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From: pam@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Pat Macdonald)
Subject: iostat -D util - what is it
Originator: pam@ccu.umanitoba.ca
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 19:48:24 GMT

For SunOS (4.1.2) the man page for iostat states the following:

> -D   For each disk, report the reads per second, writes  per
>      second, and percentage disk utilization.

Can somebody please tell me what "percentage disk utilization" is?
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: laum@csri.toronto.edu (Marc Lau)
Subject: Need help with HP LJ 3
Keywords: printcap entry
Date: 17 Nov 92 04:02:07 GMT

Hi folks,

'hope this question has not been asked a zillion times before ... 8^)

I am trying to hook up an HP laserjet III with a PS plus cartridge to
a Sparc station.  I am wondering what the printcap entry should be.
Any hints?

Please e-mail your response.

Many thanks.

laum.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
Subject: Re: SUN 4/330 login problem
Organization: Intellection, Inc.
Distribution: comp
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 17:47:42 GMT

In article <novik.721924033@cesdis1> novik@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov (Novik Dmitry) writes:

	   On our SUN 4/330 ,it takes nearly 2 minutes to get into the
   system after one types in the password. This problem strangely goes 
   away after sometime(2 wks or so). This has happened 3 or 4 times already.
   We are running OS 4.1.1 . This is a standalone machine. I would appreciate
   very much if somebody can help me out in fixing this problem. 
   Please send replies to :
   raghu@lepgnc.gsfc.nasa.gov
   .

This can occur when /bin/login checks disk quotas.  If an NFS server
has hung up or disappeared, leaving a file system mounted on the local
system, the quota check on the NFS file system will delay the login
for a couple of minutes.  The problem will go away when the system is
rebooted, the NFS file system is unmounted, or the server comes back.

Copy sent to <raghu> by private mail.
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From: wrwalke@ddn-wms.nmi.com (William Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: what is prestoserve??
Summary: prestoserve on alternate bus...
Date: 17 Nov 92 20:23:23 GMT
Organization: Network Mgmt Inc., Fairfax, VA

In article <1992Nov02.093827.6272@einoed.in-berlin.de>, alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne) writes:
> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
> 
> >PrestoServe is something like a write buffer for NFS. Writes are saved
> >into static, battery buffered RAM to be written to disk "at leasure".
> >Pros: helps a lot if you have lots of NFS writes.
> >Cons: does not help much if you don't. ;-)
> 
> [...]
> There is (at least =) a minor problem with the PrestoServe accelerators,
> you can only accelerate those disk drives that are on the same bus as the
> PrestoServe accelerator, i.e. you need the VME board. We tried to accelerate
> additional SCSI disks on a 4/670 which lead to server crashes when mounting
> the devices. I didn't find a single note in the release notes about this.


in 4.1.2, you could set BOUNCEIO option and have VME Prestoserve handle
the Sbus-SCSI controllers.  i found this one while upgrading my 470 to
a 670 MP.  the machine ran _significantly_ slower as an MP.  the fix was
to enable a memcopy feature allowing controller-controllers to cross the
bus lines.

i no longer have a hybrid (upgraded) machine around, all of my machines
are running 4.1.3, and are all new rev HW, so i can't look it up. 8-(

bill.




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Rob.E.Allan@hydro.on.ca (Rob E. Allan)
Subject: SunPC causing IEEE error?
Reply-To: Rob.E.Allan@hydro.on.ca
Organization: Ontario Hydro
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 15:58:00 GMT

While running a certain portion of a monster FORTRAN code we always get
the following error while SunPC is also runnning:


IEEE exception code 204 occurred at pc00 - 134225520


and a bunch of other #'s. If we run the code without SunPC runnning,
it works fine. This code has run without incident numerous times on
many different machines without any problems.

This happens on an IPC (24Mb RAM) running SunOS 4.1.2, OpenWindows 3.0,
and Fortran 1.4. We have installed numerous patches on OpenWindows and
patch: 100700-01 for SunPC. Any insight on this problem would be greatly
appreciated.


rob allan	email:rob.e.allan@hydro.on.ca
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From: usmyrtle@mcs.drexel.edu (Steven Myrtle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: reboot()
Date: 21 Nov 92 21:02:21 GMT
Organization: Drexel University

I need to write a program that uses reboot(RB_HALT) under SunOS 4.1.x to
mimic the action of /usr/etc/halt.  Is there anything I should do before
calling reboot(), like closing all file descriptors and killing the
syslog daemon (halt seems to do that)?  Is there any place I could get
the code for halt?

Please email me if possible.

Thanks,
Steven (usmyrtle@mcs.drexel.edu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Faster ports for SunNet X.25
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 21:32:33 GMT

Is anyone using SunNet X.25 with something faster than the CPU serial
ports?  I'd like something that goes up to 64kb.  The machine is a 4/670,
so either VME or SBUS cards would do.

-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
From: peter@essex.ac.uk (Allott P R)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: PROM passwd
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:55:40 GMT
Reply-To: peter@essex.ac.uk (Allott P R)
Organization: University of Essex, Colchester, UK

One of our departmental administrators has set up PROM passwords
on his department's machines. He is away for 2 weeks, and what he
said was the passwd does not work. (Is this because it contains 
non-alphameric characters?) Is there any way out of this?
What do SUN charge for new proms? The machine is not running so I
cannot use eeprom.

No I haven't stolen the SUN - Honest!
From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How to autorebuild yp data in response to yppasswd?
Date: 18 Nov 92 19:36:51 GMT
Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????'
In-reply-to: css@tron.stx.com's message of 18 Nov 92 15:27:35 GMT


>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Shenton <css@tron.stx.com> writes:

  Chris> Nntp-Posting-Host: tron.stx.com

  Chris> I've been asked to set up a couple Suns and am having
  Chris> problems getting the rpc.yppasswdd to automatically rebuild
  Chris> the yp maps after a user changes his/her info with a yppasswd
  Chris> command. The manual and manpages conflict in how to set this
  Chris> up and none of the permutations I have tried work.

  Chris> Both indicate I need add startup of rpc.yppasswdd in
  Chris> /etc/rc.local, and add the `-m' flag to automatically re-make
  Chris> in the /var/yp directory from the source passwd file which I
  Chris> keep in /var/etc/passwd.  Here's my attempt -- with flames --
  Chris> any ideas?

  Chris> Thanks.

[...]


  Chris> if [ -f /usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd -a -d /var/yp/$dname ]; then
  Chris> rpc.yppasswdd /var/etc/passwd -m DIR=/var/etc ; 

[...]

There is a bug in rpc.yppasswdd as it ignores the first argument which
begins with a '-'.  The solution is to add '-nosingle' as the first
argument as this is the default behaivor.  

Hope that helps!

James
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From: pchan@mdd.comm.mot.com (Pat Chan)
Subject: Help: cannot start "openwin -nosunview"...
Organization: Motorola - Mobile Data Division; Richmond, BC
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:33:25 GMT

I want to start openwin without sunview stuff.
According to my OW3 manauls, what I need is to
invoke
       openwin -nosunview

But when I do it, it complains, 

       /usr/sys/sun4c/OBJ/evqmod-sun4c.o file does not exist
       Xnews: Error: Unable to load evq module.

Any hint???!!!
Thanx..




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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: nyelle@ccrs.emr.ca (Norman Yelle)
Subject: Minimum version of OS on a SS10 ??
Organization: Canada Centre for Remote Sensing, Ottawa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:30:19 GMT


Some time ago someone (from Sun) posted an article stating
which was the minimum version of the operating system which could run
on the SparcStation 10.  Could someone please send me that article
via e-mail.

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jxh@certes.icd.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein)
Subject: Re: Can't build kernel after upgrade to 4.1.3
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:06:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov15.070858.1986@attain.icd.teradyne.com> jxh@certes.icd.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein) writes:
>I just upgraded my 4/670-140 to 4.1.3, from 4.1.1 (skipping 4.1.2), and
>everything went fairly smoothly, until I tried to rebuild my custom
>kernel.  When make tries to link vmunix, I get the following unresolved
>references:
>
>loading vmunix
>ld: Undefined symbol
>   _maxasynchio_cached
>   _perproc_maxasynchio
>*** Error code 2
>

I got a few prompt responses to this, and I promised I'd summarize.

One must remove the entire ../PICKLE (the name of your custom config)
directory, *then* do "config PICKLE; cd ../PICKLE; make".  There were some
timestamp problems that confused make, after the upgrade.  Removing all the
files in the build directory solved the problem.

Thanks to:
Clive Elsum  <cce@dar.csiro.au>
Michael C. Nesel <mcnesel@cs1.dfrf.nasa.gov>
Hans Larsson <hans@smab.se>
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: glenn@admin.acadiau.ca (GLENN DAVIDSON)
Subject: HELP: Need errno.h (strerror) from ACC
Keywords: C++, ERRNO, ACC
Organization: Acadia University
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 14:17:34 GMT


	I am trying to compile a public domain program that was made using 
SUN's ACC compiler. I only have GCC available to me on our SUN. I have 
attempted compiling by making the appropriate changes to the Makefile but 
there is one thing still missing. That one thing is the routine "strerror" 
which is supposed to exist in errno.h but GCC does not have it. Would it be 
possible (and legal I assume) for someone to e-mail me that routine from the 
ACC errno.h file so that I can add it directly to this source code. Thanks.

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From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Subject: Re: increase the number of steam pipe devices?
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:24:29 GMT

emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:

>In article <1992Nov16.230629.6155@nynexst.com> jungsj@nynexst.com (Shana-Ji Jung) writes:

>   Could someone tell me how to increase the number of steam pipe
>                                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
>   devices on a sun workstation runing 4.1.2?

>Um . . . call a plumber?  :)

[Rummaging around in desk] "Wait, I think I have some Tee-fittings here..."

-Pete

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (Carl Brewer)
Subject: Re: writing down root password
Organization: Dept. Engineering Computer Resources, Melbourne Uni.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 03:00:57 GMT

In article <1ehftbINN5bc@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:
>kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela) writes:
>
>>I may have misinterpretted this, but:
>>If /etc/passwd was indeed trashed, and the "root" entry was either missing
>>or wrong, what good would it do to have the root password at all?  If
>>you can't become root in multi-user, and the console is marked as not
>>being secure in /etc/ttytab, you can't become root via booting
>>single-user either, unless you boot from some other device (another bootable
>>partition, CD, tape, net, etc. . .)
>
>Are you sure about this?  I was under the impression that when you boot
>into single user mode, the userid is 0 and it is irrelevant what is in
>/etc/passwd.  The reason I say this is that single user mode ignores many

it is correct, if you have set the console as not secure in the ttytab,
then you must have the root passwd to log in as single user.  The only
other way in is as said above, via another device eg CD-rom


>other useful features of unix.  Being short of terminals we put a mega dumb
>terminal as the console of a VAX 11/750.  UPPER CASE ONLY!  This was fine
>and you could just manage to use it.  Then we wanted to take the machine
>back to single user mode and did so, but all of a suddent unix forgot that
>the terminal was uppercase only and refused to run any of the upper case
>commands we were typing.  The console on our VAX was easily accessible, but
>was secure under the pretence that nobody in their right mind was going to
>go screwing with the buttons and dials on the front of the VAX in case they
>broke something.  Bit stupid really.  How could you possibly break a VAX?

how could you break a VAX?  A sledge hammer ?

>
>>Passwords should be something "not easily guessed" (Given enough time, 
>>any brute-force method would *eventually* discover a password.  The
>>question is would it be in our lifetime?
>
>A friend is working on a Macintosh network program and has started delving
>into the 2 way encryption that it uses.  If you are snooping the network
>and you see the random number for the encryption go one way and then see
>the encrypted password (based on the random number) go back the other way,
>you can build yourself a highly pipelined hardware password cracker for
>about $10000.  I think the actual figure was less.  This password cracker
>would take about 3 years to crack any given password.  Given the small cost
>of this, any respectable institution could crack arbitrary passwords in
>months or even weeks for perfectly acceptable amounts of money.


but would a "reasonable" institution be trying to raid other networks?


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From: davidc@panix.com (David B. Chorlian)
Subject: Network Statistics Scripts
Summary: Availabilty of shell scripts to collect network statistics
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:01:44 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Keywords: TCP/IP, NFS, netstat, network

Does anyone have, or have references to, shell scripts which collect
network statistics, that they can _e_mail_ to me, as I don't have
ftp access?  Purpose:  We have a network of about 20 machines which
is shortly to be connected to the campus-wide network, and thus to
the world.  I would like to provide the campus network administrator
some statistics on our level of traffic, since our group would be
by far the largest of any group currently connected.  At the moment
we have no performance problems on our network, as we have no diskless
workstations, fewer users than machines, and only occasional bursts
of cross-network file transfer.  Thus I feel no need to invest in
any sophisticated network tuning software.

David B. Chorlian
Neurodynamics Lab
SUNY/HSCB 
davidc@panix.com

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: gdc11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.D. Carver)
Subject: Re: Problems with OW3 mailtool
Keywords: OW3, Mailtool
Organization: U of Cambridge, England
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 13:02:48 GMT

In article <Bxy02K.F61@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
|> In <1992Nov18.135646.4302@infodev.cam.ac.uk> gdc11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.D. Carver) writes:
|> 
|> >Ever since upgrading to OW3, I've been plagued by not having enough
|> >space in /var/spool/mail for users default mailboxes. With the version
|> >of mailtool in OW2, I use to get users to have 
|> >'set nohold'
|> >in their .mailrc file so that read messages would automatically be moved
|> >to their private mbox. But now with OW3 version, this no longer happens,
|> >Mailtool ignores the nohold variable.  Is this a known bug and is there a
|> >patch?
|> 
|> The problem may be the ``set hold'' that appears in /usr/lib/Mail.rc.
|> Try changing that.
|> -- 
|> -Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-

Sorry, perhaps I should have made it clearer. I DO have set nohold in my .mailrc
file. This is read AFTER the /usr/lib/Mail.rc file so it overwrites whatever's
in /usr/lib/Mail.rc. I tried taking the set nohold line out of /usr/lib/Mail.rc
for the helluvait but it made no difference.

Remember, mail works fine, it obeys the nohold variable, but Mailtool OW3 doesn't
(but the version from OW2 did), it retains the mail in /var/spool/mail.

So, is this a bug and is there a patch? Or is it a feature? Alternatively, can I
make sendmail deliver direct to a user's private mailbox instead of
/var/spool/mail? (see original posting).

All help much appreciated.

Glenn Carver
Systems Adminstrator
Cambridge Centre for Atmospheric Science
From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
Date: 20 Nov 92 15:04:47 GMT
Organization: cic

mazumdar@mary.cs.fredonia.edu (Jin Mazumdar) writes:


>	I was shocked to hear my Sun sales  rep  tell me that  the new
>Sun  machines  will not even  run  Sun  OS.  I  wasn't planning  to re
>install all the software on my server that  I  just installed did last
>Summer.   However, I  like  the prices and  performance claims  of the
>Sun's new line.

Small semantic play: all Sun machines run SunOS, one variant or another.
Even though Sun is changing the OS base from BSD to SVR4, the result is
still called SunOS, in this case 5.0 and on.

It is not SunOS vs. Solaris, it is SunOS 4.x vsersus SunOS 5.x, or
Solaris 1.x versus Solaris 2.x.

>	Which makes me think that this would be the ideal time for FSF
>(Gnu project) to complete and release their operating system  and have
>support for  the new line of Suns.  Anyone know of the status of their
>OP  SYS  project?   Going  by their  past record of creating excellent
>software, I  would consider runnning FSF's  OP SYS and giving up Sun's
>software altogether - at least I'll have access to source.

Please don't rush them. For my part, I have had my share of rushed
OS releases. SunOS 4.0 was much, much worse than 5.0, even though it
was a smaller step. But the developers were under heavy pressure to
get it done. So they cut edges. I can't blame them.

And Sun learned from that. The SVR4 transition was infinitely
better prepared. Except nobody seems to have listened before
Sun made the transition a fact with the new machines.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: smithsw@che12.ncsu.EDU (Steven Smith)
Subject: HELP-- Postscript Printer with Sun3/80
Keywords: Printer
Reply-To: smithsw@che12.ncsu.EDU (Steven Smith)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 22:19:49 GMT

Hi,

I am trying to attach a NEC LC-890 postscript printer to my Sun 3/80
running SunOS 4.0.3. At first I thought the parallel port would be the
easiest. However, when I try to cat to the device /dev/pp0 I get the
device not found message. I have the following line in the kenel config
file:

    device pp0 at obio ? csr 0x6f000000 priority 1

and I used the MAKEDEV pp0 command to create the device files.
I am not sure what kind of entry I need in the /etc/ttytab file.

Any suggestions on how to get the parallel port to work and a typical
printcap file for a postscript printer on the parallel port would be
appreciated. Please send suggestions to smithsw@chess.ncsu.edu.

Thanks,
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From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Subject: Re: How do I reconfigure kernel on Sun3 to get more processes?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 21:00:32 GMT

mathieu@geod.emr.ca (Pierre Mathieu) writes:
: Can anybody tell what I need to change to get more processes on our
: Sun 3/270 running SunOS 4.1? I expect I have to rebuild the kernel
: with some parameter modification but what is the parameter? What file
: do I change?
: 
Change the MAXUSERS parameter. There is an equation that I think
is in the params.c file that determines #of processes based up
on the MAXUSER parameter 
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