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From: drinckes@csl.dl.nec.com (Doug Rinckes)
Subject: SUMMARY- Backup Copilot tape library trubbles
Organization: TSSC New Zealand
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 21:11:02 GMT


Some time ago I posted a problem with Backup Copilot.
 
Simply put, the problem lay in the time lag between asking the package what
tape it would use, and the backup running.  If another tape with a lower id
number expired between those two events, the package would expect that tape
to be in the drive.
 
Of course, that tape *wouldn't* be in the drive and the dump would fail.
 
The basic answer is yes, it does do that, and no, there isn't much you can
do about it.
 
Apparently it is fixed in the Solaris 2.0 release.
 
Meanwhile, you can use this script to get a list of the current tapes, in order
of expiry date and time.  You will need to take care interpreting the results
but it is fairly straightforward.
 
#! /bin/sh
# Get hostname from command-line, default to `/usr/bin/hostname`.
hostname=${1-`/usr/bin/hostname`}
# Specify dumpex's command-line
dumpex="/usr/etc/dumpex -n ${hostname}"
# Specify dumptm's command-line
dumptm="/usr/etc/dumptm -C ${hostname} -l "
# Specify sort's command-line (sort by year(6), month(3), day(4), time(5))
sort="/usr/bin/sort +6 +3M +4 -5"
# Specify echo's command-line
echo="/usr/bin/echo"
# Run dumpex, scroll a line, run dumptm and sort the result.
${dumpex}; ${echo}; ${dumptm} | ${sort}
 
 
Many thanks to:
  Brian.Berliner@Central.Sun.COM   Brian Berliner
  Shane.Sigler@Eng.Sun.COM         Shane Sigler
  matthew@sunpix.East.Sun.COM      Matthew Stier  (who supplied the script)


-- 
Doug Rinckes, Network Administrator
Telecommunications Systems Support Centre New Zealand Ltd  
                                   | drinckes@nzl.abk.nec.co.jp
DOD#: 741                          | the opinions above are not my employers -
1976 BMW R100S + 41mm Dell'Ortos   |  mind you, they may not be mine either!
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rrbk50@email.sps.mot.com (Rick Cottle)
Subject: Solaris Fears
Organization: SPS
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 15:57:33 GMT

We are about to invest in a unix platform to support our
computer integrated manufacturing environment.  Our third-party
software supports the rs6000, sun, and hp.  Of the bunch, there
is more local support and experience with sun than the others.

However, not being in tune with sun/os developments, there is a
fear that when sun moves to solaris that we will have significant
backward compatibility problems with our applications.

Will someone kindly bring us up to date with:

1) What is the differences between solaris and sun/os?

2) Are they claiming complete backward compatibility?

3) Does anyone have any positive or negative experience with
   early versions of solaris?

4) What are the answers to questions I didn't know enough to ask? 


Thanks in advance,

rick

<email would be nice>
_____________________________________________________________________
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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Letting users mount Floppy Drive
Keywords: Floppy
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:35:46 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <1992Sep25.193309.16381@ethome.et.iupui.edu> damon@tnt.cadcam.iupui.edu writes:
<
<   I have a machine that users want to transfer files from a MessDos
<machine to their new Sparc.  So how can I let them mount a floppy with
<out being root, or do i need to setuid on mount for this.  Or is there
<a script someone has written.  I would thing others have had this same
<problem.  Or am i the only one.

Use the mtools suite of programs, available on my ftp archive sites.
-- 
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From: lindh@uhasun.hartford.edu (Andrew Lindh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Directions on how to install the SunOS from tape
Date: 1 Oct 92 01:50:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: The University of Hartford
X-Posted-From: alpha.hartford.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu



There are three ways to install the SunOS from tape.
(this is from memory......so you have have to wing it)

SunOS 2.x		I don't remeber...
SunOS 3.x		The old way
SunOS 4.0 to 4.1	Don't do it!...I don't remember how...
			But I do know there are problems
SunOS 4.1.1 and up	The easy way

You need to know your devices
	st	SCSI tape (45meg drive and up)
	ar	Archive tape (Sun-2, 20meg)
	xt	Xylogics tape
	tm	tape master
	sd	SCSI disk (SCSI, ESDI, MFM/RLL)
	xy	xylogics SMD disk (440/450/451)
	ip	interphase (not supported over 2.x)
	id	IPI disk
	

First the easy way SunOS 4.1.1
	b st()		(or what ever tape you have)
Follow the instructions, it will help you format disks
and install mini-root and then the OS

Now for the old way.....
	b st()		(loads the generic BOOT program)
	boot: st(,,3)	(diag/format program)
now format and partition the disk, then exit and...
	b st()		(load boot again)
	boot: st(,,4)	(standalone copy program)
	From: st(,,5)	(the mini-root)
	To: sd(,,1)	(to swap partition of your disk)
Go get a snack, this will take a few minutes.
	Boot: sd(,,1)vmunix -as	(start special mini-root)
	Root? sd0*	(special mini-root filesystem)

Then you can run the sun 'setup' program.

You need to remember to change 'st' and 'sd' to be your disk and tape.
This is assuming that you are using the FIRST controller and
the FIRST tape on the system, if you are not then you need to
modify what you enter....
	device(controller,unit,partition)
controller is the PHYSICAL SYSTEM controller. Unit is like first disk
or second disk (SCSI has 'strange' units, a combinations of ID and LUN,
keep trying, you'll find it). Partitions will stay the same unless you
are doing something very strange.

This should work for Sun-1/2/3 systems and most older Sun-4 systems
On some newer sparcs this boot format is not supported, good luck!

Hope this helps!

-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.admin
From: pirzyk@sparc0a.cs.uiuc.edu (Jim Pirzyk)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NFS mounting /var/spool/mail && file locking
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 02:10:03 GMT

In <1992Oct1.173131.2416@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com> swlodin@kocrsv01.delcoelect.com (Steve Lodin) writes:


>In article <1aeavoINNdga@early-bird.think.com>, barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>> In article <1992Sep30.203648.7075@netcom.com> wisner@netcom.com (Bill Wisner) writes:
>> >mosedale@fafner.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
>> >>In SunOS, this is done by setting up sendmail.cf to use the
>> >>OR command (see /usr/lib/sendmail.subsidiary.cf).
>> >When the R option is enabled, *all* mail gets delivered through the
>> >mail host.  The From: address on outbound mail gets set to the name
>> >of your domain, rather than your individual hostname.  This is not
>> >always the correct thing to do.
>> 
>> The context of the suggestion was that everyone is NFS-mounting
>> /usr/spool/mail from the mail host.  In that case, why wouldn't it be
>> correct for the From: address to be an address that gets delivered to that
>> host?
>> 
>> Clearly, any machine that has its own /usr/spool/mail would not use this
>> feature, but that's not what we're talking about.

>I don't know what he meant, but I interpreted it this way:

>When all mail goes thru the mailhost with some obscure name that the
>users don't like, it is not preferred.  The users would like their
>mail to come from user@joe-cool.domain instead of user@obscure-name.domain.
>We had that problem here, but squashed it.

We have another case where you do not want the /var/spool/mail server's
name as the source of the mail.  We have a client machine that is a UUCP
server, and the mail directories are on a fileserver.  To have a proper
return address, the mail must not have the fileserver's name but the 
UUCP server's name.

- Jim

-- 
[Jim] pirzyk@uiuc.edu -------------------------------------------------
TAC System Administrator, USArmy Construction Engineering Resarch Labs
/* Hello, we're the government and we're here to help you. :) */
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.elm,comp.mail.misc,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: NFS mounting /var/spool/mail && file locking
Date: 1 Oct 1992 07:56:40 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Sep30.203648.7075@netcom.com> wisner@netcom.com (Bill Wisner) writes:
>mosedale@fafner.stanford.edu (Dan Mosedale) writes:
>>In SunOS, this is done by setting up sendmail.cf to use the
>>OR command (see /usr/lib/sendmail.subsidiary.cf).
>When the R option is enabled, *all* mail gets delivered through the
>mail host.  The From: address on outbound mail gets set to the name
>of your domain, rather than your individual hostname.  This is not
>always the correct thing to do.

The context of the suggestion was that everyone is NFS-mounting
/usr/spool/mail from the mail host.  In that case, why wouldn't it be
correct for the From: address to be an address that gets delivered to that
host?

Clearly, any machine that has its own /usr/spool/mail would not use this
feature, but that's not what we're talking about.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A Zook 283-4206)
Subject: large groups
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 21:00:14 GMT

I have a need to create a large group (about 1500 - 2000) characters.
Does anyone know of a method to do this?  The man pages and some
tests I have done indicate that it can't be done.
I am running SunOS 4.1.1 and nis.
Some method to include a group of groups would solve my problem
(similar to the method used for making a large mail aliases).

-- 
Craig Zook   -   zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov
Systems Engineeering and Administration
McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company - Houston Division
(713) 283-4206
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
Subject: Re: xdm startup and ps/who problem
Organization: Team Limpid's Meathead With Aptitude - Kunst und Wahnsinn
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 15:06:43 GMT

In article <1992Sep22.160406.25591@state.systems.sa.gov.au> enisaxg@state.systems.sa.gov.au writes:
>We're running xdm from a Sparc to a series of X11/R5 X-terminals.
>		2. Starting xdm from /etc/rc.local -- how the heck do you do
>		   it? I've put
>   		   /usr/openwin/bin/xdm -config /usr/openwin/lib/xdm/xdm-config
>                   in /etc/rc.local, both with and without a trailing &,
>		   within and without surrounding brackets (ie subshells),
>		   but xdm refuses to start up correctly. There should be one
>		   process for every record in the "Xservers" file but instead
>		   all ps tells me is that /usr/openwin/bin/xdm ... is running
>		   and there are ineffective processes doing things like
>		   -config /usr/openwin...
>		   one per Xserver entry.

You don't want *any* Xservers entries for Xterminals....  Just let XDMCP do
the work.  Xservers is really for things like workstations and old xterminals
that you want to run xdm on but don't handle XDMCP properly.

Cheers,
-- 
\/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17                   No-one is to molest
vato@csv.warwick.ac.uk  ...!mcsun!uknet!warwick!vato           the wombat when
/I=I/S=Dickinson/OU=CSV/O=Warwick/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/            anyone is
@c=GB@o=University of Warwick@ou=Computing Services@cn=Ian Dickinson  watching.
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From: dru@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Dru)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
Subject: Yppasswd doesn't like our user's current password
Summary: unreported bug?
Date: 29 Sep 92 14:03:49 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Purdue University


   We discovered a quirk with yppasswd here.  We had a user change their
password to a string which contained control characters.  This part completes
normally.  But the next time the user goes to change their password, we get
something like this: [even if there are no "special" characters in the new one]

%%%
assist ~dru --> yppasswd
Changing NIS password for dru on feserve.cc.purdue.edu.
Old password:
New password:
Retype new password:
RPC: Server can't decode arguments

yppasswd couldn't change entry (rpc call failed)
%%%

   The RPC calls aren't grokking the control characters, and they also die
on ":".  As a result the user can't change his own passwd, so he hunts a
SysAdmin down to do it for him.  Since most SysAdmins have better things to do
than change users' passwords all day, I kinda figured that I could find a fix.

   It would seem logical that if it didn't like control characters in the old
password, then it wouldn't accept them at all in the first place (grrrr...).
Never-the-less I've RTFMed, RTF Bug List, and watched several Sun groups for
similar reported problems to no avail.  Does anyone else have this type of
"quirk", and if so, has anyone fixed it yet?

   BTW, we're running Sun OS 4.1.2.  I will gladly summarize if I get enough
informative responses.

--
Dru Carlson
dru@cc.purdue.edu
80 days left to find a job... or find someone to pay for 4 more years of school
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From: frank@imr.no (Frank Flesland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.mail.misc,comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: Automounting /var/spool/mail
Keywords: mail, HP
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:07:04 GMT
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway

I have a related problem:

We run a mixed park of machines from SUN and HP. When I try to mount the
/var/spool/mail from the central SUN server on any HP machine, they try
to deliver mail locally and mess up the mail file.

There is only one sendmail.cf delivered with HP-UX.

Has anybody out there a sendmail.cf for HP that will deliver all mail
to a central server? Please Email directly to me.

- fhf
--

Frank H. Flaesland    Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway
frank@imr.no
From: gould@haas.berkeley.edu (George Gould - Haas MBA)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: memory limit and MAXDSIZE
Date: 2 Oct 1992 23:21:12 GMT
Organization: InTech - Innovative Technology Consulting
NNTP-Posting-Host: haas.berkeley.edu

In article <1992Oct1.235758.25604@pta.pyramid.com.au> alex@pta.pyramid.com.au (Alex Patison) writes:
>In article <1992Oct1.152542.11762@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> crr@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Chris Riley  (201) 564-2516) writes:
>>We are having problems with running onto a 40MB limit on our Pyramid 7080
>
>Interesting model number, never heard of one of those before :-)

This is the AT&T naming convention for Pyramid's MIS-12/x. AT&T originally
only support 8 CPUs on the 128/128 I and D cache architecture (ISIS). The
backplane, however, will still accommodate 12 CPUs. The MIS 12 and 7080 are
virtually identical except for the outer skins. The MIS-4/x is called the
AT&T 7040 and the MIS-2 is called the AT&T 7020 (note: that the MIS-1/1 or
7010 was only available from AT&T through special bids).

AT&T also uses RELEASE numbers to distinguish CPU versions:

	7040 REL I => MIS-4 (ISIS) original version
	7040 REL II => MIS-4T (ESIS) 512/512 I&D cashes
	7040 REL III => R3000

Hope this is informative,

george gould
From: mje@posix.co.za
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: Various questions from novice Pyramid adminstrator
Date: 27 Sep 92 19:43:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: posix.1992Sep27.194331.9115
Organization: Mark's Machine (Working for Olivetti Africa)

In <1992Sep17.195513.3323@kopachuk.uucp> dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman) writes:

>In article <1992Sep16.133600.7328@pdnfido.fidonet.org> withers@pdnfido.fidonet.org (John Withers) writes:
>>

>>3.  What are the 'tricks' to using 'named' on the system?  I 
>etc... Can't help you - we use uucp only.

What do you mean? .. tricks with named?  Named works fine on both Dual and
SVR4... though for the TCP Utilities (eg telnet) to work with named - you
need a fairly current patch level... which I'm still waiting for. Joke is -
our Pyramid is the Primary name server at Olivetti Africa, but uses the
/etc/hosts file for its self.

>>2.  Is is possible to use the built-in modem on the MIS4.  I
>>    understand that it is a Telebit.

>Aha!  This is one I can answer.  That modem is hard wired to the
>console.  The machine actually supports two simultaneous consoles
>(one local and one via modem).  Anything done on one is printed
>on the screen of the other, etc.  If you are logged on to the console
>and someone calls in on the modem, they are logged in too as soon as
>the modems connect!

What about the third line - the printer line....

Seemed a bit stupid to have the TB1800 Rack Mount in our pyramid - as
we were doing support for our customers - so I removed it.  Its
powered with the same 4-way connector as are used to power HDU's and
Streamers - as found in PC's - but the connections are completely
different.  This connector provides +12 -12 +5 & Gnd.  (Pins 1 through
4 - in that order - as on the daughter board that plugs into the
T18RMM).  The DTR signal is not propogated to the TB1800 - I did some
surgery to enable this.

The unit now sits on top of my old AT&T 3B2-400 at home.  There is a
power connector that is wired into the AT&T for all DC power
requirements.  I treat it as a TB2500 - except with no V32bis option -
and it works just fine.

As for support - we have an Olivetti network around the major centres
- and all pyramid customers run 'slip' to their nearest Olivetti.  One
of their own terminal servers has a reverse-telnet link to the 'modem'
port.  All I do is run a 'telnet' to their 'modem' port.
-- 
  .  .     ___. .__      Olivetti Systems & Networks, Unix Support - Africa
 /| /|       / /__       UUCP: uunet!olsa99!mje (Mark J. Elkins)
/ |/ |ARK \_/ /__ LKINS  mje@olive.co.za (Postmaster) Tel: +27 11 456 3125
From: alex@pta.pyramid.com.au (Alex Patison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.pyramid
Subject: Re: memory limit and MAXDSIZE
Date: 1 Oct 92 23:57:58 GMT
Organization: Pyramid Technology Corporation, Sydney

In article <1992Oct1.152542.11762@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> crr@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Chris Riley  (201) 564-2516) writes:
>We are having problems with running onto a 40MB limit on our Pyramid 7080

Interesting model number, never heard of one of those before :-)

>We have programs that need to malloc more than 40MB,
>but the machine just won't let us, even though we have 256MB available.

>There is a parameter in the kernel called MAXDSIZ

This parameter defines the limit to the size of the data stack of the
process.  If the process wants more virtual memory (regardless of what is
installed in the machine), then you have to increase this value.  I needed to
increase this limit when compiling some large programs with LOTS of labels.
Note that the default is 20000 (2k pages = 40MB), so set it to what you want.
In my MAKESYS file I had

	MAXDSIZ=\(int\)ptob\(50000\)

to overcome the problem, and there are no other side effects.  It has been
running for a while like this on a very busy system.  Note the backslashed
parenthesis are required because of the way /etc/makesys builds up its
arguments for the compilation phase.

regards,

      -m-------  Alex Patison			        alex@pta.pyramid.com.au
    ---mmm-----  Pyramid Technology Corporation Pty Ltd	 	
  -----mmmmm---  403 Pacific Highway  Artarmon  2064	   voice +61 2 901 5333
-------mmmmmmm-  Sydney  Australia			     fax +61 2 906 4353

                           "Gynotilcolobomassophile"
From: badri@rags.rutgers.edu (Br Badrinath)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: Specification for HP75LX
Keywords: data on HP75LX
Date: 28 Sep 92 15:43:30 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.


I need some important specifications of HP75Lx.

These include:
1) Processor used and its speed
2) Display (type and area)
3) Memory/storage (RAM size  for system and users)
   Max capacity (in house only)
4) Power management capabilities

5) Power requirements (how many batteries?)

any other relevant data on the palmtop would be
highly appreciated.

--badri
badri@cs.rutgers.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
From: mpj@hemlock.cray.com (Marvin P. Johnson)
Subject: Re: muLISP and HP95
Originator: mpj@hemlock
Organization: Cray Research, France.
Date: 2 Oct 92 12:04:43 CDT


In article <1992Oct2.153544.20733@cgrg.ohio-state.edu>, flip@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Flip Phillips) writes:
> In article <1992Oct1.032834.1382@hemlock.cray.com> mpj@hemlock.cray.com (Marvin P. Johnson) writes:
> >
> [...]
> 
> >Let's not forget the excellent ylisp version for the '95 in
> >eddie:distrib/hp95lx/languages/ylisp95.zip ! It supports graphics too.
> >Marvin.
> 
> Pardon my naive-ness, where is eddie? You talkin' osu-eddie?
> 
> -- flip
> 
> 
> -- 
> Flip Phillips					flip@cgrg.ohio-state.edu
> The Ohio State University

18.62.0.6 (a.k.a. eddie.mit.edu) is the machine where all hp95lx
software hangs out (well there's a lot on Compuserve too but that's another story)

Drop me a line if you have trouble running this LISP. Certain things
aren't mentioned in the docs.

BTW This version was ported by Peter Ernst of HP in Germany.

Regards from Paris,

Marvin.
From: droms@regulus.cs.bucknell.edu (Ralph E. Droms)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops
Subject: ZEOS pocket PC
Date: 28 Sep 92 21:56:29
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
Distribution: comp
Reply-To: droms@bucknell.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: regulus.cs.bucknell.edu

I have a few quick questions about the ZEOS pocket PC:

1) Are they currently shipping?  What's the delivery time?

2) How is the 1Mb of RAM allocated?  Is there a RAM disk and can I
   load applications into RAM disk?

3) Is the parallel port a "full" parallel port - could I run, e.g., an
   add-on hard disk or ethernet interface on the parallel port?

4) Is there a video output port for an external monitor?

5) How much do RAM cards cost?

Thanks...

--
- Ralph Droms                 Computer Science Department
  droms@bucknell.edu          323 Dana Engineering
  (717) 524-1145              Bucknell University
  (717) 524-3760 (fax)        Lewisburg, PA 17837