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From: tal@plts.uucp (Tom Limoncelli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: What about clones ? re: Sunergy (SPARCclassic and LX) and 4.1.3
Date: 9 Jan 1993 12:59:51 -0500
Organization: P.L.T.S., North Plainfield, NJ, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: plts.uucp

In article <C0LFMC.80x@cosy.sbg.ac.at> lendl@cosy.sbg.ac.at (Otmar Lendl) writes:

>I don't know if the MicroSparc architecture is already available to
>the cloners (as the SuperSparc seems to be, as there are SS 10 clones
>(at least) announced.), but if yes, the porting effort should be
>worthwhile. LX systems running SunOS 4.1.x would probably sell very good.

It is my understanding that both MicroSparc (Tsunami and Tsunami+)
chips will be available to cloners at the same time as they are
available to everyone else.  This is just my understanding, I'm not
a spokesperson for anyone involved (Tsunami were developed by Sun and
TI and "outside help").

Tom
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Need Sun's X fonts in BDF form.
From: jkp@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (Jens Petersohn)
Date: 9 Jan 93 10:34:42 EST
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

sanner@track.physics.usfca.edu (Operator) writes:
: 
: We need to run some of your xview applications on our DECStation 5000.
: 
: Unfortunately it does not have any of the lucida-sans fonts or
: the olcursor or olglyph fonts so I can not run any OL apps.
: 
: I figure if I can get the bdf files of these fonts I can compile them
: on my DECStation.
: 
: Does anyone know where I can gets these fonts or another way around
: this typical Sun font problem?
: 
: 		Thanks,

You might want to investigate the OW 3.0 convertfont utility program.

: 
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:                                     U of S.F. Physics Research Laboratory
:                                     SF, CA 94117   (415) 666-2962


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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9946 comp.sys.hp:14511
From: aaronf@fc.sde.hp.com (Aaron Friesen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: X-ing from HP to SUN
Date: 5 Jan 93 16:02:04 GMT
Reply-To: aaronf@fc.hp.com
Organization: HP SESD, Fort Collins, CO
NNTP-Posting-Host: racer.sde.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.4 PL6]

Richard Congdon (richard@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu) wrote:
: In article <1993Jan2.151039.558@cho006.cho.ge.com> carl_r@cho006.cho.ge.com (Computer Systems & Tools) writes:
: >
: >    we recently added about 50 hp 715 workstations (running hpux 9.0) to
: >    our network of suns (running 4.1.2...in some cases running 4.1.3).
: >
: >    my problem is x-ing from the HPs to the Suns...using the command:
: >    <xtool> -display sunnode:0.0
: >
: >    it takes an incredible amount of time (say 10 to 15 minutes) to get the
: >    display up on a sun station.
: >
: 
: I have noticed things like this happening if DNS is not working properly.
: Can the HP's resolve "sunnode"?
: 

No, the problem is most likely that they are running OpenWindows 3.
Request a patch from Sun.  The patch ID I have is 100444-23.  As a
work-around, use the X resource 

	*useColorObj:	False

--

Aaron

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: Uh-oh, Solaris 2.1 is here...
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 09:10:40 GMT

alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne) writes:

>Some hints: The 'User' or 'Development' package does not include all packages
>from Solaris 2.1. You have to install the other packages with 'swm', the
>software manager (which is not documented in my notes), especially the
>SunWABE (?) package, which contains the system documentation (not man pages).
>Solaris 2.1 is slow, i hope that newer Solaris 2.X versions fix this 
>problem. Connect all devices (tape, CD) you want to use before booting
>and installing Solaris, since it will only create driver entrys for 
>installed peripherals at boot time. Otherwise you need to edit /etc/system or
>use add_drvs to install peripheral drivers, but i didn't find out (yet)
>how to create the special devices in /devices/ (for tapes, as example).

I find that Solaris 2.1 is pretty fast and the installation method
is better than suninstall. I like pkgadd/pkgchk and the like.

Officially, you have to reboot your system with ``boot -r'' when
you add devices, which is especially bad when you are used to
<L1-A> add/remove SCSI device ``go''. This was unsupported practive
in SunOS 4.x and it is still unsupported. If you want to
reconfigure a running system, there's an easy way:

	# setenv _DVFS_RECONFIG YES (or touch /etc/reconfigure)
	# /etc/init.d/drvconfig
	# /etc/init.d/devlinks

Works like a charm.

Casper
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9899 comp.unix.questions:15149
From: efroyman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Ella Froyman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Error while doing tar on SPARC 2
Keywords: sun
Date: 4 Jan 93 16:52:50 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Northeastern University


Hi netters;

I am getting a error Message while doing tar. Thes message
goes like this .... Block: 22000 File number:1

                    Sense Key: Media Error
Whats wrong? Please reply to my email
thanks
Ella
From: sdc@jackson.noname (steve comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Virtual Desktop
Date: 12 Jan 1993 19:13:28 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: sdc@jackson.noname
NNTP-Posting-Host: jackson.larc.nasa.gov

Is there a Virtual Desktop for MWM? If so, please let me know

					Thanks,
						
						sdc@jackson.larc.nasa.gov


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: stewart@ra.cis.udel.edu (John Stewart)
Subject: Re: Public Domain HELPDESK software
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:42:49 GMT

In article <1993Jan4.165529.4153@mobil.com> dxbabu@dal.mobil.com (D. Babu [Dorai]) writes:
>A while back, someone has posted an article about Public Domain Help Desk 
>Software.  Can someone tell me the name and the site where it is 
>available. 
>
>I would appreciate your help.

Delmarva Power's Help Desk Management System, based on the
UNIFY 2000 RDBMS engine from UNIFY Corportaion, is openly
available.  Get pub/hdms/HDMS.tar.Z (or pub/hdms/HDMS.tar)
from ftp.delmarva.com (138.39.7.10) via anonymous FTP.

You might not be able to get it right away: we just put
Solaris 2.1 on that machine, and can't get anonymous FTP
to work.  Give us a couple of days, max...

/jws
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rob@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Rob Logan)
Subject: /etc/system in Solaris 2.1
Reply-To: rob@sun.soe.clarkson.edu
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 22:05:25 GMT

where does one find a list a variables that are setable in /etc/remote
in Solaris 2.1? (answerbook page is fine..)

BTW these are the little things I've noticed about installing Solaris 2.1:

hostname = uname -S
/etc/hostname.le0 can't have a "." any where in it, but /etc/nodename
  can be fully qualifyed..
one uses pkgadd and pkgrm to untar things into /opt.. 
/etc/restore = /usr/lib/fs/ufs/ufsrestore
/etc/fstab = vfstab
/etc/exports = dfs/dfstab
it uses a shadowed passwd file so one has to use admintool to add users...
the only file I didn't have to look for was defaultrouter

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcdono@nosc.mil (Tim McDonough CSC )
Subject: FTP site for current Sun whitepapers?
Keywords: FTP Sun whitepaper
Reply-To: mcdono@nosc.mil
Organization: NCCOSC, NRaD Division
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 16:49:51 GMT

Subject is it. Looking specifically for info on Solaris 2.X.
Looked on ftp.uu.net, etc. found nothing newer than 8/92

Is there a sun ftp site?

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Computer Sciences Corp.         |   do not reflect those of my employer
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne)
Subject: Re: Uh-oh, Solaris 2.1 is here...
Organization: Einoed Unix & Netzwerke, Berlin (FRG)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 10:13:03 GMT

morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley) writes:

>Ok, so I get the Solaris 2.1 CD the other day, along with the AnswerBook
>CD.  Within the short time I've been "listening in" on the SUN newsgroups,
>I've read that several people seem to be balking at making the move (from
>4.1.2, etc)...

>It's my understanding that the move essentially brings us from a BSD
>flavored environment to a SVR4 one.  Is this true?  Kinda true?  Not true?
>If so, I assume that the file system will change somewhat (ie: where
>certain directories are located, etc).

>There came with the CD only a *very* thin pamphlet about installing it.
>Needless to say I'm a little worried about botching the install.  Do any
>of you who have actually done it already have any tips/gotchas/suggestions?

Some hints: The 'User' or 'Development' package does not include all packages
from Solaris 2.1. You have to install the other packages with 'swm', the
software manager (which is not documented in my notes), especially the
SunWABE (?) package, which contains the system documentation (not man pages).
Solaris 2.1 is slow, i hope that newer Solaris 2.X versions fix this 
problem. Connect all devices (tape, CD) you want to use before booting
and installing Solaris, since it will only create driver entrys for 
installed peripherals at boot time. Otherwise you need to edit /etc/system or
use add_drvs to install peripheral drivers, but i didn't find out (yet)
how to create the special devices in /devices/ (for tapes, as example).

I saw that there is a Solaris 1.X - 2.X migration guide for administrators
availabe (McGrawHill or Addison&Wesley).

Adrian
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  "On a day such as this you should insist on more than the truth" -Pere Ubu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: dxbabu@dal.mobil.com (D. Babu [Dorai])
Subject: Public Domain HELPDESK software
Organization: Mobil Research and Development
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 16:55:29 GMT

A while back, someone has posted an article about Public Domain Help Desk 
Software.  Can someone tell me the name and the site where it is 
available. 

I would appreciate your help.



-- D. Babu
   (dxbabu@dal.mobil.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kowal@ide.com (Stephen Kowalczyk)
Subject: Re: Script to turn /etc/hosts into DNS hosts file?
Organization: Interactive Development Environments, SF
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:19:38 GMT

In article <1993Jan11.223534.27551@netcom.com> ema@netcom.com (Energy Management Assoc) writes:
>Anyone know where I could find a script or something that would
>change a regular hosts file into a DNS hosts file?
>

There is a perl script called "h2n" written by the Paul Albitz and
Cricket Liu (who also wrote the Nutshell book "DNS and BIND").  It's
available as part of the examples from the book, and can be ftp'd 
from ftp.uu.net in /published/oreilly/nutshell/dnsbind. The filename
is dns.tar.Z.  You can also get it via ftpmail.  Let me know if you need
instructions for that.

Actually, I would recommend buying the book.  Full of information.
Assumes no knowledge of DNS, so it starts off really basic, but it
does contain quite a bit of good info.

Good luck,

Stephen
From: phil@Shiva.COM (Phil Budne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: removing bootpd messages
Date: 4 Jan 93 23:22:34 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Shiva Corporation, Cambridge Ma, USA

In article <bostater.726178589@rsal> Scott.Bostater@gtri.gatech.edu writes:
>My /usr/adm/messages file is getting flooded with
>warnings that a hardware address was not found.  I've tried setting
>the logging level to 0 (bootpd -d 0) but I still get the warning
>messages. 
>
>Is there some other way to disable the logging?

The LBL version of bootpd has a '-q' flag that ethernet/IP address not
found messages.

-Phil
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From: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Tim Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Compuserve's Internet Address
Date: 12 Jan 1993 01:53:20 GMT
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Distribution: world
Reply-To: tjt@Jpl.Nasa.Gov
NNTP-Posting-Host: scn1.jpl.nasa.gov

Compuserve.com has 3 mail gateways:

iha.compuserve.com	149.174.128.1
ihb.compuserve.com	149.174.128.1
ihc.compuserve.com	149.174.128.1

Hope that helps.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.windows.open-look
From: wbt@cs.tulane.edu (Bill Thomason)
Subject: Strange behavior of OW 3.0 xdm
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 17:37:08 GMT
Nntp-Posting-Host-[nntpd-23404]: proteus

I'm running OW 3.0 and xdm that's come with the OW 3.0 distribution on
ELC's running SunOS 4.1.3.

I logged in on the console of a workstation and xdm started up the Open Look
window manager as usual and I was able to go about my business.  I noticed
a quirk at the end when I exited the environment.  The text login prompt
appeared on the screen and the xnews server didn't restart immediately.
In fact, it remained like this for about 10-15 minutes until the xnews server
and xdm restarted.

While the text login prompt was visible, I was able to log in and noticed
that the xdm process was swapped out and the xnews server was no where to be
found.  During this text login session, xdm restarted and I had to log in
through xdm so I could kill off my suspended login session.

The problem doesn't consistently appear but when it does appear it could
cause some big problems for someone who just sat down and logged in.

Has anyone seen this problem?  If so, were you able to fix it and how?

many thanks,
-bill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mikebo@timesink.chi.il.us (Michael Borowiec)
Subject: NFS QUESTION: Timing out hard mounts
Organization: HAM Radio Station N9EUZ, Naperville, IL
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 03:09:17 GMT

I have two Sun servers that hard mount each other's file systems.
One is a 4/690 with fast SCSI-2 disk running SunOS 4.1.3.
The other is a 3/280 with slooooow SMD disks on XY451 controllers
running 4.1.1_U1. When booted at the same time, the Sun 3 server
must fsck each filesystem, which takes virtually forever. The
Sun 4 server would come up much quicker because it simply checks
the CLEAN flag and so doesn't run fsck unless it needs to. Problem
is, the Sun 4 server is trying to hard mount 15 filesystems from
the Sun 3 server. Each one takes about 4 minutes to background.
End result is, the Sun 4 never boots any faster than the Sun 3
because it's got to time out on all those hard mounts one at a
time... (Please don't tell me to run the automounter 8-)

1) Since I am using the "bg" option, why does it take so long to
   time out the RPC request and background the mount?
2) Are the "retrans" and "timeo" options only effective on soft mounts?
3) What can you recommend to shorten the time it takes before I see:
   mount: server:/directory not responding
   RPC: Port mapper failure
   RPC: Timed out
   mount: backgrounding server:/directory

Thanks, Mike

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:10121 aus.mail:242
From: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,aus.mail
Subject: Timezones,Australia,SunOS4.1.2
Date: 9 Jan 1993 06:55:26 GMT
Organization: Her Master's Voice
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au
NNTP-Posting-Host: britt.pax.tpa.com.au

I keep getting complaints from people I mail to that my mail is going
out with the time specified as "CST" which conflicts with the USA "CST"
specification - they all want me to change it to an offset from GMT.

I have set up several Suns' using the standard install menu and selected
Australia, then South Australia, as requested. This presumably uses the
stuff in the zoneinfo directories to establish the timezone. I presumed
that what came from sun was ok, but this seems not to be the case !
Furthermore the standard file doesn't even bother with changing the S to
D during daylight savings !@#$

My questions are ...

 - if I manually change the format entry in the timezone file to a fixed
   GMT offset, how do I get it to change with daylight savings time ?

 - ideally I would like to have both, eg. +1030 (Aus/EDT) or something
   along those lines, again both updated to reflect daylight savings. I
   guess I could use the LETTERS field with either a 0 or a 1 to go
   from +1030 to +1130 or whatver but this is not a very elegant solution.

 - will this later form upset any mail readers that expect a certain date
   format ?

I am sure there must be a few australians who have dealt with this already.
Any hints ?

david



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lott@bogner.informatik.uni-kl.de (Christopher Lott AGSE)
Subject: Re: List of SUN Bug fixes
Organization: Universitaet Kaiserslautern FB Informatik
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 16:50:42 GMT

In article <hanson.726692377@pogo> hanson@pogo.fnal.gov writes:
>If you're not on software maintenance, you really aren't legally
>entitled to the patches, and Sun won't give them to you (except for
>some security-related patches).

Fine, beyond the headache of getting the patches, which I'm told
are available via anon ftp, I would like to know whether there is
any canonical way to get a list of all the patches that should be
applied to a given system.  No, we don't have support, that's why
I'm asking the nice people who read this group :-)  I have found
a number of patches that clearly apply to us, but wonder how many
we are missing.

On the same subject, is it worth upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2?
(Is this a FAQ?  Sorry if so.)  Is or will there ever be 4.1.3 for
sparcs such as the IPX?  Or is our only recourse to jump to 5.0
and Solaris (and a whole new set of bugs)?

chris...
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: TOSHIBA CD-ROM on IPX ?
From: jkp@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (Jens Petersohn)
Date: 10 Jan 93 12:53:29 EST
Distribution: na
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

osh@cray.com (O'Shaughnessy John) writes:
: Greetings,
: 
: What steps are necessary to activate a Toshiba CD-ROM on an IPX running 4.1.3?
: 
: I've got the device set to SCSI address 6, and scsi-probe sees it, yet I get
: an unrecognized vendor message during boot.  If I try to mount the drive,
: the CD-ROM access light lights, but it times out after a few minutes, with
: error messages at the console.
: 
: 
: Any ideas or pointers to the information would be greatly appreciated.
: 
: 
: Thanks!
:

What you need is a driver, such as one from Young Minds Inc. I use a 
Toshiba drive on our SPARCstation 1 here and had to by said driver.

: -- 
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: John M. O'Shaughnessy					osh@a00308.cray.com
: Cray Research, Inc.	Voice: 612.683.7322		Fax: 612.683.7509


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| Ritter Observatory                |                                       |
| University of Toledo              | Bitnet:   jkp@uoft02                  |
| 2801 W. Bancroft                  |                                       |
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From: jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: yppush mail.aliases locks up
Date: 7 Jan 93 20:52:18 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.cl.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.cl.msu.edu

System:
	NIS server sun3/480 running 4.1
	slaves are SS2's    running 4.1.1
---
When I run the following on our NIS master I this is what I get:

yppush -v mail.aliases
Can't bind master to send ypclear message to ypserv for map mail.aliases.
Finding NIS servers:Map ypslaves.cad1 unknown NIS client error code -- using ypservers
	vikings broncos tardis niners desk cad1 beal
beal has been called.
cad1 has been called.
desk has been called.
niners has been called.
Status received from ypxfr on cad1:
	Transfer not done:  master's version isn't newer.
tardis has been called.

At this point it locks up and I have to CNTRL-C out.  Any ideas??
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