HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: epo@cbnewsf.cb.att.com (elliot.p.olschwang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: vt220 emulator
Keywords: vt220 emulator openwindows sun
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:26:43 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: AT&T

I am looking for a vt220 emulator that will run on top of openwindows.  If you
know where I can get one please send me e-mail at

epo@mrspock.att.com.

Please do not respond to this posting.

Thank you,

Elliot Olschwang
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Disk Drive Benchmark Testing !!!
Organization: Private UUCP, Martin Cracauer, Norderstedt, Germany
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 09:46:27 GMT

randyb@boi.hp.com (randy barbour) writes:


> Is anyone aware of a "unix" based benchmark test,( preferably used
>by SUN, but doesn't have to be ) used to evaluate disk drives?

A very good benchmark for disks is 'bonnie'. But it is no industrie
standard. There were several postings with results to comp.benchmarks
a while ago.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcguire@selway.umt.edu (Charles J McGuire)
Subject: Re: ROOT/SWAP on other subnet
Organization: University of Montana
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 22:01:52 GMT

In article <1h5378INNjdb@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> km@mathcs.emory.edu writes:
>Is there any way to get a diskless Sun to get its boot and swap off a
>Sun on a different subnet (bootparam itself is no problem).
>
>Actually, we do this all the time where the other subnet is behind a
>cisco router. The cisco can be made to proxyarp for the remote subnet.
>
>The problem is the case where a Sun with two ethernet cards is acting
>as the router. I don't see how to make the Sun proxyarp for machines on
>its other subnet. ("arp -s ip-addr routers-ether public" is a disaster,
>since there is apparently only one arp table for both interfaces).
>
>
>---
>Ken Mandelberg      | km@mathcs.emory.edu          PREFERRED
>Emory University    | {rutgers,gatech}!emory!km    UUCP 
>Dept of Math and CS | km@emory.bitnet              NON-DOMAIN BITNET  
>Atlanta, GA 30322   | Phone: Voice (404) 727-7963, FAX 727-5611
>
I believe gated will let you do the proxy arp.

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( Research Sys Mgr             |       Fax   : (406) 243-4076             )
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: sater@cs.vu.nl (Hans van Staveren)
Subject: Interop between 4.1.3 and Solaris 2.1: shadow passwords
Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 16:12:50 GMT

I do not want to distract from the flamewar about Solaris 2.1, but
while trying to get it interoperating with our 4.1.3 environment I
failed to get shadow passwords to work with the 4.1.3 YPserver.

We tried in the nsswitch.conf file both the 'files nis' and the 'compat'
ways of working, but from looking at some strings in shared libraries
and doing a 'truss' on a login process I get the strong suspicion that
there is no way to get this to work without creating a /etc/shadow file
on 2.1 containing all our passwords.

I hope I am doing something wrong. The answerbook is totally silent about
interoperating at this level.

Any hints from Solaris guru's? Do they already exist(the guru's)?

	Hans van Staveren
	Vrije Universiteit
	Amsterdam
	Holland
From: thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: FAQ: Sun Computer Administration Frequently Asked Questions
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 23:36:02 PST
Organization: The Portal System (TM)

In article <comp-sys-sun-admin_725673375@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Rob Montjoy) writes:

|  [...]
|  		Perl-4 patchlevel 35  
|  		Ghostscript 2.4 or above
|  		GSpreview 2.1   or above  or Ghostview 1.3   or above
|  
|  		All of these are available from prep.ai.mit.edu. They are 
|  		located in the /pub/gnu directory.

OK.

|  [...]
|  	Note: Source code for the Xview toolkit and MIT X11R5 are
|  	      available from prep.ai.mit.edu. 
|  [...]

Oh oh; try export.lcs.mit.edu (in /contrib/xview3 and /pub/R5, respectively)

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com, thad@cup.portal.com ]
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: gord%jericho.uucp (Gord Wait)
Subject: Probs with multiple NFS mounts
Organization: S-MOS Systems, Inc. (Vancouver Design Center)
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 18:59:37 GMT


I have noticed lately that some of our NFS clients seem to be
able to mount the same filesystem over and over again, so that
when you run "df" or "mount" they report several mounts of the same
filesystem!

IE after bootup client jericho shows

tower:/home on /home type nfs (rw,soft,intr,bg)

If I mess with fstab, and do a mount -a to update, I get

tower:/home on /home type nfs (rw,soft,intr,bg)
tower:/home on /home type nfs (rw,soft,intr,bg)

Whats going on? df reports double mounted stuff as well. This never
used to happen! Is it a real problem, or should I ignore it?

client is a sparc 1, OS 4.1.1, servers are a 4/330 OS 4.1.3, and a
sparc 2 OS 4.1.3

Any clues are appreciated!

-- 
Gord Wait 	SMOS Systems Vancouver Design Centre
uunet!jericho!gord
gord%jericho@uunet.uu.net

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Randy Witlicki <rw@surgicad.com>
Subject: Automatic mail encryption programs?
Organization: Computer Science, Indiana University
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 14:46:22 -0500 (EST)

  I am looking for a mail encryption system (public key
or whatever) for individual encryption on an as-desired
basis. Individual mailbox files should be encrypted with
a per-user password. The encryption system should be totally
based on encryption keys and not on any file system protection.
  Many of our users use Sun`s mailtool so a decryption hack
or frontend is probably needed.
  Any information about ftp-able or commercial products
would be greatly appreciated.

- Randy Witlicki   rw@surgicad.com
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Mail - lost !!
Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:48:18 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sparc84.cs.tamu.edu


We have a network of Sun workstations which are connected
to a Sun server.  All the workstations have their own disks.

Yesterday, the server could not create processes for a certain
duration (something like 2 hours) and nobody noticed it because
file service was still available.  During this time, we lost
many mails sent to users within our computer system.  It is
understandable that the server could not deliver the mails
because it could not create new processes.  But, I believed
that the workstations should have preserved a copy of the
mails until they received acknowledgement that the mail has
been successfully sent.  But there is nothing preserved on the
workstations.

Do you know how this could have happened and how it can be
avoided in the future ?

Thanks a lot for your suggestions.

Suresh
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From: mesm@netcom.com (Mary E. S. Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Bootp Help
Date: 28 Dec 92 22:35:03 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

saint@eeup1 (Ming-Jer Lee) writes:
: 
: Dear netters,
: 
:   I use sun 630mp(sunos4.1.2) to be a bootp server, it works fine. But recently
: there is a message 'Hardware Address xxxxxxxxxxxx not found in bootp table'. In
: fact,  the bootp server services only 50 diskless PCs  and the hardware address 
: is not belong to those PCs.
: 
:   I add the entry to the bootp table,  so that the bootp daemon doesn't produce
: the message again. But when I remove that entry, the same message appear again.
: That is, there is one machine always send bootp request, but I can't find which
: device sends the bootp request.  The  message repeats 1000+ times per day in my
: /var/adm/messages. Can someone help me?
: 
: --
: saint@mail.ncku.edu.tw
: 
: National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Once the system appears to be up and working (I realize you don't
know which one it is) you can use the arp -a command to find
out what the IP address is that is associated with this hardware
address, or you should be able to check the /etc/ethers or ethers from
NIS - aka YP. 

--
Mary E. S. Morris    |  The future exists first in imagination, then
mesm@netcom.COM      |  in will, then in reality. -- Galivan Burwell
=====================================================================
Netcom - Online Communication Services San Jose, CA
From: dustin@miki.pictel.com (Dustin Clampitt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Resetting system/netstat counter values???
Date: 23 Dec 92 20:16:17 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: PictureTel Corporation


I wanna run netstat, record the data and then reset the
counter(s) to zero.  

Anyone done this?  There's gotta be a way.


Thanks,

Dustin

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx)
Subject: Re: Xterminals and DNS question..
Reply-To: db@sunbim.be
Organization: BIM n.v. Everberg Belgium
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:24:15 GMT

ricky@FibHaifa.com (Ricardo <Ricky> Marek) writes:
>How can I make the X-terminals recognice names in place of IP numbers
>as host-names, without running DNS (Domain Name Services or BIND)?..
>
>The stage:
>   - Dozens of NCD Xterminals (17c and 19), booting from a 
>     SPARCStation 4/40 (IPC) called `vivaldi'.
>   - We **don't** use DNS but NIS (Yellow Pages..).
>
>In the past these Xterminals recogniced names in place of IP addresses,
>`vivaldi' was a NIS Master server for it's own domain (called `facs') and we
>didn't use DNS.
>
>When `vivaldi' has become a Slave NIS server for other domain (`fibronics')
>and `facs' domain was removed.. the Xterminals didn't want to recognice names..

NCD terminals can use either IEN-116 or DNS for name server. Not NIS.

The good part is every Sun has an IEN-116 server builtin. It is in.tnamed (note
the "t") and is configured from /etc/inetd.conf. By default it is enabled.
If you want to use that, make sure the NCD's are configured to use IEN116
not DNS.

Whether or not your Sun is a NIS master server, NIS slave server, or NIS client,
or unrelated to NIS doesn't matter.
My guess is you accidently removed something else as well when you changed
NIS.

You can also have your Sun be a DNS server for the NCD terminals. This does
NOT imply that the sun needs to use DNS itself. Setting up a DNS server is
a not-so-trivial task. I can post or mail how to do that if anybody is
interested. (In January... today is the last active/sober day of the year
for me.)

--
	Danny Backx
	System Engineer

E-Mail: db@sunbim.be    (or uunet!mcsun!ub4b!sunbim!db)

Telephone: +32(2)759.59.25	Fax : +32(2)759.47.95

Postal Mail :
	Danny Backx
	BIM
	Kwikstraat 4
	3078 Everberg
	Belgium
From: jhazen@cam.nist.gov (Jonathan Hazen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: deciphering printcap fc,fs,xc,xs fields
Date: 24 Dec 92 20:37:25 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

Does anyone know how to decipher the fc,fs,xc, and xs fields 
in /etc/printcap?

The values these fields have in my printcap file are:

        :fc#0000374:fs#0000003:xc#0:xs#0040040:

Thanks,
Jonathan
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9854 comp.unix.solaris:448
From: devil@HellNet.org (Gil Tene)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Solaris 2.1 problems with >1GB disks?
Date: 1 Jan 93 05:38:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Diablery, cloud seven, Hell. (also 10A Inc.)

Does Solaris 2.1 have some problem with >1GB disks???

I am trying to load Solaris 2.1 from the distribution CDROM 
to a Toshiba MK-538FB, 1.2GB (formatted) disk on a new LX. 

************************************************************
*** This same disk formats and checks out fine on an IPC ***
*** running 4.1.2 at a capacity of 1170MB !!!            ***
************************************************************

The symptoms are as follows :

When using the Solaris 2.1 format, it is not possible to 
write the paritition table and label in without getting error 
messages, unless the capacity is <=1GB. 

After defining a disk type with >1GB, loading 2.1 from the
CDROM works Ok (and takes 1:10 hours), but then Solaris won't
boot right from the disk, and keeps trapping at boot, saying 
that the label is corrupt, and that the label claims the disk
has xxxx (xxxx>2101018) blocks while the drive says it has 
only 2101018 blocks.

If I format the drive as <=1GB and install Solaris 2.1, it 
also doesn't work at boot, but this time it traps after
scsi phase errors, not saying anything about block numbers.

Any ideas? Is it the 1GB limit? Is it this specific drive model?
Could it be some SCSI thingy having to do with a SCSI difference
between the LX and the IPC?

AdvThanks,

-- Gil.
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From: rdoty@rastaban.usc.edu (Richard Doty)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: how to make AnswerBook search database?
Date: 28 Dec 1992 23:55:46 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: rastaban.usc.edu

I'm trying to build a local AnswerBook and am just shy of a complete
solution: I don't know how to make the files that go in sr_index.

Has anyone figured out how to generate the search key database?  I'm
stumped.

TIA,

Richard Doty
rdoty@usc.edu
From: mul@ira.uka.de (Peter Mul)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: How to use a WangDAT 3200 on my SUN
Date: 21 Dec 1992 13:39:39 GMT
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: i61s3.ira.uka.de

Hey fellow administrators and others.

Does somebody knows how to use a WangDAT drive on a SUN
At the moment I use it without any modification of the kernel
by using rst1 (drive has scsi number 5)

Probably i use this way not all the features of the DAT drive,
I could add an entry in the /sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c, could i????

Can I use this drive also from a Macintosh??

Greetings from
Peter Mul
University of Karlsruhe
mul@ira.uka.de
From: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Format of aging entries in /etc/passwd
Date: 31 Dec 1992 16:00:11 GMT
Organization: Her Master's Voice
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dclunie@pax.tpa.com.au
NNTP-Posting-Host: britt.pax.tpa.com.au

I have been playing about with password aging (SunOS 4.1.2) and would be
intersted to hear if anyone knows exactly what the format of what comes
after the ',' in the password field of the /etc/passwd file. I know that
",." implements immediate expiry, but I would like to know the rest. My
experiments haven't generated an obvious pattern (obvious to me anyway :) ).

I presume this is all different in Solaris 2 !

david
From: ssurgui@ucdacm.denver.colorado.edu (Scott Surguine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Paging via Tip
Date: 22 Dec 92 19:27:25 GMT


I saw an interesting post a few days ago regarding:

How to have your System Page you when trouble arises.

I only briefly caught the discussion but now find it to be a very 
interesting concept.

How is this achieved via Tip?

Thanks in advance for any help on this!!!

--Scott
From: etosaa@billingstad1.ericsson.no (Stein Aarum )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Mouse for SUN workstations
Keywords: mouse SUN
Date: 23 Dec 92 07:53:19 GMT
Reply-To: etosaa@billingstad1.ericsson.no (Stein Aarum )
Organization: Ericsson A/S

Hi

I've tried for a long time now to find someone who manufacture different
types of
mouse systems for SUN workstations but without luck. So far Logitech is
the only one but
they have only 1 or 2 different types. 

The reason for this question is that in our department we have a lot of
personens 
suffering from RSI including myself, and we need some 
alternative mouse or keyboards for the SUN workstations since that is
what we use.


Stein
From: ericb@ursula.ee.pdx.edu (FurryLogic)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Ubiquitous resolver-into-libc replacement question
Date: 27 Dec 92 09:27:34 GMT
Article-I.D.: newsgate.1hjsu6INNfvr
NNTP-Posting-Host: ursula.ee.pdx.edu


  Greetings:

  Upgrading Sun 3 to 4.1.1 and want to place the resolver routines into
libc.so... Previous installations consisted of copying library from other
boxen, but now that an upgrade is ocurring, we don't remember the needed
steps. I have the one for Sun 4, but the procedure is apparently different.
Anyone have this on hand? Thanks.

-e.b.

--
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  Computer Action Team      |    OS/2 is irrelevant. Openness is futile.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.questions
From: efroyman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Ella Froyman)
Subject: SCSI port
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 17:51:24 GMT


Hi Netters,

My previous question was not the right one to ask.

We have four SPARC10's that we are going to set up as file servers.
They come with one SCSI port, and we have added another via an SBUS
card. We also have up to 9 devices per machine, i.e. CD/ROM, external
disks, tape drives.

How do we attach them all. I was told that Sun has an addressing scheme
that allows up to 15 devices per SCSI port. Do we daisy chain them all
off one port? Do we split them up between the two ports, i.e. 4 on one
and 5 on the other? Does one of the SCSI ports take precedence over the
other?

please reply to my E-mail. Thanks



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: dial-in modem setup
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 23:31:49 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.230204.4084@w8hd.org> kimc@w8hd.org (Kim Culhan) writes:
>jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams) writes:
>
>>Read the zs man page.  It tells you how to configure the port to dial
>>out without CD asserted using a device with minor number 128 greater
>>than the corresponding /dev/tty*
>
>This *is* the way I have the port configured.
>The port will dial out fine but if you don't do as I described, you
>can't see what the modem returns on the console whn running the
>tip program.

No, all you have to do is avoid setting RTS/CTS flow control on until
after you establish a connection.  The combination of low DCD with
clocal unset *and* crtscts set turns off the 8530's receiver.  It's of
somewhat dubious value to turn it on at all on current Suns, since the
chief problem is the modem over-running the Sun's serial port.  Crtscts
does not throttle input.

>I know it will work. Thats why I posted the info on how to do this.
>Also, you don't need to disable echo and result codes :)
>
Possibly... on most systems echo and result codes enabled before opening
and locking the device for output will cause race conditions with getty.

>>You can then set the modem so CD follows carrier.  The built-in locking
>>will prevent getty from opening the corresponding /dev/tty* device when
>>CD goes high on outgoing data calls.
>
>My description included a scheme for setting the modem which involves
>initializing it to allow CD to follow carrier. Whats locking got to do
>with this?

If the device were not locked, getty could open the incoming device
(ttya or ttyd0) when DCD goes high.

>-Did you read my post?

Yes.
>
>>You can put an initialization string in applications such as Kermit that
>>use result codes in order to reset echo and result codes if needed.
>
>Huh?

Same function as cm in /etc/remote.

It appears that both methods will work on Sun systems.







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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: revtek@world.std.com (Jacques A Vanschouwen)
Subject: PowerDrive now available for Sun workstations
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Distribution: all
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 00:19:45 GMT


Revolution Technologies First To Unveil Transparent Low Cost
Disk Compression Software For SPARCr Workstation Users.

NATICK, Mass. -- January 4, 1993 -- Revolution Technologies (tm) today
introduced PowerDriveTM, a software product designed to transparently
increase the file storage capacity of SPARC workstations and servers.
With PowerDrive, users can store more files and applications at much
lower cost than purchasing additional disk drives.

+ DOUBLES DISK DRIVE STORAGE CAPACITY 

The PowerDrive product is intended for users who want to store additional
applications and files on their workstations than would typically fit.
With PowerDrive, files are compressed to 50% of their original size on
average. This significant reduction virtually doubles the drive's storage
capacity.

+ EASY INSTALLATION IN MINUTES

The PowerDrive software installs in minutes and allows the user to
immediately take advantage of the additional disk space. During
PowerDrive installation, existing files on the system are compressed
into the PowerDrive format -- making more room to store new files.
When a file bearing the PowerDrive format is accessed, it is
transparently decompressed for use by the user.  The PowerDrive
software is fully configurable and works easily with all file types
including text files, object files, and executables.

+ IMMEDIATE AVAILABILITY

PowerDrive is available now for the Solaris 1.0 (SunOS 4.1.x) operating
system.  A version for Solaris 2.x will be available in March, 1993.
Revolution Technologies is offering a special introductory price of $99
until March 31, 1993. PowerDrive is available via anonymous FTP at
world.std.COM (192.74.137.5) in the directory pub/revtek.  Download
files powerdrive.tar and powerdrive.README.

PowerDrive can also be ordered by calling Revolution Technologies at
(508) 650-1490 or by sending a FAX request to (508) 655-8860.

Users can try out PowerDrive at no cost for 30 days by obtaining a demo
license from Revolution Technologies.

Revolution Technologies and PowerDrive are trademarks of Revolution
Technologies.  SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc.



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