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From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: X-Windows Display Utility
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 22:33:14 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In article <1992Nov17.203844.13537@pb.com> hurme@micro2.pb.com (John Hurme)
writes:

|  Is anyone aware of an X-Windows utility that will re-direct graphic
|  images files to X-Window client (or servers).

Kinda ambiguous question there.  :-)

Assuming you mean to display the images other than on the console at which
you are located, there are several approaches:

1)	if you're in control, just set ``DISPLAY="otherhost:0.0"'' in the
	environment, and run the X-app; the image will display on the
	screen of "otherhost" assuming either that system has an /etc/X0.hosts
	permitting writeability from your system, or that "xhost +" (simplest
	case) was executed there to permit screen writes from your system.  See
	the man page for xhost to prevent security-related problems.

2)	if you want the image to appear on multiple other systems' displays,
	you might want to adapt the Xt lib example code from the program
	named MultiUserVote which is in export.lcs.mit.edu:/contrib/

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
From: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: does anyone have a disk x% full capture program???
Date: 16 Nov 92 06:03:37 GMT
Reply-To: bill@twg.bc.ca (Bill Irwin)
Organization: The Westrheim Group, Vancouver, B.C., Canada

fish@daacdev1.stx.com writes:

: i'm just looking for something that would occasionally run and
: see if a disk was more than say 90% full it would notify me
: instead of waiting for the 100% full kernel warnings.

:       thanx,
:               fish

This is a shell script I whipped up one day when I got surprised
about a filesystem running out of space.

----------------- snip  8<  8<  8<  snip ------------
Used=99         # Percent of file system used for warning.
Blocks=5000     # Minimum free blocks
Warning=no
[ $# -gt 0 ] && MailTo=$1
for Sizes in `df -v | grep -v Filesystem|awk '{print $6}'`
do
        if [ $Sizes -gt $Used ]
        then Print=yes
        fi
done
for Sizes in `df -v | grep -v Filesystem|awk '{print $5}'`
do
        if [ $Sizes -lt $Blocks ]
        then Print=yes
        fi
done
if [ ${Print=no} = yes ]
then
        case $MailTo in
                [A-z0-9]*)
                        TempFile=/tmp/dl.$$
                        echo "File System          % Used" >$TempFile
                        echo "-----------          ------     ---------Free  Space--------\n"\
                                >>$TempFile
                        df -v | grep -v Filesystem | \
                        awk '{
                                if( $6 > '$Used' || '$Blocks' > $5 )
                                printf( "%-10s\t\t%s\t%6d blocks   %3d.%1d Mbytes\n", \
                                $2, $6, $5, $5 * 512 / 1000000, $5 * 512 % 1000000 / 100000 )\
                        }' >> $TempFile
                        mail -s "*** WARNING *** Disk Low" $MailTo <$TempFile
                        rm $TempFile
                        ;;
                *)
                        echo "File System          % Used"
                        echo "-----------          ------     ---------Free  Space--------\n"
                        df -v | grep -v Filesystem | \
                        awk '{
                                if( $6 > '$Used' || '$Blocks' > $5 )
                                printf( "%-10s\t\t%s\t%6d blocks   %3d.%1d Mbytes\n", \
                                $2, $6, $5, $5 * 512 / 1000000, $5 * 512 % 1000000 / 100000 )\
                        }'
                        ;;
        esac
else
        echo "\nNo filesystems are low on space."
fi

----------------- snip  8<  8<  8<  snip ------------

Hope this helps.
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From: haidl@mercury.cs.uregina.ca (Mark Haidl)
Subject: Query: VMS vs Unix in a distributed environment
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 04:47:45 GMT
Organization: University of Regina, SK, Canada
Keywords: VMS UNIX Distributed computing

I am very familiar with unix and how a distributed computing
solution could be setup on our campus and I would like
to hear from someone who has experience in how/if VMS
would handle a campus wide solution where perhaps VaxStations/X-terminals/PCs
were placed on Desktops. Specifically how well are the following
handled:

	-a distributed password database(like NIS)
	-having one home directory(like NFS or AFS)
	-remote installation of application software on local
	workstation disks.
	-OS upgrades of remote Vaxstations
	-integration with DECstations?(this is really a side issue to my question)
	-other?

I am really interested in this because the central Computing Services
is interested in a big bucks centralized solution providing file
service and compute service to most of the campus. As soon as they
realize that there is a network bottleneck I am curious how easy it
will be to distribute the file serving out closer to the PCs/Vaxstations/
X-terminals.

Personally I disagree totally with the plan but I will probably
have to live with it due to how funding is handled.

If I receive enough response I will summarize. Thanks in advance.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: etnrwi@guinness.etn.ericsson.se (Raymond A. Wiker (9482))
Subject: Trouble with Laserjet IIIsi, duplex option
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 11:51:08 GMT


I'm posting this for someone without posting access, please reply to

	etnsaa@etn.ericsson.se 


Hi!

We just installed a new HP Laserjet IIISi printer towards a SUN 470
machine. We have a problem when we try to run duplex mode. If severals
prints are in the queue the current job is not finished with a form
feed leading to that next job starts on the following page.  Sometimes
on the back of last print job. Does anyone know how to solve this
problem.  This is for Postscript files.

Stein Aarum 

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: etnsaa@billingstad1ericsson.no (Stein Aarum )
Subject: Hi
Reply-To: etnsaa@billingstad1ericsson.no (Stein Aarum )
Organization: Ericsson Telecom A/S
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 09:23:18 GMT

We just installed a new HP Laserjet IIISi printer towards a SUN 470
machine. We have a
problem when we try to run duplex mode. If severals prints are in the
queue the current
job is not finished with a form feed leading to that next job starts on
the following page.
Sometimes on the back of last print job. Does anyone know how to solve
this problem.
This is for Postscript files.

Stein Aarum
From: subbarao@fc.hp.com (Kartik Subbarao)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Identifying user's remote IP address at login?
Date: 16 Nov 92 15:07:05 GMT
Reply-To: subbarao@fc.hp.com
Organization: putchar('I'); for (i = 0; i < 3; i++) putchar('E');

In article <1978@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) writes:
>brad@bradley.bradley.edu (Bradley E. Smith) writes:
>
>>why not write a program similar to this one.....and use getpeername
>
>Won't work. Most systems use a telnet daemon that "insulates" the user
>processes from the network stream so the user process can't do the
>getpeername() call. What one *could* do if one is really brave is to
>write a program that opens /dev/kmem and locates the telnetd process that
>handles _your_ session, and then walk thru the files it has open looking for
>the network connection socket... Or one could rewrite telnetd to either write
>the IP number into the log files (that is what I did. And then I rewrote
>"who", et al to use nameserver lookups for the IP numbers.) or have it write
>the full domain name into a separate log file...
>
>Either way requires root access.

There's a program that does just this called ofiles. Be warned, though, it
can be slooooooowwwwww at times...

	-Kartik
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: thurlow@convex.com (Robert Thurlow)
Subject: Re: NFS -- where do files really live?
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 15:57:28 GMT
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In <1992Nov23.035432.13490@midway.uchicago.edu> lie6@ellis.uchicago.edu (Jonathan Lieberman) writes:

>The other day I was poking around and I noticed the the /etc/passwd was
>very small. Since there are some 3000+ users this struck me as odd. less
>/etc/passwd reveal that there were only some 10-20 users listed there.
>All were admin type accounts.

>Where do the files live?

If you saw a '+:' in your local /etc/passwd, what's happening is that
NIS (formerly YP) is pulling in more password entries from an NIS server
on your network somewhere.  The way to get a complete password list in
the presence of NIS is "ypcat passwd".  The way to find out where the
NIS master database is located is "ypwhich".  Some other system config
files can use NIS as well, though the extent and nature varies.

Rob T
--
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin)
Subject: NIS works but DNS doesn't on my SPARC
Keywords: printer postscript accounting
Reply-To: epc1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 20:26:48 GMT




I have a Sun SPARCstation.
NIS works on it but DNS does not.
Any names which are in my /etc/hosts table are resolved properly, unfortunately
any names not in the table cannot be found by my system.

I'm tired of using IP addresses - please help me to get DNS working.
When I use nslookup, the correct server is identified and an IP
address is returned (non-authoritatively) for any host name I type.

I do have the resolv.conf file set up to the correct server.

A second problem I have is that I can ftp out of my system but I cannot
ftp into my system from another host.  I get a 'user access denied' after
I (or anyone else) types in the correct login.

Ftp used to work but not any more!

Can anyone help.
Much gratitude...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: abcc@DIALix.oz.au (Adrian Booth Computing Consultants)
Subject: WANTED - user account security software
Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 92 02:31:13 GMT
Summary: What third-party security software is there?
Keywords: security account software

What third-party user account security software is available for UNIX, 
especially but not limited to SunOS? 

Preferably, the software should meet the following requirements:

	- specifiable minimum password length
	- password aging on an individual username basis
	- account disabling after N unsuccessful login attempts
	- logging of unsuccessful login attempts

<Yes, I know the last one is bad, but it is unfortunately the standard
at this site>.

Other "nice" features would be:

	- automatic "your password will expire in N days" messages at login
	- screening of "obvious" passwords - e.g. username or GCOS field
	- screening of passwords against a site-modifiable dictionary
	- screening of passwords against previously used passwords
	- expiration date set on accounts
	- synchronisation of password across all UNIX systems (e.g. SCO, AIX,
		SunOS)
	- capability to pre-expire passwords, e.g. if the Help Desk has to
		set the password after a user forgets it

...in other words, we want a password system much like that provided by VMS.

A related question is the availability of software to synchronise UNIX
passwords to other platforms - e.g. IBM mainframe. Does anyone know of any?

Please respond by email; if there is sufficient interest I will summarise 
and post.

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From: sjh@banach.math.purdue.edu (Steve Holmes)
Subject: question on quota(s)
Reply-To: sjh@math.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University Department of Mathematics
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:02:40 GMT

I want to transfer quotas from one filesytem to another.  I tried
just copying the quotas file (really cat /a/quotas >> /b/quotas) 
which didn't work.  A repquota /b resulted in several lines with 
numbers instead of user names.  A quotacheck fixed it, but I still 
don't have quotas in effect for the users who were previously on /a. 

Can this be done?  How?  

I have looked for a man page with the format of the quotas file and 
haven't been able to find it.  I thought I might write a small program 
if necessary.

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: violet@crchh342.BNR.CA (Debbie Nunn)
Subject: Re: problems with a find command 
Reply-To: violet@crchh342.BNR.CA (Debbie Nunn)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 18:35:12 GMT

If it's the same as HP-UX, you need a space between the braces and
the quoted semicolon:

/usr/bin/find / -size 1000000c -atime +14 -exec compress {} \;
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461)
Subject: Re: RAM size
Organization: Allen-Bradley Co.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:05:03 GMT

menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin) writes:
: 
: How can I know the RAM size of my Sun and HP workstation ?
: (not reboot)
: Thanks.
: 
: -Jane

On a Sun you can run the dmesg command and print the messages from the
last boot. The RAM size should be in there.  Pipe it to 'grep mem' to
filter out other messages...

dmesg | grep mem

That should do it.  I don't know if you can do the same on an HP.
 
--
Thad Phetteplace
Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co.
Phone: (414)382-4461
Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com

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I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!
From: hook@eagle.geog.ubc.ca (Chris Hook)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Adding new external HD to AIX
Date: 23 Nov 1992 19:45:38 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: eagle.geog.ubc.ca

Well, here's one place where knopwing the Sun routines in your
sleep does no real good. How does one install, software-wise a
new external HD onto and AIX machine (model 560 AIX 3.2)?

I have successfully installed the HD physically, and have added
the HD to a volume group and have even managed to set the HD to
a mount point. My problem is:

-how do I define a file system size so that I can have my new
disk at something other than the default sizer of 4096KB?
(Its a Wren IX, 2100 MB).

-how do I set up a format.dat type entry for the IBM so that
AIX recognizes what kind of parameters the Wren IX has
(or is this too much SunOS'ism showing through) ?


Thanks alot,

Chris Hook -  Computing Systems/Network Manager
Atmospheric & Geographic Sciences
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
e-mail: hook@geog.ubc.ca


Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: scoggin@opus.ee.udel.edu (John K Scoggin)
Subject: Re: Printing from SNA to TCP/IP hosted printer
Organization: Delmarva Power & Light, Newark
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:30:37 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.210854.10944@dvorak.amd.com> hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser) writes:
>Can someone tell me what options I have available, if any, that will
>allow me to print from an SNA hosted IBM system to a TCP/IP hosted UNIX
>printer?
>
>Are there any packages available on the IBM that will support this (
>sorta like wollongong for the VAX i guess).
>
>As usual with this group, all ideas welcomed!!!
>
>--
>Horace
>horace.bowser@amd.com
>

Check out the TCP/IP for {VM,MVS} product.  The VM version has lpd support -
MVS support is coming Real Soon Now...

	- John

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From: petej@itcode.Eng.Sun.COM (Pete Jolly[CONTRACTOR])
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,biz.comp.telebit,biz.comp.services,ba.internet
Subject: Anyone Have An E-MAIL Feed Available?
Keywords: e-mail internet feed
Date: 21 Nov 92 01:19:08 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Distribution: ba
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: itcode

Is there anyone out there that would be willing to provide me with 
an e-mail feed.  I have a fast modem (9600+) and only need 
e-mail for now.  News is not necessary (I don't have the disk space).
I would probably only need to poll once a night at the most and the
amount of traffic would be extremely light.

Ideally the feed would be in San Jose somewhere.  The feed I had seems
to have dried up...it doesn't appear to be supported any longer.

Thanks in advance,

Pete Jolly
Intellicode Software Company
San Jose, Ca.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: kjj@pondscum.phx.mcd.mot.com (Kevin Johnson)
Subject: sysadm/machine ratio revisited
Organization: Motorola Computer Group, Tempe, AZ, USA
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 18:15:16 GMT

I've seen article flurries in this news group in the past regarding
sysadmin/machine ratios.
At the time, I didn't worry about it... :-/

Does someone have those old conversations summarized somewhere?

If not -
What are other admin groups using for sysadm/machine ratio standards
(and why)?

Obviosly, it depends on, among other things, the following factors:
	o equipment/package mix
	o whether the sysadmins are performing network and/or end-user
	  application support
	o skill level of the admins
	o level of automation

Anyone have any thoughts on the subject?

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: werner@physics.uq.oz.au (Michael Werner)
Subject: Sony NEWS OS update
Reply-To: werner@dirac.physics.uq.oz.au
Organization: Department of Physics, University of Queensland
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:59:21 GMT

Can anyone tell me the differences between Sony NEWS OS 4.1 
and 5.0. That is, what are the additions, what things work better
and what doesn't work anymore.

-- 
Yours,

Mike

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From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: WACOM digitizer on SGI IRIS
Date: 20 Nov 92 06:51:06 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <BxzBFq.5tC@hfglobe.intel.com> jimw@hfglobe.intel.com (Jim Williams) writes:

| Has any one had experiance installing a WACOM digitizer
| on the SGI IRIS?  What should I expect?  is it just another serial
| device?.

There is a wacom driver for the X input system in 4.0.X IRIX.
I don't know much more than that.  Ask on comp.sys.sgi if
you can't find it in the release notes.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Subject: Re: Need info on job queuing system
Reply-To: rvenable@helix.nih.gov (Richard M. Venable)
Organization: National Institutes of Health
Distribution: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.aix
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 15:32:34 GMT

In article <GERMAIN.92Nov19165405@tohi.DMI.USherb.CA>,
germain@tohi.DMI.USherb.CA (Luc Germain - Chimie) writes:
|> We are looking for a job queuing system that would manage many UNIX
|> boxes (actually we have 5 RS/6000 running AIX) used for intensive
|> scientific calculations (mainly fortran programs). We would like
that
|> the users submit their programs to a unique job queue, specifying
some
|> requirements about their jobs (memory needs, estimated time, special
|> libraries...)  and the queuing system would automatically dispatch
the
|> jobs to the most available station on the network that meets the
|> requirement.
|> 
|> I heard about "NQS": can this program be configured to meet our
|> requirements? Is there other queuing systems available? (Public
domain
|> or commercial).  Anybody want to comment on their experiment with
such
|> installations?

---

NQS does do some of these things, but consider the following scenario:

User A submits 6 jobs, each of which will run for 10 hours and must run
to completion before the next job starts (sequential).

User B submits 4 jobs, each requiring 12 hours, about a half later,
with
the same sequential requirement.

Under NQS, all of user A's jobs will before any of user B's 
(FIFO: first in, first out), allowing user A to monopolize the queue.

Worse yet, user A's second job would start before the first was
fininshed.

---

This is why I wrote a simple batch system that (1) interleaves, to stop
queue hogs, and (2) preserves the sequential nature of submitted jobs.
We have several HP 9000/7xx machines, with one queue per machine; no
dynamic load balancing, it's up to the users.  If there's interest, I
may
put together a slightly more secure version and assemble a distribution
package; it's mostly /bin/csh scripts and one very short FORTRAN
program.

Also, IBM is beta testing their own AIX multiple host queuing system,
code
named CONDOR and scheduled to be released under the name UNIJES which
does
restrict users from monopolizing a queue.  To my knowledge, it does not
handle the sequential job problem.

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