HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: bradshaw@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Using a non-postscript HP Ljet on a SPARCstation
Date: 23 Aug 92 17:18:53 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I have recently setup our Sun SPARCStation IPC as a print server
to our PC's via PC-NFS v3.5b with a HP LaserJet IIIP. However,
the printer is not postscript compatible and only recognises
HP-PCL/HPGL formatted print files. I was wondering if anyone
knows of any (freely available) Sun based software which will
act as a driver for the printer such that incoming print jobs
will be formatted in PCL or HPGL. I am aware of Sun's NeWSPrint
software which performs a similar job...I guess I'm looking for
a freely available equivalent. All replies appreciated. Thanks in
advance..... My E-Mail addresses are below.

CBRADH89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
BRADSHAW@CCVAX.UCD.IE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.aix
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: RPC error using yppasswd
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 07:51:52 GMT

newsmgr@idiws1.idi.battelle.org writes:

>Hello, we have a NIS/NFS setup with a Sun workstation running 4.1.2 as 
>the NIS server.

>A user on a Rs6000 running AIX v3.2 with cumlative patch tape of 9 Aug installed
>attempts a yyppasswd:

>% yppasswd
>Changing NIS password for willie
>Old NIS password:
>New password:
>Retype new password:
>RPC: Server can't decode arguments
>couldn't change passwd

>What does that RPC error mean? At the time the Sun system was slow due to 
>heavy load I could do a yyppasswd with my own account.

>Thanks!

If it happens every time this particular user uses yppasswd, it
is probaly due to a bug in rpc.yppasswdd. It uses a function to
check the length and validity of the arguments. For the gecos and
shell fields, it is obvious they have a maximum length and a restricted
character set. The stupid thing is that the cleartext old password which
is also transmitted as a check, is also checked against similar restrictions.

My guess is that this user has a current password with control characters
or a ':' in it. Locally, I've nop'ped out this test on the old password.

Casper
-- 
						|	Casper H.S. Dik
						|	casper@fwi.uva.nl
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: darren@hawkesbury.uws.EDU.AU (Darren Bovis)
Subject: Two ethernet cards attached to same physical network
Organization: University of Western Sydney, Hawkesbury
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 01:16:34 GMT


Recently we have purchased an SBUS ethernet controler for one of our
backbone SUN's under the pretense that we could route between two
logical subnets on the same physical network. That is we have run out
of IP addresses in the backbone subnet and were attempting to run 
another gateway between the new subnet. This doesn't work due to the 
ethernet controler not having its own MAC address (uses the internal 
controlers address). This causes re-occuring broadcast storms on the
local ethernet not to mention numerous other problems.

Since then we have turned off ip-forwarding in the kernel and told routed
not to supply RIP update's. This stops the broadcast stroms and still
allows our BOOTP (etc...) requests on the new subnet but still doesn't
fix the problem we were intending. ie. adding another gateway to route
between the two subnets.

Has anyone been in the same situation or any ideas would be would be
much appreciated.

Thankyou,

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Darren Bovis.					email: d.bovis@uws.edu.au.
Network Analyst.
University of Western Sydney.
Hawkesbury.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: automounter vs auto.master
Date: 2 Sep 1992 19:13:41 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <rhoward.715453276@matd> rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:
>     Entries in both direct and indirect maps can be modified  at
>     any  time.   The new information will be used when automount
>     next uses the map entry to do a mount.  automount  does  not
>     cache map entries.

That will work for changing existing direct map entries and for adding
entries to indirect maps, but it won't let you add or delete direct map
entries or new indirect maps.  The automounter only creates the (pidNNN)
mounts, which implement direct mounts and indirect maps, when it first
starts up.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Subject: Re: To upgrade (4.1.3) or not to upgrade that is ...
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 07:58:19 GMT

In <1992Sep1.225854.8820@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au> mos@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Michael O'Sullivan) writes:
>larry@abtlabs.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) writes:
>>Anybody have any more info on what 4.1.3 does?
>I was under the impression that 4.1.3 was really only released for the 
>the sparc 10 Uniprocessor models. Since a version of Solaris2.0 will not
>run on these till early 93 (?). 

I don't have any better info on what 4.1.3 does offhand, but I got it
and installed it on some Sparc 1's, a 2, and some ELC's last weekend,
largely because there were some problems that Sun advised me were Software
related and said that the patches had been incorporated into 4.1.3.
I had been planning on going up to 4.1.2 on these machines anyway (from
4.1.1) and so I just jumped on up.  It is nice that the sunupgrade deals
with upgrades from both 4.1.1 and 4.1.2 so I didn't have to do a double
upgrade.
-- 
Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
                         jello is cheaper than horses!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lucee@madoka.its.rpi.edu (Scanner)
Subject: Re: Splitting an NIS domain across a router.
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:13:29 GMT

blu@uunet.uu.net!mercomp (Brian Utterback) writes:

>We are in the process of splitting our current network into two, a
>production network and a test network.  I don't know much about the
>workinfs of NIS, so bear with me if this is a stupid question, but
>how do I set up NIS under such a configuration?

The main question is do you want the NIS between these two different,
bridged by the router, to be the same NIS domain or not?

If so, you should follow the instructions int he Sun "Systems &
Network Administration" manual.

Have one NIS master, and have one NIS slave server on the other net.
Regardless, with NIS as it comes from Sun, you will need a NIS server
on each network because "ypbind" uses a broadcast to find its NIS servers.

Having one server be a NIS slave server insures that it will remain in
sync with your master server.

If you are going to have two different NIS domains, one for each network,
then you will need two masters.  How you keep data in sync between
these two domains can be done any number of ways. The simplest is to
make sure that the files that one uses the other is given also.

> Any one have a similar setup?

Out setup is a little similar.. we have many different subnets and 
a couple of NIS servers. One is the master, and the other NIS servers
are maintained via 'ypxfrd' to keep in sync.

We have a problem in that our clients are all over the place and we can
not afford enough servers to have one on each subnet, so we wrote our
own version of 'ypbind' that uses a file on local disk with a ranking
for groups of servers and domains instead of relying upon broadcast.

-- 
- You ever have one of those days where you just want to teleport in
- somewhere, destroy a couple of monsters, do some property damage,
- then teleport out?
** internet: scanner@rpi.edu	** bitnet:   userf0f3@rpitsmts.bitnet
From: alexis@panix.com (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: UUCP grades
Date: 2 Sep 92 05:58:05 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

czei@musclefish.com (Michael Czeiszperger) writes:
>I'm trying to set the UUCP grade so that during the day email is sent
>out and received, but netnews is ignored.  I've tried setting the
>grade to N, and it only transfers netnews, but will only dial if
>there is email to send.  If no-one has sent email offsite, it won't
>dial our next node to collect email that may be waiting for people.

>IS there a grade that will allow only email transfers, but won't
>bomb-out if there's no local email to send?

It's not a grades issue. You need to poll the site because (correctly,
according to your grades) there's no traffic for the other site.

To hand-poll, use uucico -ssite -r1 ...

To automate this, either write a script and cron it, or write a self-at-ing
script which dynamically decides when to next poll and gets started in
/etc/rc.local, or play with the Poll file (I think that's it in HDB, but
I always use one of the first two methods so I don't remember).

--
Alexis Rosen   Owner/Sysadmin,
PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC.
alexis@panix.com
{uupsi,cmcl2}!panix!alexis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Subject: Re: NIS, slave servers and DNS access
Organization: Computing Services, Warwick University, UK
	<1992Aug28.163833.28635@fwi.uva.nl>
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 14:48:01 GMT

In article <1992Aug28.163833.28635@fwi.uva.nl> casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S.
Dik) writes: 
>You can't prevent clients from binding to a server.

True, but you can talk to them nicely and ask them to use a different one.  I
routinely have

	/usr/etc/yp/ypset 127.1

after the ypbind in /etc/rc.local, to save queries going over the network.
You need to use the `-ypsetme' option on ypbind, which shouts a bit about
being insecure.  (Just how insecure is this ?  It seems to me that since
ypbind will only accept ypset requests from root, and will only bind to a
server running as root, this doesn't decrease security much, if at all.)

>Disable passwords:
>
>+:*:0:0:::
>
>But better is a different login shell (.rhosts and all that):
>
>+::0:0:::/etc/nologin

I always use

+:*:10:10:::/bin/false

the 10's are there out of paranoia, I can envisage some nasty accidents using
`0'. 

Cheers,

Rob
-- 
UUCP:   ...!mcsun!uknet!warwick!cudcv	PHONE:  +44 203 523037
JANET:  cudcv@uk.ac.warwick             INET:   cudcv@warwick.ac.uk
Rob McMahon, Computing Services, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, England
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: thorsen@stc.nato.int (Einar C. Thorsen)
Subject: Re: Impossible to use CD-ROM with PC filesystem on Sun?
Keywords: CD-ROM,pcfs,hsfs
Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:38:12 GMT

>>We are trying to read a CD-ROM that has a PC filesystem on it using
>>mount -rt pcfs /dev/sr0 /pcfs
>>but it seems like SunOS doesn't like it.

>>Has somebody got any suggestions?

>I got a few replies suggesting the CD-ROM has a High Sierra file system;
>    mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /hsfs
>and SunOS (4.1.1) now mounts the CD-ROM happily, BUT...
>my directory /hsfs has suddenly become a data file with 202 bytes !!!

>Where do I go from here?

Again I got a few replies, and the solution in SunOS 4.1.1 is to implement:

   Patch-ID# 100217-01
   Synopsis: mounting certain iso 9660 cd's succeed but directory becomes data
   Date: 04/Feb/91  
   BugID's fixed with this patch:1047295 

Another solution is to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.2.

Thanks again,

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Einar C. Thorsen                        Phone   : + 31 70 314 22 79
Shape Technical Centre                  Fax     : + 31 70 314 21 11
P.O. Box 174                            Internet: thorsen@stc.nl
2501 CD The Hague, The Netherlands      UUCP    : ...!hp4nl!shapetc!thorsen
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Mounting 4.1.2 filesystem on 4.1.1 system
Date: 2 Sep 92 19:50:10 GMT
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <51182@seismo.CSS.GOV> peteg@seismo.CSS.GOV (Pete Geenhuizen) writes:
>In article <2AA2A4F0.14824@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>>
>>We have a situation here that necessitates mounting a 4.1.2 filesystem
>>under SunOS 4.1.1.  Does anyone know of any problems in doing that?
>>
>No problem, I'm automounting 4.1.2 filesystems to several machines running
>4.1.1, and vice a versa.

I think what Mike meant was taking a disk with a filesystem created under
4.1.2, attaching it to a 4.1.1 Sun and mounting said filesystem there. There 
were some changes at 4.1.2, which I believe were in support of being able to
determine that the filesystem is "stable". But I think it was just using some
formerly unused bits in some already-reserved space, and most likely 4.1.1 
simply won't pay any attention to them.

If the release notes don't go out of their way to say that it won't work,
you're probably OK. The best way to check might be to mount the filesystem 
read-only the first time and see if anything complains.

Alternatively, is there any reason why you couldn't simply mount it through
NFS from the 4.1.2 system it's presumably on now?
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Subject: Re: DNS-no-NIS.FAQ
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 01:11:07 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.070915.11584@intellection.com> emcguire@mama3.intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
>In article <c_12Hk6s19@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>
>   No this is exactly what you can do.  In fact that's what I do here.
>
>   darwin:~>grep localhost /var/domain/pop.psu
>   localhost	in	a	127.1
>
>Why put "localhost" in a local domain?  

Because I am only authoratative for my local domain.  (see again the
philosophical discussions I mentioned previously?)  Now, since every
single system I've ever heard of uses "127.0.0.1" to mean "localhost"
and vice versa, it doesn't matter too much, but technically you should
only have records in your database for which you are authoratative,
excluding cache of course.
(I say that with my fingers crossed behind my back... :-/  )

>And why 127.1 instead of 127.0.0.1?

Cause it _is_ 127.0.0.1.  :-)  A little DNS trick I picked up.

darwin:~>grep localhost /var/domain/pop.psu
localhost	in	a	127.1
darwin:~>dig any localhost @localhost
; <<>> DiG 2.0 <<>> any localhost @localhost 
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY , status: NOERROR, id: 10
;; flags: qr aa rd ra ; Ques: 1, Ans: 1, Auth: 0, Addit: 0
;; QUESTIONS: 
;;	localhost.pop.psu.edu, type = ANY, class = IN

;; ANSWERS:
localhost.pop.psu.edu.	86400	A	127.0.0.1

;; Sent 1 pkts, answer found in time: 0 msec 
;; FROM: darwin to SERVER: localhost  127.0.0.1
;; WHEN: Tue Aug 25 21:00:24 1992
;; MSG SIZE  sent: 39  rcvd: 55

--Dave
-- 
System Administrator, Population Research Institute    barr@pop.psu.edu
Emacs is a fine operating system, but I still prefer UNIX. - Tom Christiansen
From: d0bpl@dtek.chalmers.se (Patrik Larsson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Automatic dump 0 backup, need help!
Date: 27 Aug 92 08:17:18 GMT
Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg Sweden

I am doing an automatic backup every night. This is an icremental backup
with dump 9. Every friday I do a complete backup (dump 0). To do this I
need to set the SUN in single-user mode. Today I do this manually.

The question is: how do I tell cron to

   1, enter single-user mode
   2, make several dump 0's
   3, reenter multiuser-mode and start up everything


Any help is appriciated!

   // Patrik

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
Subject: Screen shots to TIFF, GIF, PCX?
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 02:43:18 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I want to be able to grab a bunch of screen shots of windows
in OpenWindows v3.  I know of this nice Sun supplied utility called
snapshot - the only problem is that snapshot only saves window images
in Sun rasterfile or postscript forms.  I would like to be able to view these
screen shots on a VGA compatible PC.  Which means that either I find
a Sun raster file viewer for a PC (unlikely) or find converters which take
Sun raster files and convert them into GIF, TIFF or PCX formats.
Alternatively, if there existed another screen snapshot program for
the Sun that produced GIF, TIFF or PCX...

Anyone know of such converters or viewing programs?
-- 

Phil Trubey                   | Internet: ptrubey@netcom.com
Systemhouse Inc.              | Voice:    613-834-6919
                              | Fax:      613-236-2043
From: rrg@rtp (Rhonda Gaines)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Looking for a commercial callback security program for SunOS 4.x
Date: 28 Aug 92 18:12:24 GMT
Organization: FiberCom, Inc., Roanoke, Virginia


We currently have a hacked public domain modem callback program
running on our Sun 3/160 SunOS 3.5.  We need to either hack this
program again (differences in the I/O controls between 3.x and 4.x)
or purchase a commercial callback program.  Is anyone using such an
animal or know who may sell it?  Basically we need to allow
selective dialin access to our machine.  Some callins should be
allowed to go straight through and others need to use the security
and have the modem call them back.  Any help would be greatly
appreciated.

 -rhonda

Reply-To address is:  rrg@fibercom.com or gaines@fibercom.com *not*
                      rrg@rtp

-- 
Rhonda Gaines              INTERNET: gaines@fibercom.com
FiberCom, Inc.             UUCP: ...!uunet!fibercom!gaines   
P.O. Box 11966             PHONE: 703-342-6700 or 800-423-1183 x291
Roanoke, VA  24022-1966    FAX:   703-342-5961
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6057 comp.unix.admin:4840
From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: NIS, slave servers and DNS access
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:27:16 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <1992Sep1.001928.17876@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
>Disabling an account by putting some string, such as an asterisk, in the 
>password field *does not work* if the user is coming in with rsh or rlogin 
>from a trusted host (i.e. one listed in /etc/hosts or the user's .rhosts).
>In this case, the password field is simply not looked at, period. If the
>user can get onto some other system, say, their private workstation, they
>can log onto any other system so long as their account name exists and their
>hostname is in /etc/hosts.equiv (or in their own .rhosts file - which may be
>provided to them by the server).

Since SVR4 defines the "!" characters as the "account locked" character,
one would hope that this statement isn't true for SVR4.

BSD systems do not provide an "account locking" mechanism, so it is quite
likely that no one ever thought to see if the account was "locked".
-- 
John F. Haugh II                   | "The US Government has the Midas Muffler
Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151            |  touch: everything they touch turns to
UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh |  shit."
Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org      |                  -- Jay Maynard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: truher@s1.gov (Joel Truher)
Subject: Bigger HD in shoebox?
Organization: LLNL
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 05:07:59 GMT

Hello sun worshipers

My Stand-alone 3/50 (used) includes

4 MB RAM
Micropolis 70MB HD (Adaptec 4042 SCSI interface card)
Wangtek QIC-24 tape (Emulex SCSI interface card)

How can I fit a big (500MB) disk into the shoe box?
The Adaptec has two small card edge connectors and one
large one, just like an IBM; can I use a PC-compatible
bare drive and just _format_ it?

What is the best way to increase system RAM?

Joel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ch@alcatel.co.at (Christian Hnilica)
Subject: Re: 4.1.2 "esp0" messages
Reply-To: ch@alcatel.co.at
Organization: ALCATEL Austria AG
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 06:05:17 GMT

This is a known Bug. Apply the "esp Patch" (PatchID 100484-01).

regards
---
Christian Hnilica			ALCATEL Austria AG
Systemmanager				Scheydgase 41, A-1210 Wien
Christian.Hnilica@alcatel.co.at		Tel: +43 1 27722 2795
					FAX: +43 1 27722 100

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mah@meaddata.com (Michael Henderson)
Subject: /etc/ttytab
Keywords: secure
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 15:14:37 GMT
Reply-To: mah@meaddata.com

When I remove the secure entry from the console line in the ttytab file, or 
change secure to insecure, the workstation requires a password when
booting single user. This is what I want it to do, but this also causes
root logins on the console not to be allowed. Is there a way to have a
password required upon a single user boot, but still allow root login 
on the console when up muli-user? I have left the secure option on for 
the ptys so root can login remotely once up multi-user.

Thanks for any input.


---
|Michael Henderson   |  			   |      (513) 865-5725   
|Mead Data Central   |  			   |Engineering Productivity
|P.O. Box 933        |                             |     mah@meaddata.com
|Dayton, Ohio  45401 |        		           |  ...!uunet!meaddata!mah
From: john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help!  Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Date: 27 Aug 92 18:28:19 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astro, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

I have a tar tape which was written on a Silicon Graphics system.  I need
to untar it on my Sparc 2.  When I try just a normal tar, I get a directory
checksum error.  I have seen this problem before.  It has to do with SGI
writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.  When
I last ran into this error, someone a bit more knowledgeable in UNIX than
I ran tar through a filter to unscramble the byte order.  I have no idea
what utility he used however.  If anyone knows the magic words that I
need to execute to read this tar tape, I would greatly appreciate the
help!

John
-- 
Dr. John K. Prentice                      
Partner, Quetzal Computational Associates    
3200 Carlisle N.E., Albuquerque, NM   87110-1664; 505-889-4543
john@aquarius.unm.edu -or- jkprent@cs.sandia.gov -or- prentice@rufous.cs.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: NIS, slave servers and DNS access
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 21:27:37 GMT

In article <92241.144541QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK> QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew) writes:
>2) Can I take the password maps and somehow disable the passwords so that I
>   have a list of usernames but they cannot logon to the mail hub.

First put in all the people you *want* to have access:

   +usera::::::
   +userb::::::

Then make the last line look like this:

   +::::::/bin/false

(or, to be friendlier, make the shell some one-line script which does something
like "/bin/echo  Sorry, you are not authorized to use this machine.")
-- 
Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin