could be?

Thanks in advance

-- Veit


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