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From: tibbs@bifur.math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Subject: nslookup works, but name service doesn't?
Organization: Blob Shop Programmers
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:21:39 GMT

[Boy, this 4.1.3 upgrade has shaken loose all kinds of problems...]

I have a machine that has a very simple resolv.conf file:

;
; Data file for Bifur.
;
domain		math.uh.edu
nameserver	129.7.128.1

Now, simple commands such as "finger @wuarchive.wustl.edu" produce an
unknown host error.  But nslookup (using 129.7.128.1 as the server) can
find the machine just fine.  The only differences are that this machine
doesn't run NIS and that this machine acts as an ARP server for a subnet.
It is not on the subnet, but the name server is.  (Strange, I know.)
Still, other machines not on the subnet can resolve names using the same
resolv.conf. 

The manuals are very terse about the resolver and I take it that there's no
real way to debug it.  I'm baffled.

Any ideas?
--
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System Administrator:  University of Houston Mathematics Department
 Houston Centers for Advanced Scientific and Molecular Computation
Blob Shop Programmers: Database consulting and graphics programming
From: aegl@ossi.com (Tony Luck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: cpio -p corrupted links?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 11:58:44 -0700
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: nym.ossi.com

My thanks to <peter@essex.ac.uk> for a prompt (and highly believable) answer
my question about "cpio -p" corrupting links.  Apparently cpio only stores
the low 16-bits of the inode number for files with multiple links, and thus
will get confused when you use it to copy/archive a set of files where there
are mutiplle sets of linked files whose inode numbers are the same modulo
65536.  A news partition is full of files with lots of links (since everyone
always cross-posts to a half dozen groups, and nobody ever edits the
"Newsgroups:" header when replying :-(

Another reason to avoid cpio for anything important!

-Tony Luck <aegl@ossi.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: sgccpxb@citec.oz.au (Paul Brown 2245719)
Subject: gateways
Organization: CITEC
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 02:37:43 GMT

Um, where to start ?

We have two routers to outside sites, that send in their tables every now
and then.  When we try to send info to our X-terms, the router tries to route
it out and then back in again.

This means twice as much traffic on the network, and heaps more than we need
to go through the router.

Our /etc/gateways file doesn't contain and host entries at the moment, how do
we make them ?

(i.e. what do we specify in the 4th field [name or address of gateway])

Thanx in advance.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: RE: Question on Exabyte 8500
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 15:34:45 GMT

I can only say we bought a 8500 from ACROPOLIS in the last
2 weeks and we get the same response to the status command.
I'm wondering if it perhaps is in 8200 mode?? On our SPARC
station we were told we'd never be able to set the mode to
anything but 8500 for write but the mode would automagically
switch to 8200 if it was attempting to read a tape written on
an 8200 machine.
From: stewart@tweety.cis.udel.edu (John Stewart)
Subject: Re: Help desk software.
Organization: University of Delaware
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 19:16:21 GMT

In article <3333@peking.gdwb.oz.au> csb@gdwb.oz.au (Craig Bishop) writes:
>Could someone who has gone throught the pain of searching out
>companies and software systems which do this send me a list.

At my place of employment, we have made our database application
called the Help Desk Management System (HDMS) available which,
among other things, manages the help desk.  This involves opening
and closing problems, escalating their priority, and printing
trouble tickets at one of many trouble ticket printers.  It has
many other features which aren't directly related to running a
help desk.

The HDMS is written for the UNIFY 2000 RDBMS and the ACCELL/SQL
development environment, both from UNIFY Corporation.  We run the
application on a SPARCstation 2, but it can be ported to any
system that runs the software from UNIFY Corporation.

The release includes the database design, ACCELL 4GL scripts, C
programs, and rather extensive documentation for both users and
administrators.

The release can be found on ftp.delmarva.com [138.39.7.10] in
pub/hdms.  We only have a 56K connection to the Internet, so we
would appreciate it if you would wait until the evening, EDT, to
get it.

NOTE:  The HDMS is made openly available (i.e., it is free), but
is not in the public domain.  The software from UNIFY Corporation,
on the other hand, is commercial software that must be purchased
in order to do anything with the HDMS.

/jws
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From: montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Writing an FAQ for this NewsGroup
Date: 11 Oct 92 01:13:02 GMT
Organization: University of Cincinnati, ECE Dept

HI

Has anyone written a FAQ for this newsgroup? or does
anyone plan to write a FAQ for this group.

If no one has plans to write an FAQ for this newgroup
I would like to volunteer to coordinate the writing of
this groups FAQ and the others in the comp.sys.sun.*
hierarchy.

A starting point could be the old sun-managers mailing list
FAQ. Also, it should include some stuff from the
alt.security and comp.security.misc FAQ.
Finally, it could provide information on where to obtain
some of the common public domain software packages.
 

Suggestions for this FAQ should be sent to Rob.Montjoy@uc.edu.

Thanks.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: smith@starbase.mitre.org (Pamela Smith)
Subject: Format.dat Needed ASAP
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 12:55:48 GMT

Help! Does anyone have the format.dat entry for a fujitsu M2652SA/HA drive?

Pam Smith
(psmith@mitre.org)


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: frank@krill.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Frank Flesland)
Subject: Re: SparcStation Scrolling Problem
Organization: University of Bergen, Norway
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 92 16:09:03 GMT

 
|> I CAN'T scroll correctly worth a darn from the OS. (I am
|> running SunOS 4.1.1)  Whenever I 'more' a text file, for example,it
|> doesn't do one full screen page at a time.  It seems to
|> list an arbitrary number of lines to the screen and will
|> clear itself at the bottom and continue on a clear screen if it wants to
|> do so.  The more prompt then stops anywhere on the screen - not just
|> at the bottom like it should. I have similar problems with 'ls',
|> 'ps', et al.
|> ......
|> If ANYONE out there has run into this problem and/or knows
|> how to solve it, PLEASE let me know (ryan@einstein.lar.fsu.edu)
|> 
|> below is the entry from /etc/termcap for type sun which it uses:
.....
|> ryan@einstein.lar.fsu.edu
|> 


Are you sure your machine actually USES the termcap?
I had a similar problem until I found out that SUN had switched
to using terminfo for many applications.

Frank
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Subject: Strange st0 boot problems...
Summary: I get weird failure on trying to boot off st0 on my 3/50
Keywords: boot,tape,scsi,error
Organization: Clarkson University
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 22:24:57 GMT


I get the following message when trying to boot SunOS 4.1.1 Sun3 off the
Archive viper 2150s on my 3/50:

>b st()
Boot: st(0,0,0)
st: error, sense key = 5 error = 0
scsi: dma never completed
st: error, sense key = 6 error = 0
scsi: dma never completed
st: error, sense key = 6 error = 0
Boot: load failed

Funny thing is, I can dump & tar to this drive w/no problems.  Also,
substituting a 60M QIC drive doesn't help - it gives a weird hex error.

Could it be that my boot tapes are bad? (I hope so.... *much easier to
fix than a bad scsi bus).

One other comment: when I run the boot prom self tests, I get an error
condition on the following si (scsi) self-tests:

FIFO/UDC DMA Test
SCSI Bus External Loopback Test

I also get the same errors on another 3/50.

Gosh, I hope it is the boot tapes - I *used* to be able to boot them. 
IF it is, anybody have a spare set?

-Pete


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mnejat@telesoft.com (Mehregan Nejat @lone)
Subject: Exiting process hangs tty port.
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 21:00:38 GMT

We have been having a problem with our serial lines and tip.
Once in a while tip hangs and users end up killing the process either
by using the kill command or closing their windows.  By doing any one
of the above they leave a ZOMBIE process which hangs the tty port
and makes it unusable till the system gets rebooted.

In the past I was able to use the trace command to get rid of the 
<exiting> process (i.e. trace -p PID).  However, after upgrading to 4.1.x
from 4.0.3 the above mentioned trace command does no longer work.
Does Sun have a patch for this besides rebooting the system.

Thanks in advance.

--Mehregan Nejat
From: sandy@rafos.gso.uri.edu (Sandy Fontana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Spinwriter, printcap entry
Date: 6 Oct 92 21:26:05 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: School of Oceanography, URI, Narragansett, RI

Hi,

If anyone has a printcap entry that works for an NEC spinwriter, model 7725, I
would appreciate it if you could share it with me. I'm a novice at setting up
printers on Sun, and right now only the beginning of a file is being printed
(catting directly to /dev/ttya works).
Thanks in advance.

Sandy Fontana
From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Accounting software for printing
Date: 7 Oct 92 20:36:01 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <BvpJ9y.6pz@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu> pac@rucs.faculty.cs.runet.edu (Michael Packer) writes:
<
<	I'm in need of some kind of accounting software that will allow
<students to print to a printer only if they have "funds".  If they don't
<have enough money to pay for the entire job it will not print and just
<ignore their request for printing and let them know it was not printed.
<
<any leads on possible places to look would be GREATLY appreciated!

You have a different problem.  How are you going to know how many pages it
is going to print?  The printers can't supply that information until after
the job was printed.  You can't just look at the file to determine the page
count either.  You don't say if it is PostScript or HP-PCL.  With PCL, as far
as I know you can't.  With PostScript you can, kinda.

If a PostScript document is DSC compliant, there will be a %%Pages: comment.
If the document is not DSC compliant, then you have to run it to determine
the number of pages.

Here is the other kicker, what would stop the student from modifying the
PostScript file and either removing the special Page comments or changing them?
The only way you are going to know is to print the pages.  No money, don't
supply the printout.  Then you can turn off accepting future printouts until
the bill is paid.

Another, time consuming, method is to use the program GhostScript and perl
to pre-print the file to determine the actual number of pages that would
print if sent to the printer.  But, this is a big waste of time and resources.
You'd be better off just printing the job and then determining if there is
enough money.
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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100% full?
Date: 12 Oct 92 23:41:57 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Wrong. GNU df prints -1 on my cdrom mount.

Wrong.  That's *NOT* a BSD file system, it's a High Sierra/ISO9660 file
system.  The HSFS file system code reports "-1" as the number of free
blocks/files, presumably because it's not a meaningful question for an
HSFS file system (so what if there's free space - you can't do anything
with it).

And he *definitely* didn't have it mounted on a CD-ROM, given that the
amount of free space was changing....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri)
Subject: Re: Syslog problem
Reply-To: styri@nta.no
Organization: Norwegian Telecom Research
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 09:35:29 GMT

In article <1992Oct13.141426.22337@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no (Haakon Styri) writes:
|> I'm having this little problem setting up a logging program on a few
|> Sun4 running 4.1.2 and NIS. The problem is this: I'm using messages
|> to `local0' with `info' priority. When I specify `local0.info' as
|> the first and only selector in `syslog.conf' I get an error when I
|> send a hangup to `syslogd'.
|> 
|> The error message is "unknown priority name".
|> 
|> Appending `local0.info' to another selector list works ok, for example
|> `mail.debug;local0.info' gives no errors on hangup and logs just fine.
|> What I need, however, is to log `local0.info' separately.
|> 
|> What really bugs me is that I tested the program on my own Sun4 running
|> 4.1.2, but no NIS - thank you, and the setup works just fine. (The `libc.so'
|> is changed to use DNS. But, that shouldn't be the cause.) The `syslogd' on
|> the machines gives identical checksums.
|> 
|> Please reply by mail if you can give advice, and I'll post a summary...

And, my problem was...

Using cut'n'paste made TABs into spaces and there shall be only TABs
between the selector amd the action.

Thanks to flanagan and montjoy.

---
Haakon Styri
Norwegian Telecom Research
From: chudley@canon.co.uk (Martin Chudley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: modem handshake confusion
Keywords: t3000 handshake
Date: 13 Oct 92 13:03:52 GMT
Organization: Canon Research Centre Europe Ltd

Would someone clarify this for me please.  I have two T3000's which will
talk to each other but I seem to get a lot of data being lost.  How is the 
handshake done? I have turned on ixon and ixoff and have S58=3 in the hope
that XON/XOFF flow control should handle it; obviously it doesn't.

Someone said that the Sun doesn't wiggle RTS, so I assume that setting crtscts
just leaves RTS high? yes? And the SUN will still take note of the modems CTS?

Should I use XON/XOFF, CTS/RTS, or both?

What effect do the eeprom settings have on things?

Thanks


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From: sroth@jabba.mavd.honeywell.com (Steve Roth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: giant packet
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:25:35 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Honeywell MAvD, St. Louis Park, MN

We had 'Giant Packet' errors on our network also.  We tracked it down to an
older Gateway (?) ethernet card in a PC that was formerly used on a Novell
network.  The thing that was curious was that ethernet address of all ff's.

We even called the manufacturer and received responses like "what's NFS?" - 
apparently they make their cards for the Novell market.

Steve
From: mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Detecting Logout of User
Date: 7 Oct 92 15:14:01 GMT
Reply-To: mre1@itri.bton.ac.uk
Organization: ITRI, University of Brighton, UK

I want to detect when a user finally logs out of a machine
so that I can perform some file sorting routines. I only want
to do this when the user finally logs out of the machine, not
when they quit a shelltool or application. 

Any suggestions of what I should be trying to detect ?

Thank you,
Mark

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From: barnesm@vavau.Corp.Sun.COM (Mark Barnes - SMCC/CTE/OS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: cpio -p corrupted links?
Date: 13 Oct 1992 19:38:17 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: barnesm@vavau.Corp.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: vavau.corp.sun.com


You might consider applying patch 100556-02, which replaces the cpio command.
This version uses more than just the lower 16 bits of the i-node number when
trying to determine if two files are linked to each other or not.  It uses other info
from the i-node (size, uid, gid, mode & modification time) as well to determine
whether the file is unique or not.
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SUN Microsystems Computer Corp. |
Corporate Technical Escalations |  I speak for myself, an individual,
Menlo Park, CA, USA             |  not for the company for which I work.
barnesm@vavau.Corp.Sun.COM      |
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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Size of swap file
Date: 8 Oct 92 16:47:37 GMT
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM

In article <ROUILJ.92Oct7162852@ra.cs.umb.edu> rouilj@cs.umb.edu (John P. Rouillard) writes:
>
>In article <1992Oct7.132659.6926@fripp.ri.cadre.com>  jh@cadre.com 
>	(Joe Hartley) writes:
>
>>   Now, considering that I can't dynamically allocate swap space from the 
>>   free space on my hard drive, and that I'm only going to determine the
>
>>   How would *you* determine the swap area at setup time?
>
>I wouldn't. I would allocate just as much as was needed for memory,
>then use mkfile and swapon to add more if necessary. 

This is fine so long as you bear in mind that swapping through files is much
less efficient than swapping to a raw partition. For starters, you have to go
through the filesystem structures to get to it. Even worse, if the file is 
reasonably large (which it probably will be) or the filesystem has been in
use for a while, it will certainly be fragmented, reducing performance further.

If you are fairly sure before you set up the system that your applications 
will need more virtual memory than you have real, you should make your swap 
partition(s) adequate to the task rather than adding bits and pieces later.

Another performance win, if you have more than one disk, is to spread the
swap areas across them.
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From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Questions about ypset and ypbind -ypset
Date: 11 Oct 92 23:07:45 GMT
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

On 11 Oct 92 19:25:40 GMT, olsenc@carson.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen) said:


> Hello:

> I was wondering about the use of ypset.  On HP-UX, you
> can issue a ypset to any client with no problems, but on
> a Sun (SunOS 4.1.2 -- Sparc 2), ypbind seems to reject
> my request for a ypset.

> What's the deal?

I think that SunOS is trying to keep you from using ypset too easily, so they
make you kill ypbind and restart it with the ypset flag (ypbind -ypset), then
you can use ypset all you want.  But if you are not getting the server you
wish, there probably exists a problem somewhere.

I just found out that you can't have 2 servers on the same NIS domain and
have them be independent (i.e. have some clients only running off one server
and other clients running off the other server).  Solution, just change
the NIS domain.  Oh, another thing which I found quite confusing.  The NIS 
domain is completely independent from the internet domain.  For me, this 
wasn't really very clear anywhere.

Hope this helps,

John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: reed@prism.sps.mot.com (Tim Reed)
Subject: Re: Question on Exabyte 8500
Organization: SPS
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 15:28:38 GMT

In article <1992Oct14.072640.8849@netcom.com> ltran@netcom.com (Linh  
C Tran) writes:
> Help...
> 
> I am a novice user on Unix.  We have just install an Exabyte 8500  
on to
> an IPC via SCSI interface.  But when I enter this command:      
> 		mt -f /dev/rst1 status
> The message from the system indicates to me that it is a 
> 8200 not 8500 that we bought.  Is there a way for me to find out
> exactly what type of system it is short of removing the cover ?
> 
> Thanx in advance...
> 
> Linh 		ltran@netcom.com

I received a tip from the net some time ago. To access the 5Gb tape  
drive you must use st9 instead of st1. This is explained in the man  
page on st. BTW I'm running SunOS 4.1.2. I'm told that 4.1.1 cannot  
use the 5Gb tape, only 2Gb.

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Tim Reed
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From: yasu@ll.mit.edu (Alan Yasutovich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: C2security
Keywords: C2security
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:13:18 GMT
Organization: MIT Lincoln Laboratory

In article <1992Oct16.093607@siisun.epfl.ch> brossard@sic.epfl.ch writes:
>In article <1457@spader.cap.se>, lab@spader.cap.se (Lars Berntzon) writes:
>|> damon@etsun.tech.iupui.edu (Damon Beals) writes:
>|> 
>|> 
>|> >	I want to start running C2 security.  So my question is will
>|> >running C2 cause any problems.  Does it cause any problems with NIS.
>|> 
>|> >Also we are running around 300 Bw-NFS machine.  Will the bwnfsd handle
>|> >the password correctly.  
>|> 
>|> >Does anyone have any horror stories with changing to C2 security.
>
	I had to use C2 for a while until the regulations for us
	changed.  It was (believe it or not) one of my first admin
	taskes!  (Whew!)

	Had I had a clue, I would have just been able to follow the
	script, after everything was in the kernal.

	The real problem was the volume.  It never got looked at;
	just dumped on tape.  That's why the reg. changed.  They
	felt better about people having something that they examine,
	than just store away.

	Biggest problem?  Volume.  Runn daily scripts to open new
	log files and compress the old one.
-- 
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