HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan)
Subject: disk space 'lost' after file system full
Summary: UUCP traffic caused the / filesystem to become full. Now space is lost.
Keywords: Some disk space has been lost after writng to a full filesystem
Organization: w8hd.org
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 15:13:20 GMT

We operate this machine with little extra space in the disk partition
where the UUCP spool areas are. The machine ran out of space in the /
filesystem due to a failure of a machine to poll this site.
Eventually the poll happened and things appeared to be otherwise normal
except that there is space missing in / about equal to the amount in the
particular spool directory when the machine was discovered in the  
'filesytem full' state.
I've tried running fsck and fixed some problems, but can't recover the space.
If anyone has some idea where to go next I would surely appreciate it.
regards
kim culhan
------
kimc@w8hd.org
From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Strange MOTD
Date: 13 Nov 92 00:28:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: db.TOMA.92Nov12192857
Organization: Not bloody likely around here!


   In article 721484101@iiasa, joerg@iiasa.ac.at (Joerg  MESSER) writes:
   >  I recently found the following strangeness in the /etc/motd
   >file on one of our machines. Does anyone know it all means?
   > [contents of motd deleted]

   Perhaps, on a related note: has anyone noticed that /etc/rc.local does
   a 'chmod 666 /etc/motd'?  Nice move, Sun.  I definitely want joe_random_user
   to write funny little login messages on motd....

   - Steve Johnson, Systems Manager, Dept of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
     Steve.Johnson@math.tamu.edu



Perhaps deleting this, and doing a chmod 400 on /etc/motd would keep
/etc/mtab out?




--
toma@tc.cornell.edu - Rory Toma

Opinionated and tunnel-visioned? Darn right. But then, my employer really
doesn't know what I'm talking about anyway...
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: makovsky@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (MAKOFSKY,STEVEN)
Subject: Zmodem for Sun
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    
Organization: Southern Connecticut State University - Computer Center
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:12:00 GMT

Can anyone point me in the right direction where I can get Zmodem for 
the sun? Thanks 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: searsk@med.ge.com (Kevin Sears)
Subject: High Speed Serial Patch
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: GE Medical Systems
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 21:04:14 GMT

Many times I've seen the discussion come up regarding high speed modems and
Suns serial port problems.
The following patch can be purchased from Sun Consulting(415-336-2400).

(quoted from installation notes)

CONSULT-HSPEED version 1.3

Sun UNIX releases supported: 4.0 4.0.1 4.0.3 4.1 4.1.1
Workstations models supported: sun3 sun4 sun386 sun3x sun4c

This special consists of a streamlined, low-overhead STREAMS module that
provides reliable input at
speeds up to 38.4 Kbps over any Sun serial RS-232 port.

The STREAMS module supports open(), close(), read(), write() and select()
system calls.

This special provides only raw character input to a user process. No
canonical processing, newline, 
carriage return or uppercase conversion is performed on the input stream.

Kevin D. Sears
GE Medical Systems
searsk@med.ge.com
(insert disclaimer here)
(insert funny here)
(insert wisdom here)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: szymon@uci.agh.edu.pl (Szymon Sokol)
Subject: Re: what is prestoserve??
Organization: University Of Mining and Metallurgy
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 18:25:50 GMT

>Steven Fenger (svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil) wrote:
>: >>>	4/690m (data server for ~130 workstations and 300 users)
>: >>>	12 1.2Gb IPI drives
>: >>>	3 IPI Panther disk controllers 
>: >[...]
>: >There is (at least =) a minor problem with the PrestoServe accelerators,
>: >you can only accelerate those disk drives that are on the same bus as the
>: >PrestoServe accelerator, i.e. you need the VME board. We tried to accelerate
>: >additional SCSI disks on a 4/670 which lead to server crashes when mounting
>: >the devices. I didn't find a single note in the release notes about this.
>: 
>: Not entirely true.  We have a SBus PrestoServe running with our IPI
>: disks in a 690.  However,  you should get a VME PrestoServe anyway,
>: since the PS can then do DMA transfers to your IPI controllers.

Well, we just ordered a 690MP with IPI disks and sBus Prestoserve...
Do you think it was an error, i.e. we should rather buy VME Prestoserve?
How big is the difference in performance?
Also, can anyone compare performances of IPI-based and SCSI-2-based disks?
TIA,

                                   Szymon Sokol
                                   Network Manager

     U     U  M     M  M     M     Computer Center
     U     U  MM   MM  MM   MM     University of Mining and Metallurgy
     U     U  M M M M  M M M M     ave. Mickiewicza 30
     U     U  M  M  M  M  M  M     30-059 Krakow, POLAND
     U     U  M     M  M     M     TEL.    +48 12 338100 EXT. 2885
      UUUUU   M     M  M     M     TEL/FAX +48 12 338907

     "The reward of a thing well done is to have done it"  -- Emerson
From: droberts@bdmserver.mcl.bdm.com (David Roberts)
Subject: Looking for acct creation script or prog
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 14:56:18 GMT
Organization: BDM International
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin

Hello,
Does anyone know of a good shell script or program that will assist with
creating accts on a unix machine. I find myself sending alot of time
setting
up accts and had heard that there are such programs. I am looking for
something
that is public domain and easy to modify, but would be interested in
hearing about other solutions.

																																														Thanks in advance.

P.S Please reply to the address below.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
David Roberts
BDM International
McLean, Va
droberts@mcl.bdm.com
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: number of windows
Date: 7 Nov 92 21:57:09 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>- Is there a system variable for the possible number of open
> files/windows?

There is, but it's not the one you want to increase here.

The one you want to increase here is the *per-process* number of open
files (windows require at least one file descriptor).

"Too many open file" corresponds to the EMFILE error, which is the error
returned when you run out of per-process file descriptors.

"File table overflow" corresponds to the ENFILE error, which is the
error returned when you run out of system-wide file table entries.

(The per-process file descriptor table is indexed by the file descriptor
number, and contains pointers to "file table entries".  If the first
table is full, you get EMFILE; if the second table is full, you get
ENFILE.)

>- Can this error be handled internally (by the application)?

Handled?  Probably not conveniently; once it happens, it may be painful
to recover.

Staved off?  Quite possibly, if you're running SunOS 4.1 or later (which
you are, as you have SS2's and SS10's); i.e., you can probably prevent
it from happening in the first place.

> If yes, how?

By bumping the "soft limit" on per-process open files.  It's a limit
like the other "resource limits", read by "getrlimit()", and set by
"setrlimit()".  The limit is RLIMIT_NOFILE:

GETRLIMIT(2)              SYSTEM CALLS               GETRLIMIT(2)

	...

     RLIMIT_NOFILE       one more than the maximum value that the
                         system  may  assign  to  a newly created
                         descriptor.  This limit  constrains  the
                         number of descriptors that a process may
                         create.

so just get the soft and hard limits for RLIMIT_NOFILE with
"getrlimit()", and set the soft limit to the hard limit with
"setrlimit()".

This should work under SunOS 5.x as well.  In fact, it should work under
*ANY* SVR4-based system, not just SunOS 5.x (although most SVR4-based
systems don't support SunView, and even SunOS 5.x only supports it in a
limited binary-compatibility mode; X11, and various X11-based toolkits,
are the Wave of the Future there).
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:8103 comp.sys.sun.apps:2429
From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: newsprint 1.x/2.0
Date: 9 Nov 92 16:29:41 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <br.pct.5.721092406@RLG.Stanford.EDU> br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C. Tam) writes:
<
<
<  newsprint 1.x/2.0 always leaves trash files under /usr/spool/SPARCprinter
<  directory, named 0, and 1. They are of 900k bytes size.
<
<  I want to know is:
<
<  Am I configuring it wrong to make it that way ?
<  How to automatically dispose of these files?
<
<  THANKS FOR ANY TIPS!!!!

As I understand it, those are the rasterizing work files.  They will never go
away.  If you remove them, they will just return the next time you print.
-- 
harvard\
  ucbvax!uwvax!astroatc!ftms!brown  or  uu2.psi.com!ftms!brown
rutgers/
INTERNET: brown@wi.extrel.com  or  ftms!brown%astroatc.UUCP@cs.wisc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kalwa@sunslc.imw.tu-clausthal.de (Ralf Kalwa)
Subject: Re: yppasswdd and expire - problem
Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:06:06 GMT

Ignatios Souvatzis (ignatios@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de) wrote:
: After expiring a few user's passwords (too easy guessable), it was no
: longer possible to change them with yppasswd. Is this a know problem
: with SunOS 4.1.1's passwd/yppasswd/yppasswdd programs?

The NIS password daemon, yppasswdd, doesn't work when password aging
is enabled. I think yppasswdd is not able to strip the aging part from
the password field. :-(
So, you have to drop NIS if you want to use password aging.
NIS+ in Solaris 2.x should solve the problem.

Ralf
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: anne@maxwell.concordia.ca (Anne Bennett)
Subject:  3/60 memory bug, panic, help!
Reply-To: anne@maxwell.concordia.ca (Anne Bennett)
Organization: Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 17:44:24 GMT

davec@ima.isc.com (Dave Curado) writes:
> I have a Sun 3/60 that has panic'd twice recently, 
> with the same error.  Since the error involved a memory 
> problem, I swapped out the whole 3/60 (leaving just the disks 
> and the monitor...)  This computer is our newsserver, so it's 
> working pretty hard.  It's also in a nicely (Brrr!) air conditioned 
> room.  I know this is a long shot, because I only have a little 
> info to provide, but has anyone seen this before?
> 
> ---- taken from /var/adm/messages -----
> 
> Nov 11 09:44:47 dogfish vmunix: 
> Memory Error Register d1<INTR,INTENA,CHECK,ERR00> d1<INTR,INTENA,CE_ENA,CE>
> 
> Nov 11 09:44:47 dogfish vmunix: 
> DVMA = 0, context = 6, virtual address = fc50a98
> 
> Nov 11 09:44:47 
> dogfish vmunix: pme = f200056b, physical address = ad6a98
> 
> Nov 11 09:44:47 dogfish vmunix: panic: unknown memory error
> 
> --------------- end log -----

I had a very similar problem with my 3/160 last week-end: it crashed with
the same error, though of course different numbers for the Memrory Error
Register, context, and addresses.  A call to Sun revealed that this is a
known problem, under bug report #1020064, and it indicates a bad memory
board.  The solution is to swap the memory, or, in the case of the 3/160,
the entire motherboard including the memory.

-- 
Ms. Anne Bennett          anne@maxwell.concordia.ca           (514) 848-7606
Computing Services C-1012, Concordia University, Montreal QC, Canada H3G 1M8
(Administrator for Concordia University mail relay, news transfer, and DNS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: File Manager V3 doesn't tell you everything!
From: montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 22:40:28 GMT
Organization: Unversity of Cincinnati, ECE Dept
Keywords: OpenWindows Filemanager Bug


Hi.

You may need to install the filemgr Jumbo patch.

Here is the README.

Patch-ID# 100462-06
Keywords: filemgr, jumbo, patch
Synopsis: OpenWindows V3: File Manager CTE Jumbo Patch.
Date: 16/Apr/92

SunOS release: 4.1.x

Unbundled Product: OpenWindows

Unbundled Release: 3.0

Topic: OW 3.0 File Manager CTE Jumbo Patch Release 06

BugId's fixed with this patch: 1086418 1069592 1070935 1073659 1079554 1075050

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun4

Patches which may conflict with this patch: 

Obsoleted by: 

Files included with this patch: 

25004   288 filemgr 

Problem Description: 

This patch needs be installed in conjunction with the XView library patch 100452

This jumbo patch fixes the following new bugids :
1069592 filemgr - will not display contents of selected folder
1070935 filemgr Custom Commands do not work unless file is selected
1073659 moving a file to a read-only folder will delete original file
1079554 File Manager does not prompt for shelltool when executing script
1075050 Wastebasket icon incorrectly positioned when filemgr started
1086418 provide a method of running filemgr without using the classing engine


Install Instructions: 

        1) cd to $OPENWINHOME/bin/xview
        2) su to root
        3) get patch id from the currently installed filemgr by typing
                strings filemgr | grep 'Patch Id'
        4) if patch_id exists type
                mv filemgr filemgr.patch_id_123456_89
                where patch_id_123456_89 is recorded from step #3
           else
                mv filemgr filemgr.30fcs
        5) cp patched filemgr to filemgr
        6) chmod 755 filemgr
        7) restart all file managers that are running

	One will need to start filemgr with -C option in order
	not to use Classing Engine. The same effect can be achived
	by setting following resource:
		deskset.filemgr.useClassingEngine: false


-- 
Rob Montjoy                   		- Rob.Montjoy@UC.Edu
Computer Engineer    	      		- montjoy@ucbeh.BITNET
University of Cincinnati      		- montjoy@babbage.ece.uc.edu
Electrical and Computer Engineering	- uunet!uceng!rmontjoy

--  To Save the Earth. The Humans must die.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan)
Subject: Re: High Speed Serial Patch
Organization: w8hd.org
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 22:39:30 GMT

cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil) writes:

>>Kevin D. Sears, GE Medical Systems, searsk@med.ge.com writes:
>>Many times I've seen the discussion come up regarding high speed modems and
>>Suns serial port problems. The following patch can be purchased from
>>Sun Consulting.
>>CONSULT-HSPEED version 1.3
[stuff deleted]
>I just called Sun Consulting on this (1-800-225-4449). They want $950/cpu (!!!)
>for this patch, $2850 for 10, & $5700 for a site license!  All for software
>that should have been there in the first place (or at least in 4.1).  Moreover,
>it's still the zs serial port, so ``if you type or use the mouse during a
>transfer [at 38.4 kps], characters will probably be dropped.''  Yuck.
>---
>Gerald Cecil cecil@wrath.physics.unc.edu  919-962-7169 
>Physics & Astronomy, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA

What with the expense associated with 'solutions' like the above, I contacted
a manufacturer of async serial S-bus expansion boards.
It turns out you can get a board with 2 async ports (either RS-449 or 232)
which will run at 115.2 kbps _plus_ a centronics port for $325.
Why would anyone want to mess around with a ~$1K patch?
Yuck is right.
regards
kim culhan
------
kimc@w8hd.org
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour for SUN's telnet ?
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:20:16 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>In trying out this experiment, I came across some interesting behavior with
>xterm in X11R5. All I do is simply say..
>
>unsetenv TERM
>telnet
>
>And then when I hit a space to type the rest of the line (localhost), the
>xterm just disappears. No error messages, no nothing.

Does that happen with any other terminal emulator (e.g., a different
version of "xterm", such as the X11R4 or Open Windows version, or a
"shelltool" or "cmdtool" or whatever)?

Does it happen if you use a different *shell*?

If:

	1) you're using a shell that does file name completion,
	   command-line editing, etc. and that requires "termcap" or
	   "terminfo" to do that, and thus may require TERM to be set;

	2) that shell, when you indicate that you're done typing the
	   command-name token, tries to do some operation that requires
	   TERM to be set;

	3) that shell, when it tries to do some operation that requires
	   TERM to be set, and TERM isn't set, blows chow;

the problem may not be that "xterm" is disappearing, but that the shell
*running* in the "xterm" is disappearing.

Alternatively, the shell could, when it tries to do that operation, be
sending out something that causes the "xterm" to die.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: gam@sun_jimh.mentorg.com (Gary Merrick)
Subject: hardware flow control question
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1992 01:42:40 GMT
Organization: mentor
Keywords: 
Followup-To: 

I am having difficulty getting my modem and Sun 4/330 talking
to each other with hardware flow control enabled. It works
fine using XON/XOFF, but as soon as I initialize the port
(in gettytab) with ms=crtscts, and set the modem for hardware
flow control, I lose connectivity.

Since it's kinda hard to tell what's going on with the modem,
I tried replacing it with a dumb terminal that also supports
hardware flow control (for testing purposes). Same problem.

Please excuse me if I am somewhat naiive when it comes to
RS232 details, but I couldn't resist checking things out with
my break-out box. I've found that the two devices will
communicate with each other ONLY when pin 8 (CD) is disabled.
What does this indicate?

Not surprisingly, doing a long directory listing across this
connection results in strange output. If I am not mistaken,
it would be a bad idea to attempt running without the Carrier
Detect, as it pretty much defeats the purpose of using hardware
flow control. Am I correct?

Can somebody tell me how I can get these devices communicating
using HFC?

Thanks in advance,

Gary
From: svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Steven Fenger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: pty bug fix for 4.1.3?
Date: 7 Nov 92 16:45:22 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Nov5.202925.13750@afterlife.ncsc.mil> cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Chris A. Wilcox) writes:
>In article <1992Nov5.010756.21667@babbage.ece.uc.edu> montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov4.202415.11999@smab.se> hans@smab.se (Hans C Larsson) writes:
>>>cawilco@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Chris A. Wilcox) writes:
>>>
>problem statement deleted...
>
>>I thought this fix was integrated into 4.1.3.
>>Are you sure you not just seeing the old problem of cmdtool
>>or xterm not cleaning out its old entries in /etc/utmp.
>>
>>When you do a "w" command are all the processes in question
>>'-'(dashes) or blank? If so xterm or cmdtool are not
>>cleaning up properily.
>
>That is indeed the case I am seeing. As a casual browser of this
>newsgroup, I probably missed the discussion on this behavior of
>shelltools. What is not being cleaned up, and if it's an old
>problem, why hasn't Sun fixed it? Enquiring minds want to know.

I have noticed that if you specifically type "exit" in a cmd/shelltool,
/etc/utmp IS cleaned-up.  So maybe the cmd/shelltool dies in such a way
that the underlying shell doesn't have a chance to clean up.
-- 
Steven Fenger    fenger@cps.msu.edu    svfenge@afterlife.ncsc.mil
What for you bury me in the cold, cold ground?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au (Peter N Lewis)
Subject: Backup system?
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: NCRPDA, Curtin University
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 00:54:16 GMT

Hi All,

I need to sort out backing up my unix box to a 5Gig tape drive.  Now, the
unix box only has a couple hundred Meg stored on it, so it should really be
able to basically backup to one tape forever (obviously, I'll want to
switch tapes every now and then to get a longer term backup).  Probably all
I need to do is get it to do a full backup every week (or two or four), and
an incremental backup during the week.  So what's a nice simple way of
getting this set up.

I'm also interested in any ideas on how to backup my macs on the network to
the tape drive.  I know about Macdump, which dumps the mac HDs to the Sun's
HDs, and then they get backed up as per normal, but I'm wondering about a
more direct to tape method.  I can write any TCP code required on the Mac
end, but I'm not too clued in on how to use the tape drive for this sort of
thing on the Sun's end.  If anyone has any ideas on this score I'd be
interested to hear them.

Thanks for any ideas,
   Peter.

_______________________________________________________________________
Peter N Lewis, NCRPDA, Curtin University       peter@cujo.curtin.edu.au
GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6001, AUSTRALIA              Ph: +61 9 368 2055
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:8076 comp.sys.sun.apps:2419
From: matthew@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Matthew Stier - Sun NC Development Center)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: newsprint 1.x/2.0
Date: 9 Nov 1992 15:15:31 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: troi.east.sun.com

In article <br.pct.5.721092406@RLG.Stanford.EDU> br.pct@RLG.Stanford.EDU (Peter C. Tam) writes:
>
>  newsprint 1.x/2.0 always leaves trash files under /usr/spool/SPARCprinter
>  directory, named 0, and 1. They are of 900k bytes size.
>

These are not really "trash" files.  They are buffer files into which NeWSprint
renders the image.  There are two of them so NeWSprint can do  double buffering.
(NeWSprint renders into one, while it is printing from the other.)

I recommend just leaving them alone.  They will reserve the diskspace for
the next print job.  I have heard that it is possible to reconfigure
NeWSprint to use only one buffer, but then you incur additional print time
while NeWSprint serializes rendering and printing.

-- 
Matthew Lee Stier                          |
Sun Microsystems ---  RTP, NC  27709-3447  |     "Wisconsin   Escapee"
Email: matthew.stier@East.Sun.COM          |
Phone: (919) 469-8300 fax: (919) 460-8355  | 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rsnow@rice.edu (Robert Snow)
Subject: network backup script for Exabyte in comp.lang.perl
Summary: network backup script for Exabyte in comp.lang.perl
Keywords: perl
Organization: Rice University
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 01:02:41 GMT

I have posted a script for backing up a network onto a Exabyte 8500.
it is in comp.lang.perl.

rsnow@proton.rice.edu
From: mike@chtm.eece.unm.edu (Mike Lang)
Subject: rsh and rcp trouble(Where are you?)
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:56:18 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Distribution: usa

When I try to do a rcp from one sun to another I always get
Where are you?
back and the file isn't copied.  I've tried fully quailified
names.

My rhosts file has the other machine name in it.
DNS and NIS are running.  Whats messed up??

	Thanks!


--
Mike Lang					mike@chtm.eece.unm.edu
Systems Mangler(I mean manager) 		(505)-277-3317  (x0770)
Center for High Technology Materials		University of New Mexico
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