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From: etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao)
Subject: Re: Disk Partitioning
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 21:49:18 GMT

In article <245@ftms.UUCP> brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
>In article <1992Jul17.182425.117776@zeus.calpoly.edu> etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao) writes:
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>Repartitioning should be done in this order:
>
>1. Backup all data on the partition to be resized
>2. Unmount the partition to be resized.
>3. Run "format" to repartion the drive, using the partition menu options.
>4. Save the new partition using the format's "label" command.
>5. Run newfs on the resized and/or new partitions.
>6. Change /etc/fstab to reflect any new partitions.
>7. Mount the partition(s).
>8. Restore the data.
>
>From your posting, it appears that you never did a backup or newfs.
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As my earlier followup says, I was actually looking for a way to "grow" the
fs into the partition without having to backup/newfs/restore because this
deals with the root and /usr partitions.  I was hoping to avoid having to boot
miniroot etc...  As for backups, I did an rdump both before I repartitioned
and before I booted miniroot.  Unfortunately, I forgot that I needed to move
the tape drive to the machine in question inorder to restore :-j.  Everything,
is working fine now but I would still like to know if it is possible to 
"resize" a filesystem.

			- E.T.

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From: akonstam@alex (aaron konstam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun
Subject: How to fix bad blocks?
Keywords: disk blocks, format
Date: 28 Jul 92 18:13:58 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Trinity University, San Antonio TX. USA

Several weeks ago I tried to repair a block on my disk without
having to format the disk and reload the software.
I used  the repair option of the format command. 
But lo and behold the same block keeps failing again. This leaves me
with the following questions:
1. What does repair actually do?
2. After you repair do you have as a separate operation
   add the block to the defect list using the defect option
   of format?
3. The defective block is in the root partition and it must be
   in a program that is used often enough to cause frequent 
   failure. What will happen to that program if I add the block to 
   the defect list. 
4. Is there a way to tell what program includes that block?


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Trinity University , San Antonio, TX 78212
email: akonstam@trinity.edu
From: egb@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com (Evan G. Bullock-Morales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help Desk Automation System
Keywords: Help-Desk Automation
Date: 23 Jul 92 21:21:11 GMT
Organization: Chevron Information Technology Company


-- 

Is anyone familiar with a help desk automation system from a company
called Remedy.  I think the product is called something like Automated
Problem Tracking System (APTS).  I'd appreciate your opinion of this
package, and who I can contact to get more information.  Thanks in advance.

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Chevron Information Technology Co.
Research Support Division
P. O. Box 446
La Habra, CA 90633-0446                
email: egb@chevron.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mjr@uther.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney)
Subject: Re: Kernel Config -- Whats the deal with MAXUSERS?
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:07:16 GMT

halvard@trd.sdata.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:

>from the 4.1.2 release manuals - chapter 8.3 :

>maximum MAXUSERS values :

>arch	mem<64mb	128mb		640mb		2.5gb

>sun4	225		225		NA		NA
>sun4c	225		225		NA		NA
>sun4m	185		180		155		45

This chart has puzzled me ever since we got our 4/670.  Why does
MAXUSERS have to be lower if you have more memory available?
--
Matt Ranney -  mjr@uther.calvin.edu
  "You know, I don't think theres a man, woman, or child alive today
   who doesn't enjoy a lovely beverage."  -DL
From: fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Custom ethernet mediums
Keywords: ethernet, fiberoptics
Date: 22 Jul 92 22:27:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.1992Jul22.222716.84612
Reply-To: fitz@frc2.frc.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University

One of our robotics projects has special requirements for data transmission
over a tether between a transporter and a walking robot.  Issues of power,
size, weight are severe.  What was decided was to multiplex signals over
a pair of fibers at various freqs.  Everything seems to work okay, but actual ethernet
communications between the Sun(s) on the walking robot and the Sun(s) on
the transporter are having a bit of trouble.  It seems that when the Sun
transmits a packet that the receive buffer is filled with that packet - this
is something we cannot easily do with our system (one fiber dedicated to 
transmit and one fiber dedicated to receive).  What happens is that the
data is sent and it is correct, but the Sun decides that an error occurred
because nothing was written into its receive buffer immediately.  We know
the packets are okay, because the remote systems (one is a real-time system
which eventually boots from files transferred from the transporter)
can function (the effective baud rate is around 400....really bad).

Does anyone know how we can disable the Sun from checking its receive buffer
to read back what it just sent?  Our only other alternative is to use PPP
or SLIP, but we would prefer not to do this for various reasons.  Any
insights or assistance is appreciated because our timeframe is very, very
tight.

Thanks,
Kerien Fitzpatrick



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Kerien Fitzpatrick			Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Field Robotics Center			(412)268-6564
The Robotics Institute			Internet: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
Carnegie Mellon University
From: m9z@ORNL.GOV (Montgomery M C)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: problem booting diskless Sun 3/50
Date: 31 Jul 92 13:59:19 GMT
Reply-To: m9z@ORNL.GOV (Montgomery M C)
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory

We have been having problems getting a diskless Sun 3/50 to boot from
a Sun 3/260 both of which are running SunOS 4.0.3.  The client has the
server's and its own IP address and appears to download the boot.sun3
file.  Then we get the following error messages:

        Boot: RPC call failed (status 7)
        Boot: bad dialog with bootparam server (error 0x07)
        Boot: unable to mount root (error 0x07)
        root on  fstype
        Boot:

We are not running DNS or NIS.  We have tried both long and short
names for the server and client in the /etc/ethers, /etc/bootparams,
/etc/hosts, and /etc/exports files.  Any ideas?

Mike

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From: jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: dump verify (v option)
Keywords: dump backup verify
Date: 30 Jul 92 23:18:16 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

I believe I'm on to a problem with the verify flag on dump.  (Yes, I
know I can't verify / or /var; it's something different.)

When we try adding 'v' to our dump options the following seems to
happen.  The tape writes, verify begins and (like write has previously
done) reports a certain percentage complete.  We finally get a message 
like "Verify 98% completed...finished in 1 minute" (or some such).  At 
this point the tape keeps moving and we don't get a prompt for a long
time (up to a couple of hours sometimes).

Occassionally the prompt comes back with no error (especially on the
1/4" cartridge device) but often we get an error like "st1: unit busy
too long" (especially on the exabyte device).  This morning the screen
was filled with "Do you want to rewrite? (Y or N)".

Is there something wrong with verify ('v' option to dump) or some
trick to making it run to completion properly.  Is it simply that it
forces itself to read to the full extent of those silly numbers we
give dump and reading blank tape for a long time causes occassional
errors?

Anyone else using verify?  (It seems like a good idea on unattended backups
which can fit on one tape.)
-- 
	John Campbell               jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu
                                    CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson)
Subject: NFS mounted swap
Summary: What exactly is happening when you NFS mount a swap file?
Keywords: nfs swap mounts
Organization: Lysator Academic Computer Club, Linkoping University, Sweden
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 12:32:17 GMT

Anyone know what a Sun (running SunOS 4.1.1) really does when it NFS mounts
it's swap partition?

I tried to hook up a Sun 3/80 so that it would boot from a poor little
Sun 2/120 (with an Intel "ie" ethernet interface) but when it comes down
to NFS-mounting it's root and swap partitions everythings stops. My guess
is that the Sun 2 (and it's ethernet interface) is too slow to be able to
handle the packets transmitted from the 3/80's LANCE ethernet chip.

(We normally have the 3/80 hooked up to a Sun 4/380, but currently the
Sun 4/380 is sitting in another build and can't be reached directly
(there is a poor little PC which not can't handle the large NFS pakets
either on the "network" path to it)).

So I thought.. Why not try to use the HP 9000 Series 300 we have here
(running HP-UX 8.0) for the root and swap partitions. (It has NFS).

However, it seems SunOS does something strange when NFS-mounting
(and normally exporting) swap partitions... One exports (in /etc/exports)
a file and then the Sun client mounts this file and then does some operations
on it. It doesn't seem possible to NFS-export a file under HP-UX, only
directories. So my mind begun to wonder.... 

How does the Sun client really do it? 

Another question: Is it possible to reduce the size of the NFS packets
transmitted for the root and swap partitions? I guess one has to fiddle in
the kernel since they are mounted before it starts running. But where?

/Peter


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Lysator Academic Computer Society                 ...!uunet!lysator.liu.se!pen
University of Linkoping, Sweden                           I'm bored. Flame me.
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From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 - Dump parameters
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:03:46 GMT

In article <1992Jul23.165508.7573@ugle.unit.no> halvard@trd.sdata.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:
>
>yeah - and try a tape that is not used on a 8200 ;-)

The tape's history is irrelevant, if you begin writing at the beginning
of the tape:  if you start at PEOT, data density is chosen by device
file only (i.e. /dev/rst1 == 8200, /dev/rst8 == 8500).  If you are
appending data to a tape, then the EXB-8500 will automatically write in
the format previously used.

pww

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ctan@solomon.technet.sg (Tan Chee Weei)
Subject: Rebooting SLC running Solaris 2 beta
Organization: National University of Singapore
Distribution: all
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:58:36 GMT

Has anyone ever had problems with rebooting an SLC running Solaris 2?
What happens at out site is that when the machine reboots either
using reboot or halting it and booting from the prom monitor, the
rotating slash signifying that the OS (or boot info) is being loaded
spins for a while than freezes and the screen goes blank (black).
Nothing short of turning the SLC off than on again would get any response.
(Not eve L1-A). The SLC is set not to autoboot on startup (which shouldn't
be a problem I think). Attached to the SLC is a 1.3Gb drive and a cdrom
player. (The cdrom is usually not turned on.  The problem occurs whether
it is on or off, mounted or not).  Any suggestions?
Thanks

CW





Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.wizards
From: pac@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu (Michael Packer)
Subject: No bootparam server responding problem
Organization: Radford University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 14:03:01 GMT


	something has happened and all of a sudden all of our Sparc's
will not boot (most of them have been powered off for the summer) and
they have just been turned back on.  They get their IP number when
booting then right after that they keep saying 

No bootparam server responding; trying again
No bootparam server responding; trying again
No bootparam server responding; trying again


they are trying to but off of the server running sunos 4.1.1

has anyone seen this before and offer ANY adivce?  we have replaced
the /etc directory with one from before when the machines would boot
thinking it might have been a problem with something in that
directory...but that didn't solve the problem

please email any advice to pac@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu

and...THANKS!

pac
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From: di@athena.mit.edu (David Israel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SS2 crashes about half the time when Sparcprinter is used
Summary: "Panic - memory fault" ends random print jobs
Keywords: SparcStation SunOs 4.1.2 SparcPrinter NeWsPrint 2.0 CRASH
Date: 31 Jul 92 02:36:30 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology


I have a SparcStation-2 running SunOs 4.1.2 with the standard SparcPrinter
setup.  The SparcPrinter is running NeWSprint version 2.  The system is
configured with 64Mb RAM, 128 Mb swap-space, and is running OW 2.
The kernel is basically the "GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO" kernel, with the
2nd scsi disk commented out, maxusers=8, and the following options turned
on: QUOTA, TMPFS, IPCMESSAGE, IPCSEMAPHORE, IPCSHMEM.

The whole thing chugs along happily unless the printer is used.
A job sent to the printer might be printed fine, but about half the time,
it will stop in the middle because the entire system has crashed.  On the
couple of occasions that I've seen the console error messages they have
included "Panic - memory fault", but more often than not, the screen will
have been "screenblank"ed (there's usually no one sitting at the console),
so I've only seen this a couple of times.  After the crash, the system
usually does NOT respond to L1-A, and I have to cycle the power to revive it.

My memory is unclear on whether these problems have only started since the
kernel was reconfigured as above, or whether they existed when I was using
the "GENERIC_SMALL-ASYNCHIO" kernel, since it took some time to
realize that the crashes were triggered by printing.  I also have an
older SS-2 running 4.1.1b and NeWsPrint 1, and have never had similar
problems.  Anybody have a clue?  Thanks.


David A. Israel (di@nexus.mgh.harvard.edu, di@hstbme.mit.edu)

Please do NOT reply to di@athena.mit.edu, it won't reach me.
From: beaker@milton.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Problems with sendmail.mx and sendmail.cf
Date: 25 Jul 92 10:11:12 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle


I've had nothing but problems with sendmail.mx!  If there are
any sendmail gurus out there, I'd love to hear from them.

I have two Sparc 2 machines running SunOS 4.1.2.  One is 
the NIS server and the other is the client.

I also have one Sparc mounting its /usr/spool/mail to the
NIS server to keep mail on all machines the same.  More hosts
will be added soon.

These two (for now) make up by NIS domain.  I am also within the
subdomain called ee.washington.edu.  There are more than one
NIS (YP) domains in this subdomain.

I was confused about which *.cf file to install (either the
subsidiary or main) so I installed the subsidiary.  I followed
by example from other machines in my department.  Also, since
ee.washington.edu is a nameserver and main mail machine, I 
thought that this was the most appropriate.

Anyway, everything seemed to work fine, but after making some
changes to the sendmail.cf file I noticed that it was tacking
on my NIS domainname at the end of the email address (in the
header) and this was causing excessive bouncing between my
machines and the nameserver.  Someone was kind enough to tell
me that this notation was very wrong.  Not only that, but it was starting
NOT to recognize regular users of the machines.

All I changed in the .cf file was:

DRedison.ee.washington.edu
CRedison.ee.washington.edu

because edison (ee.washington.edu) is the main mail host for
our subdomain.

Anyway, I got sick of screwing around with this sendmail.cf file
and went to a ftp site and got another file which I thought might
work better from our Computing and Communications group.  I won't
include my new sendmail.cf file unless some ambitious person mails
me.

The new *.cf file fixed my NIS domain problem, but now I have a
new one and no debugging features seem to help this one.

When I mail between the two local machines, I get a bounce back
saying 550 (or 554) Internal error... with no explanation of what
the error was.  I even ran sendmail with the -v option, but it didn't
say anything nasty.  The mail gets sent, but bounces after it gets 
there.

Note:  I CAN send between the two machines if I use the FULLY QUALIFIED
       HOSTNAME.  I do not need to use the fully qualified hostname
       to send out of my subdomain or NIS domain.

As you may know, *.cf files are a pain in the butt to construct so if
someone can help me fix the Sun one, that'd be great.  Otherwise, maybe
if a UW person also has a file similar to mine on a Sun, they could help
me figure out this new file.

Thanks in advance.


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olsenc@maxwell.ee.washington.edu

Computers are like boats:  They are an endless pit to throw money into.
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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: software patents (was: AT&T vs. BSDI --> 4.3BSD-NET2 distribution ...)
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 17:09:21 GMT

Roger> == Roger Marquis <marquis@well.sf.ca.us> 

 Roger> [...] Clearly the present laws, as they apply to software, need
 Roger> to be brought up to date.  But any intelligent person could see
 Roger> that there would be no incentive to develop software if anyone
 Roger> else could simply copy your code, unique idea, whatever and
 Roger> distribute it themselves. [...]

You are conflating patent and copyright rather too much here.  I don't
think anyone here is arguing against the standard meaning of copyright
for a computer program, and your implication that Joe is is rather a
strawman argument.

Patents are a separate issue.  The main problem with the patent system
as applied to software is that it makes no allowance for independent
invention.  If, say, a new fabric-weaving technique is developed, then,
generally, only the fabric-weaving industry needs to do a patent search
to find it (and it's therefore practical to find and license).  However,
if a programming technique (host-independent byte ordering, for example)
is developed for a networked file system, it might also apply to the
design of a parallel printer port, or a multilingual keyboard controller.

This problem is *exacerbated* by the number of trivial patents (XOR
cursor?  I invented that when I was 12... oh no, I'm a patent thief!).
--
Christopher Davis * ckd@eff.org * System Administrator, EFF * +1 617 864 0665
   ``The First Amendment is often inconvenient.  But that is besides the
  point.  Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation
         to tolerate speech.'' --Justice Anthony Kennedy, in 91-155
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How to use loopback mount on 4.1.2?
Date: 29 Jul 92 17:53:56 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>>Now in Solaris 2.0 /usr/etc is gone...
>
>Where did it go?

"/usr/sbin".  I first discovered that on a BSDI/386 system, and found it
a bit annoying (and made a "/usr/etc" symlink to compensate).

Somebody claimed that AT&T also adopted "/usr/sbin" (and Sun presumably
picked it up from them); I figure that if AT&T and Berkeley (and
possibly OSF) agree on it, I'm probably stuck with it....
From: beaker@milton.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Found solution to sendmail problem
Date: 27 Jul 92 23:39:16 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

Hello:

Thank you for all of your responses.  I now have about 7
different sendmail.cf files to use, but I've managed to get
my Suns to work with the original config file.  Here's a
summary of what I found out:

If you have the support, I'd suggest that you use another
sendmail.cf file because Sun's is apparently junk.  At least
that's what a lot of you told me.  I agree.

Anyway, to use a sendmail.cf (/usr/lib/sendmail.subsidiary.cf)
you copy it to sendmail.cf in /etc.  I did do that right.

If your NIS domain is DIFFERENT from you DNS domain, you must
do the following:

Define a macro and a class like this:

Dmyourdnsdomain
Cmyourdnsdomain

This is documented in the sendmail.cf file near the top.  This will
keep your address straight from your NIS domain.  I don't know why
you'd expect them to be the same, because everyone always tells me
NIS and DNS have NOTHING IN COMMON!  It would make sense to me to make
a distinguishment between the two by naming them differently.

If you are using sendmail.mx (which you should, esp. if you want to
be able to mail sites that are MX records in your main mail machine),
then you need to edit one line of your file:

Find the line that has "Your official hostname."
It will say:

Dj$w.$m

Remove the ".$m" and it should read "Dj$w".

That will keep you fully qualified hostname from repeating all of
the trailing stuff twice.

-Clint
From: michael@spike.uk.sun.com (Michael Wookey - Sun UK - Tech Support)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Hints requested on setting up XDM
Date: 29 Jul 92 12:01:33 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: michael@spike.uk.sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.156.155.13

Not quite sure from your somewhat unclear description of what you want, however if you
install Openwindows Version 3 on Sun things will be much easier for you as OW v3 has
some xdm config files already nicely setup for you to expand - OW v2 doesn't

Hope it helps!


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