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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Mapping Function Keys
From: jradon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu (Jennifer Radon)
Date: 11 Jan 93 12:57:57 EST

Does anyone out there know how to map commands to function keys?  Is it
possible?  I'd like to be able to redefine "F2" to do an "ls" for
example.

I'm working with a sun type-4 keyboard. Someone told me to use 
"loadkeys", but I can't get it to map commands. Am I trying
to do the impossible?

Thanx in advance to anyone who can give me a clue!

-Jen
jradon@jupiter.cse.utoledo.edu
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From: scott@memex.co.uk (Scott Williamson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Problem with SunNet X.25 7.0
Date: 8 Jan 93 11:03:36 GMT
Organization: Memex Information Systems Ltd, East Kilbrde, Scotland

I am having a problem trying to get TCP/IP running over SunNet X.25
between 2 Sparcstation 2s. The basic X.25 connectivity is there ie. I
can 'pad' in either direction successfully. However when I try to
configure the X.25 manager to layer TCP/IP over it I cannot get a
connection. It appears that the source address in the packets received
by the destination machine is being corrupted somewhere along the way.
Is this familiar to anyone as a Sun problem or should I be blaming the
network?

Scenario:

2 identically configured Sparc 2s running SunOs 4.1.2, SunNet 7.0 (no
patches installed), HSI/S cards with network connection at 64Kbps.

Network is wide area PSDN supplied by Gandalf.

x25manager.configuration defines only the path between the 2 machines.
Using dynamic (std0) interface.

As mentiontioned previously, 'pad' works in both directions.

When I try to 'ping' the hostname in the x25manager configuration
files it does not get a reply. The x25manager log file in the
destination machine logs messages something like "can't find path to
host" (I don't have it to hand just now).

x25trace on the source machine shows:

	DST: 100000001104	(correct)
	SRC: 100000002104	(correct)

x25trace on the destination machine shows:

	DST: 100000001104	(correct)
	SRC: 001200002104	(wrong)
             ----

Hence the problem with the return path. I am puzzled that 'pad' works
fine because the source address also comes up wrong in an x25trace for
these connections.

'rlogin' , 'telnet', etc. don't work either.

It looks obvious to me that the network is corrupting the packet header
but the network support people are showing some reluctance to blame their
kit so can anyone shed any light on this.

Thanks

Scott Williamson		scott@memex.co.uk
From: ken@Bridge.COM (Ken Hardy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Cannot UPload to Sparc
Date: 11 Jan 93 23:13:28 GMT
Organization: Planet Earth

Ever since I switched from 2400B to 9.6KB on my dialin line, I cannot
UP-load to my Sparc.  It's independent of the protocol; I've tried
UUCP, Kermit, and Xmodem.  I can download from the Sparc without any
problems.  I'm using v.32 or v.42 (I'm not sure which).  The connection
is errorless when I'm just terminaling or downloading.  My Kermit &
Xmodem don't say much other than that the transfer failed.  The UUCP
logs always say 'input error' or some such.  It looks like it fails on
the 1st or second packet.

Any clues?

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
From: bhays@teal.csn.org (Boyd Hays)
Subject: SLIP on a SUN?
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:37:08 GMT

Hello,
    I need to put SLIP up on a SUN IPC running 4.1.2. Is there a general
    concensus as to which version is "best". I'm anticipating putting up
    cslip-2.6. Is this good, bad, or indifferent. Also, I keep reading in
    most documents associated with the various SLIP verions not to have
    a getty on the serial line. I'm confused. What I want to do is:

    1) Hang a getty on the receiving modem's port.
    2) Make the connection over a phone line.
    3) Login to a account that runs sliplogin or the equivalent.
       (I don't have sanction to run slattach on the host machine)

    Is this the general process? Is there a FAQ for SLIP installations?
    The best thing I've found so far is the O'Rielly TCP/IP Administration
    book's description. Are there any other "standard" references?

Thanks in advance,
Boyd Hays
bhays@csn.org

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
Subject: Re: dial-in modem setup
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Distribution: na
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 06:58:38 GMT

anton@analsyn.gts.org (Anton J Aylward) writes:

>In the article (<1807@ocpt.ccur.com>) Bill Pechter (pechter@ocpt.ccur.com) posted to comp.unix.admin:

>: OK - anyone want to say that System V Release 4's sac, ttymon and such
>: are easier than the SVR[123] getty/gettydefs.

>: The only thing I see about ttymon that I like is the ability to put  a
>: "this terminal disabled by sysadmin" message on lines with no getty.

>No I wouldn't say its easier, not least of all since the vrsion I have
>seems to be buggy.

>HOWEVER, I can also substitute what the login program is.
>That is without overwriting the normal one.



I missed the original thread of this article, but I was going to post on the
same general subject anyway, so I'm making this a followup.  I've got an Intel
400e 14.4K FAXmodem hooked up to a 690MP running SunOS 4.1.1, and I want to
enable dialins to that modem.  Problem is, when I dialin and login, the
computer doesn't hang up the modem correctly, so that logging out gets me the
"login:" prompt again, and if I break the connection from the remote end, the
next person to dialin gets dropped into my session.  Highly undesireable :-)

I've got the modem set to AT&D3 (drop carrier on reset on DTR transition) and
I think I have the gettydefs correct (I tried 'ms=crtscts,-clocal', for
hardware handshaking and modem control lines)  I've played around with various
permutations of the control lines in gettydefs and modem setup, but nothing
seems to work.  I'm sure someone has run into this before and knows what to
look for.  Can anyone help?  Thanks!

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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS lockup
Date: 4 Jan 1993 16:33:05 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <C0AsG2.Az7@quadsys.com> roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:
>With the above partitions NFS mounted I have discovered that if 'dec1'
>goes down or is halted, trying to change directory form any OW applications
>(filemgr, audiotool, ...) to '/' will lock that application AND the
>window manager solid. EVERYTHING related to OW stops. I have to wait
>for 'dec1' to come back up.
>
>How can I prevent this?

Don't put NFS mounts (or even links to them) in your root directory.  The
problem is that the appliction is trying to list the directory, and it
hangs when it gets to /dec1.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: toomajia@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Mark Toomajian)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 17:18:54 GMT
Subject: Re: Out of kernel inodes?
Organization: the HP Corporate notes server
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin

I believe there is a bug with pstat -T which does report the kernal inodes
correctly.  Here's an excerpt from the man page:

BUGS
     It would be very useful  if  the  system  recorded  "maximum
     occupancy" on the tables reported by -T; even more useful if
     these tables were dynamically allocated.

Hope this helps.

Mark T.

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From: bradshaw@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Need format.dat parms for Fujitsu M2652SA SCSI disk drive...
Date: 11 Jan 93 11:08:08 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I was wondering if anyone reading this might know the format.dat
paramters for a Fujitsu M2652SA 2.0 Gb SCSI disk drive which 
would enable me to format it under SunOS 4.1.1. All replies
appreciated. Thanks in advance. My E-Mail addresses follow...

BRADSHAW@CCVAX.UCD.IE
CBRADH89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
CHRIS@BERMUDA.UCD.IE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
Subject: Re: deciphering printcap fc,fs,xc,xs fields
Reply-To: elling@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 00:47:44 GMT

In article 16088@auspex-gw.auspex.com, guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>Pretty gross, eh?  Now you know why I put the "ms" capability into the
>4.0 printer stuff - no gross octal numbers, just "stty"-style
>strings....

Many many THANKS for doing so!  IMHO punt the fc/xc/fs/xs and only
use ms.  ms sure has saved me lots of hours of work :-)

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 Auburn University                       Engineering Administration
 richard.elling@eng.auburn.edu   KB4HB [44.100.0.72]  (205)844-2280
 Type-5 keyboard survival: xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: vrt1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Venkat R Tadepalli)
Subject: Bernoulli drives for Sun ???
Reply-To: vrt1@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Venkat R Tadepalli)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:46:59 GMT

Hi Netters:

Does anyone know if there are any removable cartridge drives for
the suns? I am talking about the ones that have SCSI interfaces
(like the ones that connect to Macs). Also, is it possible to
connect the removable cartridge drives that are available for Macs
(such as Bernoulli or Lacie drives) to Suns? If so, how do I do that?

I'd appreciate any information regarding this.

Thanks,
Venkat
From: eanders+@CMU.EDU (Eric A. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Partition Getting Messed up
Date: 10 Jan 93 21:21:59 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.8fIG0Lm00Zk281EkBm
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

I have a Sun SparcStation 2, 32 megs of memory, Internal SUN0424 drive
and an External Toshiba MK538FB drive.  
I'm finding that about once a day or so, the /usr partition on the
internal drive is getting completely corrupted.  The super block gets
corrupted requiring me to use the -b option to fsck.  When I do that,
I get messages which look like:
PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=35224
SALVAGE? y

1752526443 BAD I=35224
7106407 BAD I=35224
674375968 BAD I=35224
1868963939 BAD I=35224
1752526443 BAD I=35224
544434554 BAD I=35224
1694510436 BAD I=35224
1667326824 BAD I=35224
1694527093 BAD I=35224
1835165042 BAD I=35224
EXCESSIVE BAD BLKS I=35224
CONTINUE? y
3 DUP I=35243
4 DUP I=35243
5 DUP I=35243
6 DUP I=35243
7 DUP I=35243
8 DUP I=35243
9 DUP I=35243
10 DUP I=35243
458764 BAD I=35243
-144572380 BAD I=35243
... etc...
--
I can make the complete transcript of the fsck up till when fsck core
dumped available if that would help.
Part of the problem is that when it is done fsck'ing the partition,
the problem is not fixed, the partition is still bad.
I have run sundiag's tests on the partition and found no reported
problem.  I manually ran the rawtest to make sure it was testing the g
partition.  After the second time this happened, I reformatted the
entire internal drive, which appeared to run a test on the drive, and
the test displayed no bad sectors.  I wrote a program to write test
patterns to the disk and check that they were read in the same, using
the raw device.  This discovered no problems either.
At this point, the only guess I can make is that I'm having some
interaction problem with the external drive because that's the only
thing that changed.  It just doesn't make any sense to me that I can
just newfs the partition again and start to use it and it will work
fine for 12 hours or so and then start to go bad.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Please send them to me, and I will summarize, or just post, I'll be
trying to watch the newsgroup to see anything useful.
Thanks,
          -Eric 
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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: mount CD-ROM as pcfs?
Date: 9 Jan 93 01:39:12 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Is it possible to mount a DOS format CD-ROM using a Sun CD player?

What do you mean by a "DOS format CD-ROM"?

If the CD-ROM is in High Sierra or ISO 9660 format, then it's not in
"DOS format" in the sense of having a DOS file system on it; as such, it
should not be mounted as type "pcfs".  Instead, it should be mounted as
type "hsfs".

I think many CD-ROMs used on DOS systems are, in fact, in High Sierra or
ISO 9660 format.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: sdc@jackson.noname (steve comer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: DNS
Date: 11 Jan 1993 15:07:00 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: sdc@jackson.noname
NNTP-Posting-Host: jackson.larc.nasa.gov

Is anybody running DNS w/o NIS using sun OS 4.1.3?  Help!


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: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:00:17 GMT

fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:

>In article <1993Jan11.101303.18753@einoed.in-berlin.de> alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne) says:
>: 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).

>I thought that the suninstall program did a very clear job of
>indicating which packages were available and letting you choose which
>to install.  Much nicer than the 4.1.x suninstall method.

The installation at boot time only gives the choice between 'End user' and 
'Developer', so i choose the last.
The 'swmtool' is indeed a nice tool but lacks some options for everyday
use (as example, i would like to see where packages get installed and 
of which files the packages consist).

>: Solaris 2.1 is slow, i hope that newer Solaris 2.X versions fix this 
>: problem. 
>Are you sure you mean 2.1 and not 2.0??  Solaris 2.1 is about as fast
>as 4.1.3 for most things, slower for some things and faster for
>others.
I have only a SS LC here around with Solaris 2.1 right now, and i can't 
say that this is a fast setup. I suspect some problems with the SCSI
driver (or the controller implementation in the LC) since SCSI activity
will slow down the system noticably. Opening windows or tools on even a 
SS1 with 4.1.3 and 16 MB is faster than on the LC.
So i shouldn't say that Solaris 2.1 is slow but instead that i feel that
the combination LC/2.1 feels slow ;-)

>If you halt the system and boot with "b -r" (or "boot -r" in new prom
>mode) it will look for attached devices, load appropriate drivers and
>configure new /devices and /dev entries for them...all automatically.
>No need to use add_drvs or anything else.
Thanks for the hint. Where is some documentation about this? I installed
the End User answerbook and it only contained some not very interesting
OW 3.0.1 help. 

Adrian
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From: minieri@emperor.gatech.edu (Joe Minieri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: PC's with Novell
Date: 4 Jan 93 20:41:00 GMT
Originator: minieri@emperor

I've been asked to connect a sun to a network
of pc's running novell.  Unfortunately, I don't know
anything about novell - can someone give me alittle insight
on what it takes to be able to rlogin, mount, and/or email
to/from the sun and the pc's.

Any help would be appreciated!

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|Joe Minieri                     | "I'm so hip I have trouble seeing
|minieri@cerl.gatech.edu         |          over my pelvis!"
|                                |     -Zaphod Beeblebrox
From: carl_r@cho006.cho.ge.com (Computer Systems & Tools)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: commercial backup utilities
Date: 5 Jan 93 22:25:57 EDT
Organization: GE Fanuc Automation


    we are considering buying an automated backup utility that creates a
    backup database showing which files live on which tapes...using a tape
    pool, of course.

    does anyone have any experiencing with UNIX backup tools which would
    run on either HPUX or SUNoS 4.1.2/3 ? or both ???

    we've recently have obtained an eval copy of BUDTOOL for the suns...
    any comments on budtool???

    another problem that i have is:  how does one "eval" this type of tool
    with fully implementing it ?  that is, if you use it for backups, then
    you have to use it to recover.

    thanks,

-- 
       Rick Carl
       GE Fanuc Automation N.A.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tmk@mayo.edu (Tom Kinter)
Subject: Re: KSH on Sun
Reply-To: tmk@mayo.edu
Organization: Mayo Clinic/Foundation Rochester MN Campus
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 93 17:18:13 GMT

There was a public version of Korn Shell at anonymous ftp site: phloem.uoregon.edu
in /pub/src/shells/ksh.tar.Z.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ms4@cec1.wustl.edu (M. Shreedhar)
Subject: Process Migration
Organization: Washington University, St. Louis MO
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 07:14:10 GMT


	

	Process Migration between Homogenous SunS does not seem 
	complicated; atleast on paper. So why hasn't Sun got down
	to implementing it? Or is a future version of SunOS going 
	to have it? 
	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tdawson@iphase.com (Tim Dawson)
Subject: Re: What's going with tip?
Organization: Interphase Corporation, Dallas Texas
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:48:48 GMT

aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:

>>I suppose that it is tip problem, but how to get around it?

>I suggest that you punt tip and use ckermit instead.

Or cu - if you are not doing file transfers, kermit is a lot of overhead to
carry for just a dialout session.

>-- 

>======================================================================8--<
-- 
================================================================================
The optionions expressed above do not neccesarily represent those of my 
employer - as a matter of fact, sometimes they wish I would shut up!
Tim Dawson (tdawson@iphase.com)     Group Leader, System Administration/Software
From: mcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu (Robert McGraw)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Recycle SPARC toner Cart.
Date: 6 Jan 93 14:30:54 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP, Sunspot NM, USA

Does anyone know of a place that will recycle/refurb SPARC Toner Cart?
If so could you please send the address.

Thanks
Robert
_______________________________________________________________________
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System Manager                 INTERNET:rmcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu
National Solar Observatory/SP  SPAN: 5355::RMCGRAW or NOAO::RMCGRAW
Sunspot, NM 88349 USA          PHONE: (505) 434-7038


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System Manager                 INTERNET:rmcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu
National Solar Observatory/SP  SPAN: 5355::RMCGRAW or NOAO::RMCGRAW
Sunspot, NM 88349 USA          PHONE: (505) 434-7038
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
From: edwin@csri.toronto.edu (Edwin Allum)
Subject: Re: How could I configure Solaris 2.1 to use the netgroup map?
Date: 12 Jan 93 17:30:32 GMT

maslen@gday.Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Maslen) writes:

>>I've used the following and it works fine:
>>passwd: files compat
>>group: files compat

>I'm glad it worked, but it's a mistake.  The 'files' source (for passwd)
>means "read /etc/passwd", and the 'compat' source means "read /etc/passwd,
>and do something funky with the '+' and '-' entries", so you may end up
>reading /etc/passwd (or /etc/group) twice for no good reason.

You're right, it is a mistake. Correction :), now what I'm actually using is:

passwd: compat
group: files nis

Thanks, Edwin.
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CSRI, University of Toronto
Internet: edwin@csri.toronto.edu Phone: 416-978-8715 Fax: 416-978-4765
From: florent@ecu.unice.fr (Florent Musso)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: I need a format entrie for Sony magnetico-optical drive
Date: 5 Jan 1993 15:15:36 GMT
Organization: University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ecu.unice.fr

I am using a sun SpacStation 1 under Sun OS 4.0.3c and i would like to  
install a Sony Magneto-optical drive ( 1024 byte/sector). Does anybody  
know which entrie to use in /etc/format.dat ?


Thanks


Florent Musso
email:florent@ecu.unice.fr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cliff@suns.chinalake.navy.mil (Cliff )
Subject: resolv.conf - hosts - resolver  How to search hosts AND nameserver 
Organization: NAWS, China Lake, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 23:14:56 GMT

How can I use both the hosts file and the nameserver to resolve an address.
IRIX has the "hostresorder" command but I can't find the equivalent here.

Thanks
From: ddo@wsun2.larc.nasa.gov (Dale Ohmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Compuserve's Internet Address
Date: 11 Jan 1993 17:19:14 GMT
Organization: NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, VA  USA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: wsun2.larc.nasa.gov

Hello,

This may or may not be a Sun System Administration question.

I'm attempting to configure a Sun-IPX's E-mail system.  I think
that I've done everything necessary.  E-mail seems to work fine
to addresses that our name server can handle.

The problem comes with internet names that our name resolver can't 
resolve.  One example is "compuserve.com".  A user's address would 
be of the format: "12345.123@compuserve.com".  On another brand 
machine I can send mail to Compuserve.  On the Sun that I'm 
configuring I can't.  The mail comes back as "deferred".  Actually,
in the mail spool directory, the message is 
"Deferred: Name Server Failure for compuserve.com".

A quick fix might be to find out what is the Internet address for
Compuserve is and add it to the local host table.

If anyone knows the address of Compuserve or knows what is really
wrong here, I'll listen.

Thanks,
Dale