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From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: writing down root password
Date: 20 Nov 1992 03:38:22 GMT
Organization: The University of Western Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

carl@montebello.ecom.unimelb.EDU.AU (Carl Brewer) writes:

>In article <1ehftbINN5bc@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division) writes:

>how could you break a VAX?  A sledge hammer ?

The CPU on it has finally gone.  Maybe I'll give it a try :-)

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

Does the NSA (or any intelligence agency for that matter) fall into the
category of "reasonable"?  Because I bet they've got rooms of these things.

Craig
--
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  University of Western Australia    Dept of Education (afternoon)
craig@ecel.uwa.edu.au Dvorak Keyboards RULE!  "Messes are only acceptable
if users make them.  Applications aren't allowed this freedom" I.M.VI 2-4
From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Apple LW-IIg and sun-transcript
Date: 19 Nov 92 20:12:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Nov19.201259.4334
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

In article 1ee593INNieu@life.ai.mit.edu, bruce@maypo.ai.mit.edu (Bruce Walton) writes:
>
>Hello,
>
>I'm having trouble installing an Apple LaserWriter IIg printer using
>sun's transcript spooling software.

Welcome to the club of frustrated IIg owners.

>I'm confused about the compatability of this new model LaserWriter
>IIg.  It was purchased as a replacement for an old LWII-NTX, which has
>always worked just fine at 38400-baud using our (very ancient)
>sun-transcript software.  

At least I'm not using transcript!!

I, too, bought the IIg because I was very happy with the NTX.  I had some
frustrations with it, beginning with the serial port configurations.  I
finally gave up and set the thing for config #2, which at least gives
me 19200 baud.

>
>OK, so we suppose that 19200-baud is the best we can do for now,
>and proceed to set up the printer.
>
>Second problem: Postscript files spooled to the printer produce an
>error message "WARNING: Check spooled PostScript for control
>characters" (and sometimes "printer out of sync").  This, even though
>the postscript seems to print OK.  In looking at the code for
>sun-transcript's "pscomm" filter, it seems that this error is
>generated when the process sees control codes sent back from the
>printer before the job has finished printing.
>

Without transcript, I was able to print PostScript pretty well once I
got done cursing the Apple gods who made this sucker so simple, a moron
could set it up (of course, if you're not a moron, you're stuck :-).

It turned out that the one application that would *not* print to the IIg
was Liken.  This is really ironic, since Liken is the Mac emulator that
*requires* a LaserWriter for its output!  Anyway, after a discussion with
an XSI tech, I got the following fix.  It's a shell script which strips
out extraneous gar-bage that the IIg was choking on.  Since I was also
getting some errors with output generated by 'asc2ps' (an ASCII->PS program),
I tried running those through the script and haven't had a problem yet.
Here's the script:

#!/bin/csh
sed -e "/^ok/,/^%%/d" $1 | lpr -Plw
rm -f $1

I called it lp_lw, and i call it instead of "lpr -Plw".  Hope this helps!

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From: dax@foehn.enst.fr (Philippe Dax)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Openwin2 under SunOS4.1.3 - SS10
Keywords: openwin2.0, xnews server, SunOS4.1.3
Date: 16 Nov 92 16:04:22 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Telecom-Paris, France


Hi openwin gurus,

We are running both openwin3.0 and 2.0 under SunOs4.1.3 on a SS10.
Each one resides in a separate directory.

Why do we run openwin2.0 ? 
Because Adavision doesn't work under openwin3.0 :-( !

When I launch openwin2.0 it says the following :

| Process: 0x1edd20 (Unmnamed process)   Error: undefined
| Stack: (NeWS/interest.ps) marker /BasicKeyDicts marker
| Executing: ascii000
| At:  {*ascii000 ascii0S0 ...... asciiC00}
| In: Reading file('NeWS/interest.ps',R)
| Sic transit gloria PostScript
| /usr/openwin-2.0/bin/xinit:   Connection refused (errno 61):  unexpected signal 2

What is wrong ?

Any hints will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Philippe Dax
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pat@news.gsfc.nasa.gov (patrick m. ryan)
Subject: NIS and /etc/shells
Summary: can i?
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 20:44:24 GMT


We've just taken the plunge into NIS on our SPARC 10.  We
have several non-standard shells on our system (bash, tcsh)
and we would like to put /etc/shells under NIS control.
Is this possible?

thanks,
pat

--
"I have a cunning plan." -- Baldric
                                                             patrick m. ryan
     nasa / goddard space flight center / oceans and ice branch / hughes stx
                     pat@jaameri.gsfc.nasa.gov / zmpmr@charney.gsfc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pdg@cs.uow.edu.au (Peter Gray)
Subject: fast restores
Summary: turning on delayed I/O
Keywords: restore, speedup
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University, Australia
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:37:12 GMT


Below is a program I wrote to turn on delayed
I/O while doing restores. It improves the speed
of restores by about 500% on my machines.

I also use it for /tmp rather than running tmpfs.

Let me know if you find any bugs.
I have only tried this on SUN's running 4.1.2.
It will work under Solaris 2 I think but
the name of the ioctl has changed slightly.

Does anybody know of any reason why you should
not do this???


pdg

Peter Gray                    Internet: pdg@cs.uow.EDU.AU
Professional Officer          UUCP:     ...!munnari!cs.uow.EDU.AU!pdg  
Dept of Computer Science      MHSnet:   pdg@cs.uow.oz.au
University of Wollongong      Phone: +61 42 213770                       
N.S.W.  2500  Australia       Fax :  +61 42 213262                       



/* 
 * This programs turns on/off delayed I/O on a filesystem.
 * 
 * Usage:	fastfs filesystem fast|slow|status
 *
 * Note that it is intended for use with restore(8)
 * to speed up full filesystem restores. Remember
 * that if a filesystem is running with delayed I/O
 * enabled when the system crashes it can result in
 * fsck being unable to "fix" the filesystem on reboot
 * without manual intervention.
 *
 * Typical use is
 *
 * fastfs /home	fast
 * cd /home; restore rf /dev/rst5
 * fastfs /home slow
 *
 * The above gives about a 500% increase in the speed of
 * the restore (your milage may vary).
 *
 * Its also good for /tmp giving most of the benifits of tmpfs
 * without the problems.
 *
 * In rc.local
 *
 * fastfs /tmp fast
 *
 * but you may need to add fsck -y /tmp into /etc/rc.boot
 * before the real fsck to ensure the machine always boots
 * (I have not done this yet).
*/

#include <stdio.h> 
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <errno.h>

extern char	*sys_errlist[];


int
main(argc, argv)
int	argc;
char	**argv;
{
	int	fd;
	int	flag;
	
	if (geteuid() != 0)
	{
		fprintf(stderr,"%s: Must run as root.\n", argv[0]);
		exit(1);
	}

	if (argc != 3)
	{
		fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s path {fast|slow|status}\n",argv[0]);
		exit(2);
	}
	
	if ((fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY)) < 0)
	{
		fprintf(stderr,"%s: Unable to open \"%s\"\n%s\n", argv[0], argv[1], sys_errlist[errno]);
		exit(3);
	}
	
	if (!strcasecmp(argv[2], "status"))
	{
		if (ioctl(fd, FIODIOS, &flag) != 0)
		{
			fprintf(stderr,"%s: ioctl failed%s\n", argv[0], sys_errlist[errno]);
			exit(4);
		}
		if (flag == 0) printf("%s is slow.\n", argv[1]);
		else printf("%s is fast\n", argv[1]);
		exit(0);
	}
	
	flag = (strcasecmp(argv[2], "fast") == 0) ? 1 : 0;
	
	if (ioctl(fd, FIODIO, &flag) != 0)
	{
		fprintf(stderr,"%s: ioctl failed\n%s\n", argv[0], sys_errlist[errno]);
		exit(5);
	}
	
	printf("%s is now %s\n",argv[1], flag ? "fast" : "slow");
	exit(0);

}
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: mail problems - /etc/aliases
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:44:18 GMT


We have many large aliases in /etc/aliases, which are
defined using :include:file notation.

The problem that we find is that some of the users in the
"file" do not receive mail sent to the "alias-name".  Is
there a problem if the number of users in the "file"
exceeds a certain number ?  Surprisingly, the users who
do not receive these mails are almost the same each time,
though we are not very sure about this.

Any pointers/suggestions as to how to solve this problem
will be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.  (If possible, please send me e-mail)

Suresh Peram
--
Sincerely,
Suresh Peram.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: devs@netcom.com
Subject: Software development contracts for Devsoft
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 02:08:41 GMT



Devsoft Corporation is looking for software contracts in the following
areas:

1. Device drivers for Solaris 2.X and HP-UX platforms.
2. X-Windows/MOTIF/Open Windows GUI for applications.
3. Software projects in document imaging area.


Devsoft is presently porting device device drivers from SunOS4.X to
Solaris 2.1 for a major Sun VAR. Devsoft has more bandwidth to take up
other software development contracts in the areas listed above.

Devsoft Corporation is a value-added reseller of Sun Microsystems and
Hewlett-Packard. Devsoft has its own image scanning product called
XpertScan. Devsoft has also developed device drivers for optical disk
drivers and tape drives.

Here are the particulars about Devsoft:

        Devsoft Corporation
        1010 West Fremont Avenue
        Sunnyvale, CA 94087

        Phone: (408) 736-7650
        Fax  : (408) 736-7696
        Email: devs@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
Organization: Inland Sea
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 12:40:03 GMT

paulr@fulcrum.oz.au (Paul Rosham) writes:

>>I agree.  I'm losing a lot of trust in Sun, and have started looking
>>into other vendors.  Sun is getting into the habit of coming out with
>>something new and trying to force it's users into it.  I do not like
>>having my hand forced on an issue.

>I recall, when working for Sun _3 years_ ago, that
>	1. SunOS would migrate to a SVR4-based OS
>	2. All Sun workstations would be SPARC based
>	3. Sun would try to double price-performance every year or so

>>Given how quickly Sun dropped the Sun3 line (when there weren't many choices
>>in what workstations were out there) and how hard Sun is pushing Solaris
>>(because you already *have* all of these sparcstations, what choice do you
>>have as to which OS you run?)

>Are you not listening? Are Sun lying to you?

Lying?

Sun also told the world that they were committed to three lines -- 680X0,
386, and SPARC.

They told us they'd never abandon the techies.  Now the techies pay extra
for the C compiler they need, but get no discount if they don't want OW.
And I see now that display PostScript will be standard bundled.  Gotta 
pay for that, you techies.

They told us the migration would be done in 18 months, and old code would
continue to work.

They charge hefty licence fees for OS software upgraded, but I will bet
you $100.00 today that when non-Sun OSs come out for their workstations,
you will not be able to get $1 off of a workstation if you try to buy
it without the OS.

Lying?

Naw, they just change their mind based on what they think the market wants
and what they think they can get away with.
-- 
 "When Dexter's on the Internet, can Hell be far behind?"
		-- Steve Simmons, scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us
From: sam@john-bigboote.ics.uci.edu (Sam Horrocks)
Subject: Re: /sbin/init burns cpu time?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Keywords: Sun4/25 ELC SUNOS4.1.1B init
Date: 22 Nov 92 21:51:46 GMT

In <1eot3oINN5ac@coli-gate.coli.uni-sb.de> hfi@coli.uni-sb.de (Hannes Fischer) writes:

>Hi everyone,

>i'm having a bit of trouble with a 4/25 (ELC).
>After an uptime of about 8-10 hours, /sbin/init
>starts to accumulate CPU time almoust in 'realtime'.
>System utilization (vmstat) is at ~90%, with 0% idle
>time left. /sbin/init is at ~95% CPU utilization.
>There are usually some zombie processes lying around;
>also, the getty on ttya doesn't get respawned. Network
>services (rlogin, telnet, NFS) are still working. The
>only recourse is to reboot the machine.

>The machine has 24M RAM, 2*2G SCSI drives, running
>SunOS4.1.1B (slightly tuned GENERIC), and provides
>NFS service to 2 other SPARCs (don't ask why...),
>and AppleShare fileservice (via CAP) to ~10-15
>macintoshes.

>Is there a possible hardware failure that would explain
>this behavior? - I recently had to swap the system board,
>and I didn't have any problems until then (or at least didn't
>notice).

>Needless to say, any help will be greatly appreciated :)

Try doing a "trace -p 1".  You'll probably see that init is constantly
getting a SIGSEGV, recovering and then getting another SIGSEGV.  I've
seen this happen when making changes to ttytab and sending a SIGHUP to
init to get it to re-read the file.  Sometimes it'll pick up the
changes and sometimes it'll just start SIGSEGV'ing.

The only fix is to reboot.  If you can't do that, renice it +19 until
you can reboot.

Sam
--
Sam Horrocks
ICS Department, UC Irvine
Email: sam@ics.uci.edu
From: hdavies@rx.xerox.com (Hugh J.E. Davies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: writing down root password (was Re: Dis
Date: 19 Nov 92 11:31:05 GMT
Reply-To: hdavies@rx.xerox.com
Organization: Rank Xerox Ltd.

In article 24059@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM, larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com (Larisa Stephan) writes:
>peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis) wrote:
>> The trick is not in locking it away, the trick lies in putting it in an
>> obvious place, but making sure that no one knows its a password.  This
>> works really well for things like PINs, write them down as fphone numbers
>> and put them in your phone book.  Another trick is to add 1 to each digit,
>
>Peter is lucky Richard Feynman does not have an account on his system.

[stuff deleted]


>-- Larisa
>larisa@tcville.edsg.hac.com



Hardly. He's dead.


Regards,

Hugh.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: astoker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew Stoker)
Subject: Having problems adding new disc - URGENT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 22:04:57 GMT

Setup: Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.1.1, current disc is 300Mb Maxtor XT-8380E as sd2

Objective: Temporairly add a Sun shoebox, one of the Seagate ST1480 family.

I'm not sure what the new disc is configured as, I'm assuming it's sd0, but
I'd rather not have to go opening the case and poking around to find out.
Also, the new disk is formatted, but has nothing on it, my current disc has
the OS on it, the idea is to connect the new disc and copy the OS across.

At the back, there's two 50pin SCSI connectors, I've plugged the sun into the
bottom one, and the current sd2 disk into the top one, then booted the
machine, here's when the fun begins, I get these error messages:

scsi: getbyte failed
scsi: getbyte failed
invalid status msg = FFFFFFFF

this is repeated again, and then nothing else, no response from either disc,
if I swap the connections to the new scsi disc around and boot, there's
NOTHING, no error messages, zilch, the Maxtor also has a scsi tape in it's
casing, in both cases, this grinds/chugs for a bit, but that's about all that
happens, and isn't out of the ordinary.

On the back of the shoebox, is also a little window thing, with the number 1
in it, and two miniscule buttons above and below, with - and + on them
respectively, what is this for?  Is it perhaps an indicator of what sd? this
disk is configured for, meaning that it's currently sd1?

I've looked through admin manual pages, but can't find any reference to the
error messages, so I'll look through paper manuals tonight, in the meantime
though, can anyone tell me what might be wrong?  This is very important, and
any help would be useful.

	Andrew
--
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Leicester Uni.   | "Capital, we shall give you a horse that can't be ridden."
ajs6@leicester.ac.uk   |		      ``Wyrd Sisters'', Terry Pratchett
From: ssurgui@ucdacm.denver.colorado.edu (Scott Surguine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: How  To Install SENDMAIL on Sun 3/160
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:37:39 GMT


I DID RTFM but in Key places it is POORLY Written.

How Do I Install 5.65 On My 3/160 SunOS 3.0B?

My Questions are:

1) Edit tcpproto.cf in cf/cf to my System/Domain Specs:  At this point 
   What do I do with the Resultant File?
2) What Links Need to be Made From Home Directory to my new cf file.
3) Why do I get this error message when trying to run make:

   ./sendmail.h: 395 s_host redefined

   This Message occurs for most of the src files and then the make
   bombs at version.c : the last file in src.

   All Responses Are Greatly Appreciated:
   Please E-Mail
   Scott A. Surguine
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin,de.comp.unix,comp.unix.admin
From: mrmach@mtu.edu (MARK ROMAN MACH)
Subject: Re: How to do 'tunefs' on '/'
Keywords: tunefs
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 11:57:05 GMT

>How can I do 'tunefs' on '/'.
>
>The manpages says, that the tuned filesystems must be unmounted.
>Tunefs on mounted '/' gives no error message, but also no effect.
>
>The machine in singleuser-mode gives same result.
>
>Is there a way to unmount '/' on a working system or to make 'tunefs'
>work on mounted '/'.
>

    My man pages say otherwise:

        This program should work on mounted and active file systems.
        Because the super-block is not kept in the buffer cache, the
        program will only take effect if it  is  run  on  dismounted
        file  systems;  if  run  on the root file system, the system
        must be rebooted.
                ^^^^^^^^

    And when I run tunefs (using SunOS 4.1.2), I get:

        walker2.hu(1)# tunefs -m 15 /
        minimum percentage of free space changes from 10% to 15%

    Did you reboot afterwards?

-- 
Mark R. Mach, mrmach@mtu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: humesdg1@netnews.jhuapl.edu (Humes David G. PDP x6651 )
Subject: OpenWindows Developers Guide on Solbourne
Keywords: Solbourne OpenWindows Guide
Organization: JHU/Applied Physics Laboratory
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 04:31:11 GMT

	As a followup to my question the other day about installing Sun's
OpenWindows 3.0 on a Solbourne, I have another question.  The real motivation
for installing OpenWindows 3.0 is that it is a prerequisite for the Open
Windows Developers Guide.  I have some users who need the Guide yesterday and
as a shortcut while we are waiting for Solbourne's OpenWindows 3.0 to be 
delivered, I thought I might as well give Sun's a try.  Realizing now that my 
efforts in that area were in vain, I now have the same concern about the 
Developers Guide which we purchased from Sun.  Since it is an application built
on OpenWindows, my gut feeling is that it should work with Solbourne's 
OpenWindows.  It is my understanding that Solbourne does not currently offer
the product, so my choices are limited.

	The Solbourne platform on which I am installing is a 5/602 running 
OS/MP 4.1A.  I would appreciate any opinions and preferably would like to 
hear from someone with direct experience.  Thanks.
From: ajn@essex.ac.uk (Alastair Neil)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NIS and DNS, yet again, I'm sorry but what can you do
Keywords: NIS,DNS
Date: 18 Nov 92 23:48:31 GMT
Reply-To: ajn@essex.ac.uk
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Dept. of Physics, University of Essex


OK here is the scenario, I have 3 sparcstations running sunos 4.1.1
an ELC an IPC, and an IPX. The ELC is the NIS domain master server.
I have rebuilt the shared c-lib with the resolv+-2.1 routines
and edited the Makefile in /var/yp on the NIS master server, un-commented
the B=-b line and done a make. I have configured /etc/host.conf and 
/etc/resolve.conf on all the machines - all per the instructions in the FAQ.
Domain name resolving works fine on the NIS master - but not at all on the 
clients, please somebody give me a clue. I am a NIS/YP neophyte and I do not
have access to the full SunOS documentation (something I am working on 
correcting). Any constructive comments (except RTFM for obvious reasons)
gratefully received.

-Thanks Alastair.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka)
Subject: Re: /dev/printer
Organization: University of Chicago  LASR
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 17:22:53 GMT

lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:

  >Don't create /dev/printer! This is the name of Unix domain socket
  >the line printer daemon uses. If it is not there, lpd doesn't
  >start OK.

 If you've installed Patch-ID# 100305-10 (lpd can be used to delete 
any file on the system,  SunOS 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3), your
startup in /etc/rc would look like


     if [ -f /usr/lib/lpd ]; then
             rm -f /dev/lpd/printer /var/spool/lpd.lock
                       ^^^^
                        NEW
             /usr/lib/lpd;           echo -n ' printer'
     fi
     

 This looked like a good patch to install. /dev/printer is now a
link to /dev/lpd/printer.


glenn     
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