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From: pava@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Robert S. Unoki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.wanted,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: PC <--> Sun ARP Problems
Date: 23 Jul 92 22:23:20 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Purdue University

I have a PC and a Sparc II.   The Sparc II has an S-Bus Ethernet card
which we are currently using.  The II's AUI port is not being used and
is shut down (via ifconfig le0 down).

The PC is running Beame & Whitesides Packet driver software.  When the
PC is first booted, I often cannot run telnet, ftp, etc.

I ran ping to see what the heck is going on.  It returns:
  ping:  <sparc ip-number> not responding to ARP request
	 
So - I let it run a little longer.  After a number of retries the 
server responds ok. 

Pinging the PC from the Sparc works after which I do not have the above
problem on the PC.  The problem is also resolved by entering the Sparc's
ethernet address into the PC's ether device driver.

I tried pinging an IPC on our network and I have had no problems.

HELP!!!

rob
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From: jpd@tardis.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: CD-rom causing dodisk accounting errors
Keywords: sr0 accounting dodisk
Date: 29 Jul 92 13:24:34 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@tardis.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University


Everyday, I get this msg:

	Your "cron" job

	/usr/lib/acct/dodisk

	produced the following output:

	diskusg: Cannot open /dev/sr0

From mail.  I know it's from accounting, and I can probably ignore it, but I
am looking for a more elagate solution.
Anyone, fix this?

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From: billq@fnal.gov (William R. Quayle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun Floating License for compilers
Keywords: compiler
Date: 31 Jul 92 19:58:35 GMT
Reply-To: billq@pogo.fnal.gov
Organization: Independant Consultant

In article <15bvl9INNl83@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul31.143723.4738@nlm.nih.gov> seamans@nlm.nih.gov writes:
-stuff-
|> >The 15 minute linger is unecessary and a hindrance to the use of the
|> >compiler and development of programs.  There is no mention of the orginal
|> >user being able to re-use the compiler after he releases.
|> 
|> Yes, there is: "The 15 minute linger prevents you from losing access to the
|> compiler...."  That's the whole point of the linger time.  For instance, if
|> the user is running a Makefile or script, after each compilation he retains
|> the license so that the next compilation will work.
|> 

-IMHO-
Question:
In your experience performing builds or compiles, how often do you see a 15
minute lag from one compile to the next?  I have compiled software ranging
from X11R5 to xloadimage, and have *NEVER* seen more than a 3 minute (o.k.,
4, but that's stretching it:-) compile.  (Where compile == individual cc
run.)  My suggestion for the reason is because if linger_time is set to
zero, the license would be nearly useless.

  1- S.A. makes linger=0
  2- user_1 runs make
  3- user_1's make snags the license and kicks off the compile
  4- user_2 starts a make
  5- user_2's make takes the license (with linger=0, you only need the
     license when cc is called!)
      .
      .
      .

right?  Well, it's a guess, anyway.  I would, however, think that an
expire time of something on the order of min_linger=5 would suffice.

-more stuff-

|> ...... If the original user can
|> >re-use the compiler in this 15 minute period, then the queue of other users
|> >can be longer than anticipated until the 15 minute value has been satisfied.
|> 

...and wouldn't a "free_license" button be nice?
			 (ala FrameMaker - great shared license, Frame!:-)

-still more stuff-
|> >IBM.
bad word, don't *ever* want to see that in comp.sys.sun.* again;-)

BTW: I realize this thread was going on hot-n-heavy in comp.something,
so I'm not trying to start it up again.  I just think that:

	a) Shared licenses, when done right, are a boon to the short-on-cash,
  	 but-I-sure-would-like-that-software-types.
  b) When done poorly, get everyone a bit upset.
  c) Should be optional. (No, I think I'd rather just buy 4 licenses for
     my 4 users.)
  d) Cause some really great shareware to be written.



-billq
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pgf@mgn1.mit.edu (Peter G. Ford)
Subject: Re: Remote tape device write/read?
Reply-To: pgf@space.mit.edu
Organization: MIT Center for Space Research
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 18:50:55 GMT

In article <25104@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, jschamba@na35.lbl.gov (Jo Schambach) writes:
> In article <25064@dog.ee.lbl.gov>, jschamba@na35.lbl.gov (Jo
Schambach) writes:
> |> Is it possible to read/write from/to a tape device on a remote
computer? If yes,
> |> how? I saw the man page on "rmt", but didn't understand how this
would help.
> Thank you for all the responses so far. The answers mostly referred me to
> "rdump" and company. I guess I didn't ask the question right.
> What I would like to do, is from a C program I would like to say:
> fd = open("remote_host:/dev/rst0, RW);
> read(fd, ...);
> write(fd,...);

You need a copy of "rmtape", which does precisely what you want,
provided the remote tape server is set up to execute the "/etc/rmt"
daemon.  Either recompile your stuff with '#include "rmt.h"' as
supplied with "rmtape", or, if you don't have access to the gut-level
calls (e.g. you're using Fortran or somebody else's library) and your
system possesses "/usr/include/syscall.h", change the subroutine names
in "rmtlib.c" from "rmtopen()", to "open()", "rmtread()" to "read()",
etc.

I got rmtape from some ftp server (probably "uunet.uu.net", now known
as "ftp.uu.net") several years ago. Here is its README blurb...

> This is the remote mag tape library. It allows a program that uses
> Unix system calls to transparently use a file (usually a tape drive) on
> another system via /etc/rmt, simply by including <rmt.h>.  It is
> particularly useful with tar and dd, and is supplied with GNU tar.
> 
> This package has evolved somewhat over the years.  My thanks to the
> people who did most of the original work, and those who've contributed
> bug fixes; appropriate credit is in the man page and source files.
> 
> Enjoy,
> 
> Arnold Robbins
> Emory U. Computing Center
> arnold@emoryu1.cc.emory.edu
> gatech!emoryu1!arnold
> +1 404 727 7636
From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun Screen Savers
Date: 30 Jul 92 11:54:46 GMT
Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn

In article <1992Jul23.160518.20921@eng.ufl.edu> dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata) writes:
>	We recently got in a shipment of 36 sun workstations, and I'm trying
>to track down a suitable screen blanking utility for them (ELCs and IPXes).  It
>has to be something that can run in rc.local, so it will blank regardless of
>whether or not someone is logged in.
>	The Sun folks have said screenblank should NOT be run in rc.local, and
>should be killed when a person logs out, making it's installation a rather
>pointless gesture at best. 

An entry such as:

console "/usr/local/etc/screensaver console"    sun             on

in /etc/ttytab, and a program (/usr/local/etc/screensaver) which calls up
some pretty screensaver - we use crabs - which exits on a keypress,
then calls getty.

Nice and simple.

Cheers,
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From: wvs@cancer.DIALix.oz.au (W.V. Sharpe (Ore Reserve Geologist LNO))
Subject: Re: (Q) How to copy boot tapes?
Reply-To: wvs@cancer.DIALix.oz.au
Organization: Western Mining Corp.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 92 04:54:50 GMT

Oops, there is something else. I think the 4.1.2 release notes or some SUN documentation tell you how to make a boot floppy. But that probably what you want is it? The boot floppy only contains the bootblock and boot program.

   ,-_|\   Wayne V. Sharpe                 
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       v   wvs@cancer.dialix.oz.au
From: rcaliari@su5v.ess.harris.com (Richard Caliari)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Quick & Dirty Disk Swap
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:50:45 GMT
Organization: Advanced Technology Department, Harris Corporation

I am going to replace a disk/tape subsystem hanggin off of my SLC.
The current disk drive has a capacity of 766 MB while the new drive
will have a capacity of 1.2 GB. What is the easiest way to duplicate
my existing disk onto the larger disk? They both have external SCSI
id switches and QIC-150 tape drives.

Thanks in advance.

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email: rcaliari@su5v.ess.harris.com
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How to use loopback mount on 4.1.2?
Date: 28 Jul 92 19:34:23 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I wonder why sun ship systems without these links installed?

A better question might be "why doesn't Sun ship a system where the
"mount" command forcibly sets its PATH so that it always looks in
'/usr/etc'?"

I.e., the problem is that "mount", for any file system type not in its
built-in set (UFS, NFS, and maybe PCFS), tries to run a program whose
name is constructed by appending an underscore, and the file system type
name, to "mount".  It uses "execlp" to run the program, which means that
if the program isn't in any of the directories in the PATH environment
variable, it won't be found, and "mount" will complain that the file
system type is unknown.

SVR4's "mount" may do a better job of finding that program - they may
have made that the way *all* file system types are mounted - and, if so,
SunOS 5.0 will do a better job.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
Subject: Re: (Q) How to copy boot tapes?
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 16:18:34 GMT

In article <1992Jul30.045314.7512@cancer.DIALix.oz.au> wvs@cancer.DIALix.oz.au writes:
>
>The reason for using tputil is because of the blocking SUN use when
>creating the tapes.

I have successfully copied 1/2" reel media for 4.1.1 to 1/4" 60mb format.
I just dd'd each tapefile to disk, then dd'd them back out to the new
tape.  I think I used blocksize 126 for the 1/4" tape.  I've used the
resulting 1/4" tapes to install several systems.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: marc@aai.com (Marc Cohen)
Subject: sendmail changing Reply To: field
Organization: Amerinex Artificial Intelligence
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 21:07:00 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone tell me how Sun's sendmail handles the "Reply To:" field of
a mail message?  More specifically, how can I tell sendmail to leave the
line alone when calling the uucp mailer?  When I put "Reply To: marc@aai.com" 
(an MX record points to uunet) it gets changed to "aai!aai.com!marc".
What's worse is that if I set the domain name in sendmail.cf to
"aai.com" (we don't run YP) I get "aai!!marc" which makes messages
impossible to reply to.  I've hacked sendmail.cf files a little and
understand how sender and recipient address are manipulated by the 
rulesets, but I don't see what rules apply to "Reply To:".

-Marc
From: dingbaum@nhmpw1.fnal.gov (Jeff Dingbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: screenblank setup
Date: 27 Jul 92 13:38:32 GMT
Reply-To: dingbaum@nhmpw1.fnal.gov
Organization: FERMILAB

look in /etc/rc.local

screenblank is added as the last line on my machines.  You can just 
say screenblank or you can give it a few options ( such as interval 
before you blank the screen).  Look in the man(1) pages.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bailebn@mail.auburn.edu (Bliss Bailey)
Subject: Routing IPX
Keywords: route routed ipx 
Reply-To: bailebn@mail.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 16:54:20 GMT

I have a situation where a number of PC's on one subnet need to get to a
Novell file server on another Sub-net.  Currently, a Sun running routed 
is doing the IP routing.  Is there a way to configure the Sun to route
IPX packets as well?  Or, alternatively, is there another routing
package available which will allow the Sun to route IPX?


Bliss Bailey
Network Support
Auburn University, AL
bailebn@mail.auburn.edu
From: dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sun Screen Savers
Date: 23 Jul 92 16:05:18 GMT
Reply-To: dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu (David Lopata)
Organization: U of Florida. Statistics Dept.

...

	Excuse me if this is FAQ. . .

	We recently got in a shipment of 36 sun workstations, and I'm trying
to track down a suitable screen blanking utility for them (ELCs and IPXes).  It
has to be something that can run in rc.local, so it will blank regardless of
whether or not someone is logged in.

	The Sun folks have said screenblank should NOT be run in rc.local, and
should be killed when a person logs out, making it's installation a rather
pointless gesture at best. 

	The faculty here are not going to bother using xlock through the menus,
but they ARE likely to complain when their screen is burnt to a crisp. . .


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System Manager, Dept. of Statistics	                    UNIX Bonehead 
University of Florida			       "It Worked Yesterday. . ."
From: mjl@ccu.umanitoba.ca (mike london)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: (Q) How to copy boot tapes?
Date: 28 Jul 92 22:26:58 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

I know this subject has been covered before, but I only
caught the tail-end of that discussion. Any pointers
would be much appreciated.

Mike London
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: chris@ods.com (Chris Atkins)
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500 - Dump parameters
Organization: Optical Data Systems, Inc.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 16:11:39 GMT

a_plante@crim.ca (Alain Plante) writes:
: Hello all,
: 
:         We are using Exabyte 8500 with sunOS 4.1.2 My problem is that i'm
: not able to put more than 2.3 gigs of stuff on one tape. I have a few
: scripts and most of them works fine...
: 
:         The parameters i'm using are :
: 
:                 Density : 54000
:                 Tape length : 6000
: 
:         Which one should i use to get the best out of my Exabyte. I'm suppose
: to be able to put around 4.9 gigs on a 8mm tape.
: 
try the following
		Density : 54000
 		Tape length : 13000

Be sure you are using the correct device.  If your tape is unit stn then use
/dev/rstn+8  for example for st0 use device /dev/rst8.

Chris Atkins
chris@ods.com
From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: sun beep... is it changeable?
Date: 30 Jul 92 02:15:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <SHAWN.92Jul29173137@litsun.epfl.ca> shawn@litsun.epfl.ch writes:
>
>I want to change the "beep" of my sun so that it is different
>from the sun across from me. Is there a way of changing the tone
>of the beep to be lower/higher??
>

What beep are you talking about?  If it's the hardware-generated keyboard
beep, there's not much you can do about it, since it's generated by hardware
in the keyboard :-).  Actually, you could write a timer routine to modulate
the keyboard beeper by rapidly toggling it on and off, but the best you
can get using that technique is an unpleasant raspberry-type sound.

If you mean a beep coming from the D/A and speaker inside the CPU box,
such as something generated by the cuckoo clock, you can substitute any
.au file for the cuckoo.  You can get mail notification by making your
.forward file pipe into play, and you can do silly things like aliasing
cd to play boing.au every time you change directories.  Unfortunately,
I know of no way to automatically map all keyboard beeps into play
commands.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Where is SunCore on 4.1.2
From: liuj@physc1.byu.edu
Date: 28 Jul 92 23:03:46 -0600
Distribution: world
Organization: Brigham Young University

Our SPARC station 1 just updated to version 4.1.2. I couldn't run my SunCGI and
SunCore programs. Anyone out there can tell me what's wrong with it. Are they
removed from sunOS 4.1.2?
From: weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Weinrich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help! Patches 100170-06 & 100257-03 cause undef. symbol in ld
Summary: Compile results in "ld: Undefined symbol" & "_dlopen"
Date: 30 Jul 92 20:13:47 GMT
Organization: University of Georgia, Athens

I just installed patches 100170-06 & 100257-03 on my 4/330 running
OS 4.1.1.  Now, as soon as I do something like:
  cc -o ccimake -DNOSTDHDRS -O -I../include ccimake.c
I get:
  ld: Undefined symbol
   __Q_get_rp_rd
   _dlopen
   _dlclose
   _dlsym
   _nl_langinfo
*** Error code 2

I get the exact same set of errors when I try to compile source for
ftp.

Any pointers greatly appreciated.
-Kevin Weinrich
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: popper - Post Office Protocol Server
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:40:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: loiosh.CKD.92Jul23113752
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central

Brian> == Brian Berndt <brian@brazil.psych.purdue.edu> 

 Brian> ld: Undefined symbol 
 Brian>    __res 

Don't define BIND43.  popper uses stuff that isn't in Sun's libresolv,
and that causes it not to compile properly.  (This should probably be
documented in the popper docs, but isn't... sigh.)
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From: lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: warning from 'newfs'
Date: 26 Jul 1992 20:10:45 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.  Mt. View, Ca.
NNTP-Posting-Host: slovax

: When I run newfs on this partition I get the message
: 
: 	"Warning: 1 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated."
: 
: What does this mean? Is this bad or can I ignore it? Should I partition for
: 1 less cylinder (2104)?

Don't worry about it.  The parameters that were used didn't (or couldn't)
match the disk perfectly and it couldn't get the file system to use that
last sector.  So you lost 512 bytes.  No big deal.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Dev Joneja)
Subject: ld.so error on running mailtool
Reply-To: dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Dev Joneja)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:00:56 GMT

On running mailtool (Openwindows 3) I get the following error:
 ld.so: map heap error (9) for /dev/zero

This has just started to come up. Any ideas will be appreciated.
Setup: Sparcstation IPC, SunOS 4.1.1, Openwindows 3.

Thanks. 
-Dev Joneja, dj7@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: grant@bluemoon.rn.com (Grant DeLorean)
Subject: Re: warning from 'newfs'
Organization: Blue Moon
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 01:13:23 GMT

brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:

><When I run newfs on this partition I get the message
><
><	"Warning: 1 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated."
><
><What does this mean? Is this bad or can I ignore it? Should I partition for
><1 less cylinder (2104)?

>Ignore it.  Newfs just tries to use sectors in groupings and one sector was
>left over.  I always have.

 Read the manual, it is explained in the section on format. It has to
do with being partitioned incorrectly, or at least not fully. Go back
and re-edit the partition, and round up to the next cylinder on the
ending block. IE, if you stopped at 1258/5/27, go back and round up
to 1259/0/0 and the unallocated sector(s) go away. The manual, or
the answerbook, will explain this in more detail.

 (I really should have included the F in RTFM, but this wasn't worth
the expletive)

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: resetting pseudo-terminal sizes?
Date: 23 Jul 92 00:41:57 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Say I start a shell
>in a terminal window under a windowing system (X, Openwin or Sunview,
>doesn't matter) and resize the window so that it's 132 colums x 50 lines.
>Say also that this window uses /dev/ttyp3.  Now if exit the shell (an
>hence quit the window, freeing the tty) and then remotely log into the
>system so that my login uses /dev/ttyp3, the terminal size will still
>be set to 132 cols by 50 lines!

Didn't happen for me when I just tried it (SunOS 4.1.1, OW 2.0).

>but I would much prefer having the pseudo-terminal driver 
>(re)size the terminal properly itself.

The pseudo-tty driver can't resize it itself, as it has no idea what the
right size is.  It can only do what the process on the master side tells
it.

Most master sides *will* tell it to resize it.

There may have been a bug, in whatever version of the OS that you're
running, that kept the resize from happening; what version are you
using?
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: wiesel@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Joachim Wiesel Ext. 2316)
Subject: Re: Remote tape device write/read?
Reply-To: wiesel@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de
Organization: IPF, University of Karlsruhe
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:00:28 GMT

If you only want to 'tar' from/to a remote tape -- I recommend
gnu-tar. We use it daily in a mixed hardware environment -- and it works great!

Example:  tar -cvf  REMOTEHOST:/dev/rst8  file(s)

writes a tar-archive to device /dev/rst8 on host REMOTEHOST.
Get it from 'prep.ai.mit.edu'  pub/gnu

Joachim
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From: nicholls@stillcamera.jsc.nasa.gov (nicholls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
Summary: NIS?
Keywords: DNS
Date: 24 Jul 1992 14:48:17 GMT
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX USA

In article <yvent.711983630@theseas> yvent@ntua.gr (Yannis Ventikos) writes:
>
>I have been reading the comp.sys.sun.admin newsgroup for a couple of
>months now ...
>You can do anything you want on a Sun: run NIS or don't, run primary...
>yvent@areti.marinentua.ariadne-t.gr
>yvent@theseas.ntua.gr (news server)

I wouldn't mind setting up NIS if I knew what the heck it was.
I recently did a 'grep NIS /usr/man/man?/*' and came up with
nothing.  If Sun thinks NIS is so great, why isn't it in the manual?

-just fussing...
-bill
nicholls@stillcamera.jsc.nasa.gov
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