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From: leif@ifm.liu.se (Leif Hedstrom)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SUMMARY: Exabyte rewinding...
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:33:28 GMT
Organization: Dept of Physics, University of Linkoping


I got a lot answer to my question on how to make several dumps to our exabyte,
without having the "old" files overwritten.

The "trick" is to use /dev/nrst# instead of /dev/rst#, which is explained
in the manual page for st [thanks arne]

You still get the message "Tape Rewinding", which can be ignored. The verify
option of dump is said to work as intended with the non-rewinding device.

Thanks to:
bo@lysator.liu.se, Torsten.Lif@eos.ericsson.se, romig@cis.ohio-state.edu,
peabo@homxa.att.com, hdw@mtek.chalmers.se and arnfa@ida.liu.se. [I might
have missed someone, so thanks to you all! ;-]

-- Leif
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From: labman@ecr.mu.oz.au (Bruce Robertson)
Subject: Re: Mail won't recognize users
Summary: It sendmail.cf
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 22:11:18 GMT

In article <1992Apr07.170527.61407@yuma.acns.colostate.edu>, arvidson@lagrange (John Arvidson  ) writes:
> 
>                                                       
> the new machine ok but the new machine always responds 'user
> unknown' and it does so immediately (see example below).  The mail
> works fine locally and mail gets sent out to other machines properly,
> just this one problem.  One difference between this machine and the
> other machines in our dept is that it is running sunos 4.1.2 and
> the others are running 4.1.1.  Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 

 Check out sendmail.cf........

 Entry MLocal  ---some---guf-----
             ^
             You may have a comma here
   If so remove it.

 Kill -9 sendmail.pid
 sendmail -bz   (if you want to run thus)
 restart sendmail

 Obviously there has been a change in sendmail
 somewhere since OS4.1.1 wanted the comma
 OS4.1.2 Doesnt want the comma. 

 When working with freeze file anyway.

 regards
  Bruce Robertson                               | labman@gondwana.ecr.mu.OZ.AU
  Department of Engineering Computer Resources, | labman@128.250.1.63
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From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: operating environment temperature range for Sun3 and 4
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:29:56 GMT
Reply-To: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu
Distribution: usa

Our A/C is on the fritz in our machine room.  From practical experience, what  
is the maximum acceptible room temperature for running a Sun 3/60 and a Sun  
4/330?

Please respond via email, if you please.

Thank you.

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From: matt@centerline.com (Matt Landau)
Subject: Re: ls -l replies "Arguments too long."
Organization: CenterLine Software, Inc.
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 12:58:43 GMT

In <1992Apr8.134508.34813@eds.ericsson.se> etxfrick@eds.ericsson.se writes:

>I have a group of user who share a set of files. Today one of them was
>complaining about lacking write permissions on some of these files.
>As he was perfectly right I tried to a 'chmod 664' on this particular
>set of files. But.... the only answer I get is: "Arguments too long."
>Huh?

The message is coming from the shell, not from ls.  Most shells
have a limit on the length of an input line (often it's around 
10,240 characters), and if you exceed it, the shell complains.

Sounds like this is a *large* set of files, or you're sitting 
in a directory somewhere and typing "chmod 664 /foo/bar/baz/*", 
so that the string "/foo/bar/baz" is appearing in the input line 
once for each file.

Two solutions come to mind:

    *  Make sure you're in the directory where the files reside,
       so the wildcarded argument to chmod expands into as few
       characters as possible.

    *  Use xargs, which was written for just this purpose.  It 
       reads a set of words from standard input and applies its
       command line to them; it will spwan multiple commands 
       if required to avoid overflowing the shell's input line
       length.  You can use find to enumerate all the files in
       question without overflowing the input line, too, so 
       something like this ought to work:

	% find . -name '*.xyzzy' -print | xargs chmod 0664

Hope this info helps...
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From: lkn@s1.gov (Leland K. Neely)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8200 Rejects Tapes
Date: 16 Apr 92 15:33:06 GMT
Article-I.D.: s1.1992Apr16.153306.982
Organization: LLNL

In article <tkevans.703430057@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com writes:
>I have an Exabyte which periodically (once a week or so) decides
>to reject all tapes, spitting them out as soon as you insert
>them and close the door.  We're running an automated dump
>script, the last command in which is "mt offline"
>which normally kicks the tape drive door open.  Inserting a
>new tape the next morning is normally no problem, but periodically
>the above-described happens.  When it does, mt reports that
>the drive is offline, of course.  And, since it rejects a
>new tape, it remains "offline."
>
>Nothing short of a reboot seems to cure this problem and,
>naturally, this seems a sledgehammer approach.  Anyone have
>a solution?  Thanks.

Tim,
	Two things come to mind:
	1) There are certain tapes that won't always work in the
	   Exabyte drives.  What tapes are you using? (We've had
	   to switch to Exabyte data tapes only.)
	   When the others are used, the drive spits them out.
	   The 8500 tape drives are more particular than the 8200's.

	2) Some tape units have a reset.  I have one tape unit that
	   is fussy.  If I insert a tape in too big of a hurry,
	   it spits it, and all subsequent tapes out.  I can either
	   reset the unit or power cycle it.  This does not necessitate
	   a reboot.  I wouldn't do this if the machine is scsi disk
	   based... ANYWAY., with this drive, I just take my time and
	   it stays happy.  Weird no?  

Good Luck
Lee
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From: pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com (Paul B. Henninger)
Subject: odd behaviour of apps on Sun w/ multiple ethernet interfaces
Keywords: automount, sendmail
Reply-To: pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:07:27 GMT

(this didn't appear to get posted the first time, so i'm sending it again...)

i am observing some odd behaviour with automount and sendmail on a Sun
4/690 with multiple ethernet interfaces.  can someone provide an explanation,
correction, or RTFM reference?

with automount, the entry "/mnt -hosts" in auto.master allows a user to
cd to /mnt/MACHINENAME and have all exported filesystems of MACHINENAME
mounted locally.  this works fine for the primary interface name on the
4/690 (called "jupiter", on le0) - "cd /mnt/jupiter" results in a link
under /mnt of "jupiter -> //".  ok so far.  but "cd /mnt/europa" (where
europa is the name associated with le1) actually remounts all the local
filesystems under /tmp_mnt/mnt/europa!  this machine has seven ethernet
interfaces, and many local filesystems, so this can become a problem.
why doesn't automount recognize that the filesystems are local, and how
can i get it to recognize this?  would 'amd' exhibit this behaviour?

with sendmail (on to the next question), if mail is sent to pbh@europa
(same interfaces names as before) it bounces with the error:

>>      ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>>   Connected to europa:
>>   >>> HELO jupiter.cfsmo.honeywell.com
>>   <<< 553 jupiter.cfsmo.honeywell.com host name configuration error
>>   554 pbh@europa... Service unavailable

mail sent to pbh@jupiter is routed fine. i am using the standard Sun
sendmail.subsidiary.cf configuration file and sendmail binary.  any
ideas?

please respond via e-mail.  thanks for your help.  i will post a
summary if there is interest.

-----------------------------------------------------------
paul henninger
pbh@cfsmo.honeywell.com
honeywell, commercial flight systems
8840 evergreen blvd   mpls, mn 55433
From: mferrare@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Mark Ferraretto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Net problems on ELC
Date: 6 Apr 92 07:44:38 GMT

I have an ELC with 24MB RAM and a 1.3GB disk running 4.1.1

It is a dataless client.  When I try to log in I get the following

terry login: mferrare
Password: (type in passwd)
<pause for abt 30 secs>
rpc: RPC: Timed out
login incorrect

This happens whenever the passwd file is accessed.  NIS is running OK.  ypwhich
returns the server and dommainname is correct.  I can log into terry by putting
it in my .rhosts ie passwd file is not accessed.  I've tried taking the +: out
of /etc/passwd and /etc/security/passwd.adjunct (I'm running C2secure).  No 
messages are posted in /var/adm/messages about this.

Does anybody have any ideas

Thanks in advance
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From: belonis@phys.washington.edu (Jim Belonis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sun NIS startup too late during boot
Date: 16 Apr 92 21:58:12 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: University of Washington

I have problems with Sun NIS starting up too late during boot.
I have several SunOS 4.1.1 SparcStation II's.
Most of them have erratic problems during boot with NIS not starting quickly enough
so inetd starts without NIS and does not know about some service numbers
typically printer and rlogin.

Our NIS server is a MIPS 3230, not a Sun.  Our other machines (MIPS and DECstations)
do not have this late startup problem.

I tried the following in rc.local immediately after NIS startup as recommended by someone
I trust, but ypwhich does not seem to have anything to do with triggering NIS binding.
#
#       trigger NIS binding early
#
echo -n ' NIS domain: ' ; ypwhich

I have also tried to work around the problem by putting the following code in
/etc/rc
just before inetd startup.  (it got added about one line a month as failures recurred).

# Try to trigger NIS binding so inetd gets services map.
echo -n "NIS server: "; /usr/bin/ypwhich;
echo "trying ls -l to trigger NIS."
ls -l /home    #> /dev/null
echo -n "NIS server: "; /usr/bin/ypwhich;
echo -n " 30 second wait for NIS " ; /usr/bin/sleep 30 

But nothing seems to work consistently.  I now have up to 60 seconds delay
on one machine which has not had a problem since, but I am afraid this is just a kludge.

Does anyone have the real scoop on what the problem is and what the best solution is ?


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From: kapela@prism.poly.edu (Theodore S. Kapela)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Can GNU C be used as a replacement for /bin/cc in SunOS 4.1.2?
Summary: SunOS 4.1.2 (Solaris 1.0.1) *DOES* include cc
Date: 8 Apr 92 13:44:04 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Polytechnic University, New York

In article <1992Apr8.120735.29049@trantor.harris-atd.com> ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter) writes:
>
>SunOS 4.1.2 is also Solaris 1.0.1. The Sun C compiler is not bundled
>with that version of OS and 
>must be purchased separately. I am now to familiar with that as we just
>purchased an SS2 with 
>that rev and had to also by Sun C1.0 for it.
>

You must have missed something.  I am currently running SunOS 4.1.2, and
it most definitely *DOES* include cc.  The C compiler is not due
to be unbundled until Solaris 2.0.  Of course, the unbundled compiler
has been available for quite some time now, but that does not mean that
there was no compiler bundled with the OS.


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From: buzz@fsrg.bear.com (Buzz Moschetti)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: OpenWindows on 4/490 console
Date: 16 Apr 92 01:01:39 GMT
Organization: Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.
In-reply-to: ba02498@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu's message of 14 Apr 92 14:30:09 GMT

In article <1992Apr14.143009.11335@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu> ba02498@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Christopher E. Bush) writes:

   Hi,
       I am experiencing trouble starting up OpenWindows (either 2.0 or 3.0) on
   the monochrome graphics console.  My environment (OPENWINHOME, etc.) is set up
   properly, because I have no troubles on the other servers or any of our 
   workstations.  When I try to run openwin on the server's console, the opening
   screen comes up, the keyboard lights flash (like normal), and then the screen
   returns to its normal tty mode, and the following messages appear:

   X11/NeWS: there is already an X11 server running on :0 giving up

   /usr/openwin/bin/xinit: interrupted system call (errno 4): unable to connect to X server

   So I tried running openwin -d :1, and that works (sometimes, sometimes it 
   gives the same type of errors).

   Has anyone seen this type of thing before?  I have tried getting help from 
   Sun, but so far they haven't figured it out.

Try deleting the AF_UNIX domain sockets that the window systems creates in
/tmp/.NeWS-unix and /tmp/.X11-unix.  Something (xinit, kernel, ???) might
be keeping these things open...


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From: barrett@theo.serum.kodak.com (Chris Barrett (x37253))
Subject: Formatting out going mail
Organization: Clinical Products Division, Eastman Kodak Company
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 15:28:13 GMT

Is there a way to format all out-going mail to a specific number of
columns or at least for a specific transfer method such as VMS?  Our
Vaxes barf on any mail text that goes beyond the 80th column.

Chris
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From: remonen@tkk.tele.fi (Matti Remonen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Possible FAQ but help needed with resolver and SunOS 4.1.2
Date: 2 Apr 92 06:29:29 GMT
Organization: Telecom Finland, Helsinki

This is almost certainly a FAQ but I have not been following this group
before.

I installed SunOS 4.1.2 to Sparc2 and it works otherwise ok but I cant get
resolver working. /etc/resolv.conf has been filled correctly with domainname
and with nameserver names. nslookup works like a charm but telnet and ftp
sessions do not find any machines out of our own domain.

I've heard that somewhere there is a patch to libraries. If this is true, 
where it can be obtained and it would be also nice if the instructions
how to make the patch were also included.

Thank you,

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From: trudel@dartagnan.rutgers.edu (Jonathan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: OW3.0 installation is not funny (nor is 4.1
Date: 14 Apr 92 14:34:58 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.

In article <1992Apr13.195939.13032@ncar.ucar.edu> chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu (Chris Webster) writes:

> We also received no documents on how to install 4.1.2 or OpenWin 3.0
> just CD's.  We were definatly not happy about it.

If you check the shipping order, you'll see that they're backordered.
I got the manuals a month before I saw any CDs.
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From: todd@draco.macsch.com (Todd C. Williams)
Subject: Re: OW3.0 installation is not funny (nor is 4.1
Organization: MacNeal-Schwendler Corp.
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 08:19:17 GMT

In article <1626@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>In <peter.703210484@aucs> peter@aucs.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
>>>[received no 4.1.2 or OWv3 docs; not happy]
>>I received manuals for both and both installed without incident....
>Upgrade or install? Anyway, I would have received a meter of books if I had
>chosen to do so. It would have cost me $$$. I don't mind that everything is on
>CD. But I expect at least "release notes" and "installation instructions" to
>be on paper.  I had to install answerbook on 4.1.1B/OW2.0 just for the release
>notes. Sun warned me against upgrading instead of installing 4.1.2 frm scratch.

I received 4.1.2 with ONE updated "4.1.2 release and install manual".  I got
complete docs with OWv3 (install/release/user/etc).  Both installed very
easily, both as upgrades and complete installs.  It didn't cost me anything.
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From: jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine)
Subject: SunOS 4.1.1 requirements...
Organization: _Spectator_, Columbia University
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 07:03:00 GMT

I was wondering how much disk space SunOS 4.1.1 requires on a Sun 3/60.
I have to install it on a relatively full system in the near future.  I
would appreciate both estimates and responses from people who have
installed it themselves.  Thanks a lot.

				/ Jason Levine

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From: etxfrick@eds.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: summary: ls -l replies "Arguments too long."
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:03:27 GMT
Organization: Ericsson Printed Circuits Mfg.

I got a few replies regarding my question why I got
"Arguments too long" from an 'ls -l *.file'. Most
people suggested a combination of 'find' and some
other commands. The best result was obtained from
a suggestion from Matt Landau (matt@centerline.com)

His solution was to use
% find . -name '*.xyzzy' -print | xargs chmod 0664
which worked great.

Just as a clarification:
I tried to do the 'chmod' in same directory where the
files resides, ie. no long paths, and the longest filename
is approx. 35 character.

Thanx to all who responded!

--Stefan 
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From: damon@ethomeiupui.edu (Damon Beals)
Subject: HP DraftPro Plotter /etc/printcap
Keywords: HP DraftPro 
Reply-To: damon@tnt.cadcam.iupui.edu  
Organization: Purdue University School of Enginering & Technology at Indianapolis
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 92 19:36:20 GMT

  Hey before I bang my head on my monitor after trying several configs.

  Does anyone have a printcap entry for a HP DraftPro??? If you
do please share it with me.  

  Thanks Damon

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From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
Subject: getting yppasswd to update automatically
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 92 12:09:41 GMT

I know this has been covered time and time again, but unfortunately I haven't
been bright enough to save the discussions.

What I need to find out is how to make the yppasswd map update automatically
in NIS when a user issues the yppasswd command.  As it stands now, it 
doesn't update unless root does a 'make'.  I seem to remember someone 
mentioning a "-nosingle" option (to yppasswd), but that wasn't the only
necessary change.

If someone could clue me in on this I'd appreciate it.  This is SunOS 
4.1.1 or 4.1.2.

Thanks!
Bill
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From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Running a fingerd with the -m option as default
Date: 13 Apr 92 02:31:56 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central


 Barry> == Barry Margolin <barmar@think.com> 

 Barry> Rename /usr/ucb/finger to finger.REAL, and then create a shell
 Barry> script named /usr/ucb/finger that executes '/usr/ucb/finger.REAL
 Barry> -m "$*"'.

Or, so that /usr/ucb/finger doesn't do -m locally, you could edit the
fingerd binary so it runs "/usr/ucb/fonger" or something, and make
*that* the shell script described above.
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