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From: hgoh@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Han Lin Goh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: modem for Sparc 2
Keywords: modem install
Date: 14 Apr 1992 19:25:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

Hi, I'm quite new to the group and to system administration so please bear with me.

We're getting a USR Courier V.32bis modem for our Sparc 2 and I'd like to know
about software installation procedures. In the manual it says to change the
jumpers to RS232 then modify the kernel (ttytab and so on) and then connect
the modem. Is this all there is on the software side? What happens when I do
all that then dial in to the SUN - can I customize a welcome message, what will
users see when they dial up? Are they immediately given a shell just as if 
they had logged on from a terminal?

This is probably a simple question, but I can't seem to find anything in the
manuals or the USR brochures that explains this for me. Please email responses
Thank you.
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Can GNU C be used as a replacement for /bin/cc in SunOS 4.1.2?
Date: 8 Apr 92 18:42:05 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

(Pointless "usa" distribution deleted; the export version of SunOS 4.1.2
has, as far as I know, the same C compiler that the US/Canada version
does - it'd be the *exact same* version of SunOS 4.1.2 if the US
Government weren't so stupid.)

>It also
>contains a ./include directory tree and ./lib/lib* files, i.e. libc.so.1.7,
>etc.

It *has* to contain "libc.so.1.7", for much the same reason that it
*has* to contain "vmunix"; "libc.so.1.7" is a shared library, so any
dynamically-linked binaries, such as 99 44/100% of the binaries
distributed with SunOS, have to have it there in order to run.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: todd@draco.macsch.com (Todd C. Williams)
Subject: Re: file archive system
Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 02:45:15 GMT

In article <1992Apr1.162050.6740@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams) writes:
>We're looking for SW that lets users ask to have their files put on tape

Sounds like a mistake -- some users would want *EVERYTHING* on tape, and
others would forget to ask for *anything*.  We're looking at a similar
system that puts things on tape as specified by the administrator.

>and the system manages the tape archive copys and allows the
>users to request reloads and archives.
>So far Unix is the first system we have had that did not have this.  

So far, UNIX is the first system I've seen where this is available...

>On NOS and NOS/VE we had this real great system where the system kept a
>copy of all your files that you did not modify in a while on archive
>tape and when you did not access it for a while longer it released the
>disk space but the file still looked like it was there.   If you
>accessed it a tape request would come up and the file would be loaded
>and your file access would compleate normally, if not somewhat slower.
>I guess I can not expect to find this on Unix.

Somebody already suggested epoch's box.

>On our IBM we have VMARCHIVE.  It lets users post requests to have their
>files moved to/from tape.  I hope something like this exists for Unix.
>If you know of something could you please let me know.

Try Legato Networker.  You schedule the backups, and users can do the
restores themselves.
-- 
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MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. ("MSC"),  815 Colorado Blvd.,  Los Angeles, CA   90041
"The Democrats stand for nothing except 'I wish I was a Republican' and the
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in balloons and ribbons."  -Frank Zappa, 1991  (Zappa for president!)
From: etxfrick@eds.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: ls -l replies "Arguments too long."
Date: 8 Apr 92 12:45:07 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Printed Circuits Mfg.

I have a group of user who share a set of files. Today one of them was
complaining about lacking write permissions on some of these files.
As he was perfectly right I tried to a 'chmod 664' on this particular
set of files. But.... the only answer I get is: "Arguments too long."
Huh?
The same thing happens when I try to do a 'ls -l "somefiles"'
Just a plain 'ls -l' works ok.
I've tried all possible combinations of both 'ls' and '/usr/5bin/ls' with
the same result.
Any clues, anyone?

Thanx in advance!

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From: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: format.dat
Date: 16 Apr 92 19:38:27 GMT
Reply-To: tarsa@elijah.mv.com (Greg Tarsa)
Followup-To: tarsa@abyss.enet.dec.com
Distribution: na
Organization: Contract Software Services, Inc.


Can someone explain how I determine the values for
	bpt
	cache
	trks_zone
for a disk that is not in the format.dat?  What do I look for in the drive
spec?

bpt seems straightforward (unformatted-size-in-MB/#-tracks*1000000), but I tested the calculation I use on a Micropolis drive (where the mfg specifies bpt) and I don't get the same result they do.  How important is it that this value
be exact?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Greg


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lance@caesar.ucs.indiana.edu (Lance Speelmon)
Subject: Re: Problems after SunOS4.1.2 Upgrade
Organization: Indiana University
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 16:07:40 GMT

We are having a problem with telnet after upgrading.  If I try to
telnet to a host, where the nameserver returns one of twelve
randomized responses, telnet crashes with a seg fault.  This problem
did not exist before upgrading to 4.1.2 and is occurring on all
machines that have been upgraded.  Telnet seems to be crashing right
after the gettimeofday() sys call.  Has anybody else noticed this
problem?

I have tried to telnet to a host, where the nameserver returns one of
four randomized responses, with no problems.

Any ideas?  Patches?

Lance

In article <schneck.702759633@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE> schneck@Physik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Bernhard Schneck) writes:
>sjm@merlinanu.edu.au (Stephen Meatheringham) writes:
>
>>We have just upgraded our SPARCs to SunOS4.1.2 and now we are having problems
>>with libraries when linking programs.   Some of these programs are using the
>>X window libraries, others are using other various libraries (e.g. nag, pgplot,
>>etc.).    The only thing in common is that we get 
>>ld: Undefined symbol
>
>This is a known bug (feature ?) in the SunOS4.1.2 ld (there is also a
>patch for 4.1.1 to break ld).  It tries to resolve *all* undefined
>externals for *all* routines in *all* libraries where you load *any*
>routine from.
>
>The resulting binary runs without problems, just make (and some users)
>get confused by the exit(1) with the bogus unresolved externals.
>
>Some recommend keeping the (unpatched) 4.1.1 ld ... 
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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Xon/Xoff handshaking failure???
Date: 17 Apr 92 18:23:46 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

I have a serial printer connected to a Sparcstation.  The printer sends
Ctrl-S and Ctrl-Q (Xoff/Xon) to tell the Sparc to stop/resume printing
after the buffer gets full.

The problem is that the Sparcstation is ignoring the Ctrl-S.  My termcap
entry specifically says to use Xon/Xoff handshaking.  What else should
I check?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
Subject: Need Script to Parse UUCP logfiles for system connect time
Reply-To: frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow)
Organization: Odetics, Inc., Anaheim, CA
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 21:04:31 GMT

Hi,

Our uunet bill came and there is some concern about how high it is.
One of the questions asked was "are the hourly charges shown
accurate?".  Does anyone out there have a awk/shell/cshell script
that can break down a uucp logfile and compute connect time?  This
should not be too hard, but I hate to reinvent the wheel if I can
avoid it.

Frank

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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: du and df difference
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:22:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: zia.1992Apr15.172246.1291
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <kuc76kINN8gb@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.190755.5643@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
>>Frequently, the system would report
>>
>>  /usr/tmp: filesystem full
>>
>>df and du both reported the same thing, about 30% space used.
>
>We were seeing something similar a while ago, although it was our /
>partition and df reported about 65% used.
>
>One suggestion I got from the net was to check the fragmentation with
>dumpfs.  Indeed, that seemed to be the problem.

How accurate is fsck's report of fragmentation? As I recall, it was no more
than a few percent, according to fsck at boot time.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: sjm@merlinanu.edu.au (Stephen Meatheringham)
Subject: Problems after SunOS4.1.2 Upgrade
Organization: Mt. Stromlo and Siding Spring Observatories
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 06:59:38 GMT

We have just upgraded our SPARCs to SunOS4.1.2 and now we are having problems
with libraries when linking programs.   Some of these programs are using the
X window libraries, others are using other various libraries (e.g. nag, pgplot,
etc.).    The only thing in common is that we get 
ld: Undefined symbol
then a list which varies depending on the libraries specified.
The symbols specified are not ever referenced in the calling program or any
relevent subroutines.   The programs do link successfully, and run (see I said 
they never referenced any of the undefined symbols - which, by the way, are in
the libraries).   However, things like makefiles fall over and stop further
compilations and links.

I stress this did not happen until we went to 4.1.2 and we have NOT touched
any of the libraries in question.   The problems happen under X, OW (2 and 3) 
and under no window systems at all.

I have seen similar comments by a couple of people in the comp.windows.x 
newsgroup and they give the same undefined symbols for X programs.

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					ACT, 2611
					CANBERRA, Australia

					email : sjm@moggie.anu.edu.au
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Running a fingerd with the -m option as default
Date: 13 Apr 1992 00:55:35 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Apr7.110123.10632@newstand.syr.edu> jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart) writes:
>We're running a large NIS environment here, and would rather not
>disable the finger command entirely. However, if the fingerd could be
>run by default with the "-m" flag for outside incoming requests, it
>would absorb a lot less CPU.

Rename /usr/ucb/finger to finger.REAL, and then create a shell script named
/usr/ucb/finger that executes '/usr/ucb/finger.REAL -m "$*"'.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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From: cjb@cbnews.cb.att.com (chandrasekhar.j.bhatt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: protected console, sunview
Keywords: secure console, sunview
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:39:23 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: AT&T

I am running an application on a Sun4 where the graphics get projected on
a big scrren TV. The operator who runs the workstation sometimes quits the 
console window. The operator does have the option of popping up another console
from the root menu. However, before he does that messages coming to the console
mess up the screen.

	Is there a way in Sunview to have a protected console window, such that
it cannot be deleted ? i.e You should be able to close the window to an icon 
but should not be able to delete it at all.

	I would appreciate if somebody could provide me an answer for this.

Thanks,
		Shekhar Bhatt
		cjb@cblph.att.com
From: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A Zook 283-4206)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: 4.1.2 cron and daylight savings time
Date: 6 Apr 92 13:14:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: aio.1992Apr6.131421.17750
Organization: nasa-jsc

In article <1992Apr5.201702@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov>, karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) writes:
|> In article <1992Apr5.201017.14981@cs.tulane.edu>, mb@cs.tulane.edu (Mark
|> Benard) writes:
|> |> Cron jobs on a Sun 670MP stopped running after the time change this
|> |> morning. It looks like cron just forgot the crontab entries, because
|> |> as soon as I editted the entries, cron starting running the jobs as
|> |> specified. This happened with user news.  I am not sure about root,
|> |> because there were no root jobs scheduled.
|> |> 
|> |> Did this happen elsewhere?  With SunOS 4.1.1?
|> 
|> It happened to me also - 4.1.2.  My nightly network backup didn't go -
|> seems like cron just "forgot".
|> --
The same thing occured on my SS2 which I just upgraded to 4.1.2.
My other machines at 4.1.1 had no problem.  Doing a "crontab -e" and
the saving with no changes was enough to make things work again.

-- 
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Systems Engineeering and Administration
McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Corp. - Engineering Services Division
(713) 283-4206
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.hp,jpl.mail.sun-users
From: hutch@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Hutchison [CSC])
Subject: Re: bashed passwd file
Reply-To: hutch@gothamcity.jsc.nasa.gov
Organization: Software Technology Branch - NASA/JSC
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 16:42:03 GMT


I've recovered from similar problems, but not so gracefully. I had
trashed /etc/passwd and saved it.  The soln was to boot single-user
and reconstruct. I had fouled up the root line and it was impossible 
to su, so the only soln was boot singleuser from the console and pull
a backup copy of passwd on to the system.  ...A little bit of work, but
definitely some scarry moments before it worked ... The joys of system
admin...

Hutch

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: aegl@ossi.com (Tony Luck)
Subject: Cron stunned by switch to daylight savings time?
Keywords: /usr/etc/cron
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 19:45:09 GMT

I am running SunOS 4.1.1 on a SPARCstation 2 and I have a personal cron
file to run a job every 30 minutes on the hour and half-hour. The output
from "crontab -l" looks like:

0,30 * * * * /home/nym/aegl/lib/checklink

I started this running in early February ... and it was working fine until
last Sunday.  Yesterday I looked at the logfile that "checklink" produces,
and discovered the last timestamp was "Sun Apr  5 01:30:00 PST 1992".

"ps" said that "cron" was still running. I used "crontab -e" to add a comment
and delete it again to make cron re-read my file ... and everything started
to run again.

What happened? Did cron get confused when it woke up to run the 02:00 PST
command and found that the time was now magically 03:00 PDT? Has anyone else
seen this happen?

-Tony Luck <aegl@ossi.com>
From: trudel@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: /usr/games/fortune on diskless machines
Date: 14 Apr 92 18:32:54 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


Can someone explain why /usr/games fortune opens the
/usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat read-write for user, group, and other?  
Since it's only supposed to read the file, I can't understand why
fortune does this.  I checked this running "trace fortune" and the
open on the fortunes.dat file is as follows:

open ("/usr/games/lib/fortunes.dat", 02, 0666) = -1 EROFS (Read-only file system)

Why is that?  How can I work around this on diskless workstations that
mount /usr readonly?
From: sharon@Think.COM (Sharon Eisner Gillett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: batch systems on top of sunos?
Date: 7 Apr 1992 20:31:51 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: merlin.think.com
Keywords: batch, jcl, nqs

I'm trying to find out about packages on top of SunOS, other than (or on top of) NQS, that support batch scheduling (run my production job later) and distributed job submission.

The two commercial offerings I've come across so far are NQS/exec from The Cummings Group, and Balans from VXM Technologies.  Does anyone know of others?  I couldn't find anything listed in the Catalyst catalog.

I've found a number of related academic and supercomputer-center systems, too, but I'm more interested in commercially-supported software.

Please reply directly to me.

Sharon Eisner Gillett
Thinking Machines Corp.
sharon@think.com
From: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sun rfs
Date: 9 Apr 92 20:54:55 GMT
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland


I'm trying to get a sun 3/60 (4.1) to talk with a motorola delta (svr3.?,
r5).  Rfs seems to work otherwise, but user id mapping fails.  Root can do
anything (no exclude), but nobody else can access the files.

All rule files contain
global
default transparent

I also tried different variations of maps, including map all.

The same configuration has worked between two motorola computers.

-
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hsu@{otax.tky.hut,cs.hut,clinet}.fi  +385-0-8031121
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From: seaney@engr.wisc.edu (Steve Seaney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Another parity error
Date: 9 Apr 92 18:31:55 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr9.133156.3768


A few days ago one of our Sparc 1's died with a parity error related
to memory.  

Today one of our Sparc IPC's died with a different error (see below).
Is there any way that these could be related?  Can anyone give me any
insight on the second problem?

Thanks a lot!
Steve

from /var/adm/messages:
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: DVMA Parity Error, ctx = 0x0, virt addr = 0xfff1
5fec
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: pme = e2002125, phys addr = 2125fec
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: Parity Error Register 91<ERROR,CHECK,ERR24>
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix:  bad module/chip at: ?
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: System operation cannot continue, will test loca
tion anyway.
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: parity error at 2125fec is transient.
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: panic: dvma parity error
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: esp0: Unrecoverable DMA error on dma send
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: sd0:    SCSI transport failed: reason 'tran_err'
: retrying command
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: syncing file systems... esp0:   Target 3 now Syn
chronous at 4.167 mb/s max transmit rate
Apr  9 11:40:43 robios1 vmunix: panic: zero


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From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Memory leak?  SunOS 4.1.2 / OW 3.0
Summary: It could really be anything....
Date: 7 Apr 92 18:50:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

Has anyone out there run into a memory leak problem
on SparcStations running SunOS 4.1.2?  We recently 
upgraded and started running into this problem.
I don't know what is causing it.  It could be OpenWindows
3.0, but I think I have noticed the problem even before anyone
starts it up.  After a while, you start getting out of memory
messages and it's time to reboot.

Is there a patch for this?  (Please say yes).

Thanks
Robert
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bcc900@sundance.anu.edu.au (Bruce C Cogan)
Subject: Tape management software
Organization: Australian National University
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 00:07:36 GMT

I am looking at software packages for (1) backups and file recovery,
and (2) user access to tapes held in a tape library and owned by
individuals or groups.

These are to be used in a central, operator-run university computing
centre. I have read vendor literature for a number of commercial
products (e.g. Legato Networker, REELbackup, etc.). There are a number
of candidates for (1), but only one (REELlibrarian) for (2).

I have not come across any public domain packages that provide these
services - things like on-line indexes, operator mount requests,
(electronic) tape labels, etc.

I would be interested in hearing from anyone who knows of PD software
of this kind.


Bruce Cogan                                      Bruce.Cogan@anu.edu.au
Head - Unix Support Group
Computer Services Centre			 Tel. +61 6 249 4468
Australian National University                   Fax  +61 6 247 3425
G.P.O. Box 4 
Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia