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From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
Subject: HelpDesk RPC Error
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 13:46:47 GMT

Has anyone running HelpDesk come across this error?  
After the installation completes and I try to run the Search Tool, I get
"Search error - server timed out" at the bottom.  If I kill the rpc.solved 
and start it in it's own window, I get "rpc.solved: RPC: Unknown host"
from the solved when I start the search.  I've tried all sorts of 
combinations of setting the SUNSOLVESERVER variable before running the 
server and changing the value of it in the helpdesk script, but nothing
seems to change.
Just for the record, I'm running 4.1.3 with NIS and DNS and I have patched
resolver library so NIS uses DNS.

Any pointers would be appreciated, even  if it's just generic RPC suggestions.

Thanks.

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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9794 comp.os.coherent:6505
From: jgreco@solaria.mil.wi.us (Joe Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: eeprom bootdev (Sun 3/60, Sunos 4.1.1)
Date: 21 Dec 92 07:30:20 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI

In comp.sys.sun.hardware article <BETSYS.92Dec20124806@ra.cs.umb.edu>, betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz) wrote:
:I seem to remember a 3/60 complaining about a " " being a bad boot
:device, when someone accidentally flipped the diagnostic switch on...

Yeah, that's probably because "diagdev" isn't set.

When I first beheaded my 3/60LE, I hooked up a dumb terminal to it and 
booted it off of ttyb in diagnostic mode because I didn't want to putz with
settings for a few days.  I nearly flipped when I typed "b" at the monitor
prompt and that message came up, thinking I had a serious problem.

Then calm, rational thought took over.  ;-)

Anyways, 

eeprom diagdev="sd(0,0,0)"

will cause diagnostic mode's default boot device to be something a little
sane.

Speaking of EEPROM, does anybody have the information on configuring the
serial ports for use with the ROM monitor?  The Sun eeprom guide I was
looking at last time I had one of my machines out at Sun listed them, but I
didn't think to copy it.  I'd like to set my headless system to talk at
19200N81 with RTS/CTS handshaking.  If somebody has a list of these eeprom
values/locations, I'd be grateful.

... Joe

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From: str@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu (Sathasivam T Raveendra)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Where is the FAQ?
Date: 29 Dec 92 07:10:05 GMT
Reply-To: str@acsu.buffalo.edu (Sathasivam T Raveendra)
Organization: Department of Computer Science
Originator: str@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu
Posting-Software: pnews (version 1.4)

Could the keeper of the FAQ please send me a copy of it please?
Wouldn't it be a good idea to post it evry other week?
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9651 comp.sys.sun.apps:2841
From: shenton@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov (Chris Shenton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Taylor UUCP hanging -- not timing out
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:33:05 GMT
Organization: Hughes/STX, Lanham, MD

I'm trying to bring up Taylor uucp (v 1.03) on a Sparc and during
testing (uutst) it seems to hang. Trying to connect to a remote system
indicates it's able to negotiate a chat, but if it doesn't get what it
wants, it does *not* seem to time out.

Any ideas? Could it be something to do with the funky serial drivers
in SunOS 4.1? If you've got a Makefile.in and policy.h that work, I'd
like to see 'em.

Thanks.

BTW: I'm using the new config styles -- it gagged on the BNU files I have.
--
-- Chris Shenton    shenton@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov    NASA/GSFC/HSTX 301-286-9430
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: default route for diskless clients
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 15:30:35 GMT

In <1992Dec28.044346.4184@tc.cornell.edu> eirik@elf.TN.Cornell.EDU (Eirik Fuller) writes:

>Empirical observations have led me to the following conclusion:

>The default route for a diskless client is provided by rpc.bootparamd,
>and it chooses the first entry in the kernel's network routing table
>which is on the same subnet as the client.

Yes, in my case it chooses a host route to one of my servers.

>It might also seem trivial to fix this poor choice of default route.
>However, if the client's /usr lives on another subnet, there is a
>chicken-and-egg problem.  The route command, even if copied to the
>root partition, still requires shared libraries, which become
>inaccessible (but are apparently still necessary) after the routing
>table is flushed.

One problem is that `route -f add' does the flush before the add, with
the result that the route to the server is lost.  My solution was to
modify /etc/rc.local so it changes routes more carefully:

#
# Try to add a default route again, now that "/usr" is mounted and NIS
# is running.
#
if [ ! -f /sbin/route -a -f /etc/defaultrouter ]; then
        set - `netstat -n -r | grep default`
        route -n add default `cat /etc/defaultrouter` 1
        if [ `netstat -n -r | grep -c default` -gt 1 ]; then
                route -n delete default $2
        fi
fi

This assumes that /etc/defaultrouter contains the IP address of the
the desired gateway.
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
From: ptanner@crow.eng.stratus.com (Philip Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: backup problem
Date: 29 Dec 1992 12:49:06 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: crow.eng.stratus.com


	Recently I posted a question about a problem I was having
with my backups. Surprisingly I didn't receive any answers on
what to try so I'm re-posting the situation.
	I do backups by mounting filesystems with the following 
mount options to an IPX with a 5GB exabyte tape drive:

	/usr/etc/mount -o intr,ro,retry=2,timeo=100 $system:$file_system

	Then I run tar to dump the filesystem to tape. ( I know tar limits
me to 100 character filenames, etc. and I'm testing alternatives to tar now).
	My problem happens if the machine I'm backing up goes down. The
tar command goes into a disk wait and the sun even hangs up on it. My 
question is this: Would mounting the filesystem soft help here? Is there
another approach which would fix this?
	Basically, when the machine being backup up goes down, I want
the script to continue on.
	Please send responses to ptanner@eng.stratus.com. I'll forward
replies to anyone interested.

					Thanks,

					Phil Tanner
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9701 comp.mail.sendmail:3064
From: kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: SunOS sendmail 4.1/SMI-4.1: bogus "User unknown"
Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:11:38 GMT
Organization: Penn State, Laboratory for Elementary Particle Science

In article <1992Dec23.165255.743@mp.cs.niu.edu> rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) writes:
>In article <BzpqxD.BH@intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
>>This sendmail fails to verify addresses which correspond to records in
>>the NIS "passwd" map, when started in rc.local as a daemon with
>>"/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h".
>
>>What am I missing?
>
>  cd /etc
>  rm -f sendmail.fc  # and don't recreate it
>  # now kill and restart your daemon.
>
>[Sun's implementation of shared libraries is not completely compatible
>with Berkeley's implementation of frozen configs.]

Forgive me if I'm wrong .... but I thought this only happens if you run
sendmail on the same host as your nameserver.  I heard it was a bizarre
interaction of bind and the frozen config file.

If you don't want to delete the frozen config file, you can move sendmail
way down to the bottom of /etc/rc.local (or make it sleep for 30 seconds before
it starts).

--Ken
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9820 comp.sys.sun.misc:6073
From: neal@grover.stat.washington.edu (Phil Neal Inc.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: tty locks up in X11 windows
Date: 30 Dec 1992 22:18:31 GMT
Organization: U. Washington Dept. of Statistics
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: grover.stat.washington.edu
Originator: neal@grover.stat.washington.edu

Dear sys admin types,

I'm running sunos v 4.1.1 on a sparc 2 machine.

Every once in a while I get tty's locking up
when I try to open a new xterm.  I get the xterm
window, but I can't do anything in it. It just
sits there.

WHen I do a "who" command, I seem to have this extra
ttyp logged in. But when I do a ps -x, there isn't any
process affiliated with it and there certainly isn't any 
window. There doesn't even seem to be a zombie.

Usually I can get around it by guesstimating
which ttyp is the offending critter and going
into /dev and renaming it to xxxttyp or some such.

Then I can open new windows. However, now I have
all these renamed ttyps laying around doing nothing.

And I still don't know what caused them to lock up
in the first place.

Oh, has anybody figured out a way to kill a zombie yet ?

Thanks,

Phil Neal

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University of Washington, Seattle, Wa. 98195 USA  | 206-685-1627
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From: broberts@wpi.WPI.EDU (broberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: DNS - Please help.
Date: 23 Dec 92 01:35:59 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu

I am hoping you can help me with a problem.    I realize that this may have
been discussed a few hundred times, but I really need the help.
	
	Thanks.
The enviorment:

	1 SUN 4/360 server - NFS NIS
	1 SUN 3/60  server - NFS
	4 SUN 1+ NFS/NIS Clients
	8 SUN IPC NFS/NIS Clients
	1 SUN 1+ Internet slip DIALUP only gateway - MAIL SERVER

	All of the sun's are running SunOs 4.1.1

The problem:

	I have run through all of the steps to get DNS running correctly
	for the outside world only.  It works correctly on the 4/360
	it works fine on 1 IPC.  It works fine on the 1+ to the internet.
	The rest of the machines have various problems with it.

	A few of the IPC's can't send outgoing mail when configured for
	DNS all of thir messages are returned by our mail server saying
	undeliverable.  When reconfigured without DNS their mail goes out
	fine.

	The 1+'s and the rest of the IPC's have a problem with internal
	addresses when configured for DNS - They don't see anyone inside
	the bldg, but can ping the hell out of sun.com.

/etc/resolv.conf has the following line in it.

order nis,local,bind.
	Any help will be greatly appreciated.

	Thanks
From: fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu (Ningping Fan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How to update shared libraries?
Date: 25 Dec 92 00:55:23 GMT
	<1gqiuvINNj6m@early-bird.think.com>
Organization: School of Medicine, Univ. of Pittsburgh, USA
In-reply-to: barmar@think.com's message of 17 Dec 92 19:03:59 GMT

When I read your article, another problem is acrossing over my mind.
Why static linked binary program may not work in a newer version OS?
Since it is binary machine codes, i.e. the Sparc processor codes,
it should work across all the Sparc processor machine, isn't it?

Is that to link dynamically, could the problem of different version
of shared lib be existed? What I really mean is that for a software
company to distribute his software in binary format, should the
company to link the code dynamically or statically in order to
guarantee the code work across all the Sparc workstations with various
versions of OSs?

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F392 PUH              |  Fax:   412-647-8117
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Univ. of Pittsburgh,  |
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From: ricky@FibHaifa.com (Ricardo <Ricky> Marek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SUMMARY: Xterminals and DNS question..
Date: 28 Dec 92 17:53:29 GMT
Reply-To: ricky@FibHaifa.com
Organization: Fibronics ltd., Haifa - ISRAEL
Originator: ricky@matisse


The Original Posting:
|> 
|> Hi Neters:
|> 
|> How can I make the X-terminals recognize 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 recognized 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 recognize names..

The SUMMARY:

1) NCD Xterminals use DNS to recognize host-names

2) A Hack is to let `inetd' run in.tnamed (in the /etc/inetd.conf).
   ...
   name	dgram	udp	wait	root	/usr/etc/in.tnamed	in.tnamed
   ...
   This is used for domain-services on IEN-116 Domain Protocol..

3) Many Many thanks to:  (Sorted by Name)
     Barry Margolin    <barmar@Think.COM>
     Brendan McKenna   <drendan@oc3c-emh1.army.mil>
     Danny Backx       <db@sunbin.be>
     Ed Killian        <adminefk@sn474.utica.ge.com>
     Evan Davis        <support@ncd.com>
     Jonathan B. Horen <horen@netcom.com>
     Karl Denniger     <karl@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
     William Kucharski <kucharsk@anthraz.Solbourne.COM>

4) Sorry If I forgot someone...

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|_| \_\|_| |____| |_| \_\ \  /  / e-mail: ricky@FibHaifa.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: andy@ie.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun)
Subject: why does an 6000 ft exabyte tape give 2.3Gb capacity?
Organization: University of Toronto, Department of Industrial Engineering
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 11:53:54 GMT

Hi Everyone,

I know I am missing something, but I don't know what it is and will
appreciate your help.

I know for a fact (from the dump(8) man page) that a 2.3Gbyte 8mm
Exabyte tape has a length of 6,000 feet and a density of 54,000 bits/inch.
What I don't understand is WHY 6,000 feet with 54,000 bits/inch would give
2.3Gbyte?

54000 bits x 12 inch x 1 byte x  1 kbyte   x   1 Mbyte  x  1 Gbyte  x 6000 feet
      ----   -------   ------   ----------   -----------  ----------
      inch    1 foot   8 bits   1024 bytes   1024 kbytes  1024 Mbyte

= 0.45Gbyte 

Where does the extra factor of 5 come from?

Andy
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Computing Coordinator			Ontario, Canada. M5S 1A4
Department of Industrial Engineering	Phone: (416) 978-8830
University of Toronto			Fax:   (416) 978-3453
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.mail.sendmail
From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
Subject: SunOS sendmail 4.1/SMI-4.1: bogus "User unknown"
Organization: Intellection, Inc.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:03:13 GMT

This sendmail fails to verify addresses which correspond to records in
the NIS "passwd" map, when started in rc.local as a daemon with
"/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h".

Aliases from the "aliases" map are recognized.  Issuing the same
command interactively after booting with an empty environment vector
starts a daemon which has no problem verifying the addresses.  These
facts rule out the reasons for this behavior which I could think of.

What am I missing?
-- 
Ed McGuire                   1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
Systems Administrator/       Dallas, Texas 75234
 Member of Technical Staff   214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
Intellection, Inc.           <ed@intellection.com>

Raise Usenet quality.  Read news.announce.newgroups and vote.
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9679 comp.unix.questions:14900
From: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
Date: 26 Dec 1992 15:56:37 -0500
Organization: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
NNTP-Posting-Host: xxxxxxxxx

I was bitching about this on a subway in Manhatten and someone across
the car yelled to me, "It's in the boot ROMs, just swap boot ROMs with
a SPARC 2 and they'll boot 4.1.3 without any problems."
 
What a friendly city!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help with Error message -- Conditional Sucess. Data Retry Performed
From: mlg@.cstp.umkc.edu ()
Date: 21 Dec 1992 13:58:31 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University of Missouri Kansas City
NNTP-Posting-Host: nike.umkc.edu
Originator: mlg@nike.cstp.umkc.edu

Sun Administrators:

Can someone please tell me what the following error message means and what
action I should take to fix it.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Dec 20 05:05:51 sparc1 vmunix: id000h: block 178062 (1876692 abs): read: Conditi
onal Success. Data Retry Performed.
Dec 21 01:00:16 sparc1 vmunix: id000h: block 258008 (1956638 abs): read: Conditi
onal Success. Data Retry Performed.
Dec 21 03:21:06 sparc1 vmunix: id000h: block 178062 (1876692 abs): read: Conditi
onal Success. Data Retry Performed.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Thanks.

-- 
Meg Grice
UNIX Systems Administrator
From: ptanner@crow.eng.stratus.com (Philip Tanner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: backups hanging
Date: 21 Dec 1992 12:05:44 GMT
Organization: Stratus Computer, Software Engineering
Distribution: usa
NNTP-Posting-Host: crow.eng.stratus.com


	I've run into the following problem a few times and wanted
to get opinions on what may be the best way to resolve it.

	I backing up non-sun machines, via an IPX, by mounting the 
filesystem(s) and using tar to write the data to a 5gb 8mm exabyte. I 
use mount with the following options:

	-o intr,ro,retry=2,timeo=10

	My problem is if the machine I'm backing up goes away for some 
reason, the backup hangs until I reboot the Sun. Even if the other machine
comes back, the sun and backups are still hung. What I'd like to have happen 
is to have the backups time out on that machine/filesystem and continue on.

	Now, my questions are:

	1) Is this happening because of the mount options I'm using?

	2) Is the backup hanging because of tar?

	3) Should I be using other mount options like timeo?

	Please send responses to ptanner@eng.stratus.com. I'll forward any
replies I get to whomever may be interested.

						Thanks,

						Phil Tanner

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9792 comp.sys.sun.hardware:6543
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:44:37 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I'm not sure if he tried the right kernel, though.  The Classic is
>a uniprocessor superSPARC.

No, it's not; it's a microSPARC.

>He should have tried the sun4c kernel before punting.

Yes, it would have been highly amusing to watch him try to do so, but I
think he was knowledgable enough *not* to try to do that.

If he tried booting a Sun-4c kernel, it would probably have crashed and
burned *most* spectacularly.

The SPARCsystem 600MP, SPARCsystem 10, SPARCclassic, and SPARCsystem LX
machines are all Sun-4ms.  They use the SPARC Reference MMU, which
doesn't look a hell of a lot like the traditional "Sun MMU" used on all
previous SPARC machines and on all Sun-3s other than the 3/80 and 3/4xx;
they also have Sun-4m style control registers of various sorts (e.g.,
interrupt control registers), which don't look all that much like the
equivalent control registers on Sun-4c machines (or other SPARC
machines).
From: nzhang@umiacs.umd.edu (Ning Zhang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SunOS 4.1.1 Crash because of Memory address alignment
Date: 29 Dec 92 03:13:19 GMT
Organization: UMIACS, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742

In the last few weeks, the server in our production environment crashed
twices after running continuously about 1 week. The panic message is:

	Memory address alignment

I was able to get a core dump of the kernel and the adb output is

	$C
	_panic(0xf819b089,0xf849dcbc,0x0,0x0,0xf849e,0xf7fffc80) + 6c
	_trap(0x7,0xf849dcbc,0x0,0x0,0x0,0x3d9) + 184
	fixfault(?)
	_uiomove(0x0,0x0,0x1000,0x2,0x1002,0x2) + 50
	_fifo_rdwr(0xff135c10,0xf849deac,0x0,0xff130d0a,0x2,0x0) + 5ac
	_vno_rw(0xf83554a4,0x1,0xf849deac,0x13d9,0xff135c14,0x0) + a4
	_rwuio(0xf83554a4,0xf849deac,0xf849dea4,0x13d9,0x13d9,0xf849deac) + 2b0
	_write(0xf849dfe0,0x20,0xf8180fe8,0xf8181008,0xf849e000,0xf8181008) + 34
	_syscall(0xf849e000) + 3b4
	0xf819b089/s
	_sizestr+0x89:  Memory address alignment

I seemed to me that the kernel crashed during a named pipe (FIFO) I/O operation.
Our production system kernel is configured with 512 named pipes:

	_fifoinfo/D
	_fifoinfo:      4096
	_fifoinfo+4:    -1
	_fifoinfo+8:    4096
	_fifoinfo+0xc:  2101248
 
And the these pipes are heavily used.

The version of SUN OS we are running is 4.1.1.

Does anyone know if there is any bug with the SunOS may cause the problem?

Thanks in advance,

-Ning
From: unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Looking to replace NeWSprint.
Date: 1 Jan 1993 06:32:16 GMT
Organization: The University of British Columbia
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: physics.ubc.ca

tjm@hrt213.brooks.af.mil (Tim Miller) writes:

>	We have a SPARCprinter, running off a SPARC 2 (SunOS 4.1.3,
>X11R5, NeWS 1.0).  We'd like to replace NeWSprint with something else,
>if at all possible, hopefully smaller than the NeWS + small_openwin
>package. 
>	
The Sparcprinter language is not proprietary- it is non-existant. The
Sparcpritner is  stupid drum with a laser- you have to send it all of
the signals to turn the laser on and off ( ie the only thing it accepts
is a bitmap.) Newsprint converts the input to a bitmap. The openwin is
used to convert postscript to a bitmap. The source code for the printer
driver is included with Newsprint, so presumably you could use something
else to generate the bitmap for you, but you'd need a bit of time.- is
the excess space worth a year of your time? Or has anyone set up
ghostscript say to run the Sparcpritner?

PS why the excessive cross posting?