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From: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Subject: Re: Problem in building kernel
Reply-To: rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner)
Cc: atul@yoko.rutgers.edu
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 21:05:51 GMT

In article <Oct.2.14.35.34.1992.8757@yoko.rutgers.edu> atul@yoko.rutgers.edu (Atul Sharma) writes:
>
>	In the file /usr/sys/sun/conf.c, I have made entry in the structure
>	cdevsw[] for the (pseudo)device bpfilter : [...]
>	compiling the file /usr/sys/sun/conf.c, gave the following errors:
>
>../../sun/conf.c", line 1114: warning: undeclared initializer name bpfopen
>"../../sun/conf.c", line 1114: warning: illegal combination of pointer and integ
>er, op =
>"../../sun/conf.c", line 1114: illegal initialization

If you go back and look at the early portions of conf.c, you will see that
every device has a section which tests that the device exists (NXXX>0) and
then declares the routines accordingly (real definitions if it exists, "nodev"
if it doesn't). You need a section like this for your pseudodevice.

If you don't have the necessary #include file, you should create one. Just
look at one of the others to see what it should look like.

Were detailed instructions for this not included with the software?
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Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: stephen@orchid.UCSC.EDU ()
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Moved console now how to setup????
Date: 4 Oct 1992 23:17:04 GMT
Organization: Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: orchid.ucsc.edu


I have a Sun 4/390 and have reassigned the console to ttya in
order to use a dumb term (wyse50), that went OK and it works fine.

What use to the console was a sun monitor with a cgsix frame buffer.
My problem now is; I have not been able to get a getty up and running
in order to use the sun console monitor and keyboard.

The keyboard is still connected to the CPU card and the monitor is 
of course plugged into the cgsix frame buffer.

What do I need in the ttytab file in order to get this arrangement
operational... the sun manuals do not give much in the way of info.
Just for additional info- cgsix is configured in to kernel and is 
seen on bootup.

thanks in advance for your solutions or advice

Stephen Hauskins
UCSC

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mat@unh.edu (Mike Thomas)
Subject: SunOS 4.1.1 - patches - SunOS 4.1.2?????
Organization: /home/mat/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 19:12:30 GMT


Does anyone know how I can get patches for SunOS 4.1.1???  I have
a 1.7gig drive and am having tons of problems with it under SunOS 4.1.1
I know I don't have any overlapping problems and the format.dat entry
is from Maxtor directly.  I've heard from some people that 4.1.1 had
a bug handling drives bigger than 1gig.

1st, can anyone from sun actually verify this???

2nd, can someone please tell me where I can get patches for 4.1.1 to
     fix this problem???

3rd, what is involved in getting 4.1.2??

Mike Thomas
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From: rcw@caspian.cc.vt.edu (R. Craig Woods)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Software Support for Sun Clones
Date: 6 Oct 92 13:37:22 GMT
Reply-To: rcw@caspian.cc.vt.edu (R. Craig Woods)

I work in the Virginia Tech Computing Center Purchasing department. 

I would like to hear from Sparc clone users about the type of support you  
have for Sun software.  For instance, if you have a DTK, Tatung, CompuAdd  
clone, whom do you call for assistance with the Sun Fortran compiler?   
Does the manufacturer provide the software support?  Were you able to  
purchase a support  agreement from Sun?  

When we bid Sun systems, we are receiving bids from clone manufacturers.   
The buyers want some assurance that they are getting an equivalent system,  
including the ability to purchase software support from Sun.

The clone vendors are telling me, 'of course you can purchase support from  
Sun.  We are selling you the Sun software and our machine is Sparc  
compliant.'  
The local Sun representative tells me the opposite, that 'in no way would  
Sun sell support for its software running on a clone.'



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: laubner@ipk.fhg.de (Guido Laubner)
Subject: Does SUN support POSIX.1 ?
Keywords: SUN sun sparc posix POSIX
Organization: IPK Berlin, Inst. fuer Produktionsanlagen- und Konstruktionstechnik der FHG
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 13:21:05 GMT


Hi,
i'm working with different partners in a european r&d - project for
robot simulation. Currently, we are studying whether the POSIX.1 standard
fulfills our requirements as an independent interface layer to operating 
system-dependent funcionalities.  Because there's a lot of different machines
and operating systems involved, i (badly) need some information on POSIX
on certain platforms.
One plattform is Sun ( Sparc 2 ). Here are my questions :

1. Does Sun support POSIX.1 ?

   I have to use the following system calls ( as specified in POSIX.1 ) :
      - creat     ( Creates a new file or rewrites an existing one )
      - unlink    ( Removes a directory entry )
      - open      ( Opens a file )
      - close     ( Closes a file )
      - read      ( Reads from a file )
      - write     ( Writes to a file )
      - fork      ( Creates a process )
      - execve    ( Executes a file )
      - wait      ( Waits for process termination )
      - waitpid   ( Waits for process termination too )
      - sigaction ( Examines and changes signal action )
      - kill      ( Send a signal to a process )
      - pipe      ( Creates an interprocess channel )

2. If Sun does not support POSIX.1, is it possible to simulate
   POSIX.1 - systemcall behaviour with existing systemcalls ?

3. If Sun does not support POSIX.1, do they want do to so ?
   Are there any anouncements ? When will they do ?

4. Is SunOs sys5-style or bsd-style unix ?

I thank you for any help, hints or comments one this questions.
Please reply via email. Thanks a lot !!
                                                Guido
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Guido Laubner                          Guido.Laubner@ipk.fhg.dbp.de
IPK Berlin                             Voice : +49 30 39006166
Dept. Robot Systems Technology
Pascalstrasse 8-9
1000 Berlin 10
Germany
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: daniel@vcp1.vcp.monash.edu.au
Subject: HELP: name server access and sendmail
Organization: 
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:31:10 GMT


We are having problems setting up sum Spacrstations on the Internet.
We have NIS running, but we can't seem to get the Suns to access the
local name server.  nslookup *does* access the nameserver, but
telnet and ftp don't.

Also, we are trying to make one of the Suns a mail server for PCs 
with POPMAIL.  Currently, we can't send mail properly either.  We
get messages like:

Never heard of ariel . ucs  in domain unimelb . edu . au, 
even when ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au is in /etc/hosts.

Suggestions, please?

Danny
From: osoelgaultier+@CMU.EDU (Stefan Monnier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Floppy and SUN3
Date: 1 Oct 92 18:41:56 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.4emvPoS00awA8FZrV6
Organization: Junior, Math/Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA


I have the opportunity to get a SUN3, but I need a floppy drive:
can such a beast (at least 1.44M of course) be used on a SUN3,
and at what price ?

Thanks !

	Stefan

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek Terveer)
Subject: compiling xbiff++ on 4.1.3
Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:26:00 GMT

I have managed to compile xbiff++ (I couldn't find a version number)
for SunOS 4.1.3 but, when run, it just gives me endless "inappropriate
ioctl for device" messages.  Has anybody got it running under 4.1.3?
And how did you do it?

Please reply to:	derekt@stpaul.gov

derek
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		Play:	det@hawkmoon.mn.org	+1 612 683 0413
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 they manufacture our consent while we destroy the environment."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: valerio@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (giovanni valerio)
Subject: PC-NFS, dos, clipper, HELP!needed
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:04:15 GMT
Summary: Problems with EndOfFiles in Shared DBase files

Hello,
I work with some PCs linked to 3 intergraph workstation and a Sun SparcStation
using PC-NFS to communicate with the server (one of the intergraph Unix machines)
We wrote an application using Clipper, it was born to run alone on a PC, then we transferred it on the server - along with the data, to allow for multiutence.
It usually works fine, there are times, however, when the program reports to 
have lost some records, tipically the trailing ten or so.
This seems to happen when there is concurrency in updating the records near
the end of the dbase files: what we discover - almost always - is an EOF at the
start of the first of "lost" records. So we manually correct it and it's ok till
the next time it happens...

We use PC-NFS version 3.1, with dos from 3.3 to 5.0.

I hope someone has any suggestion.

Thanks.

(if this is not the right place for the question, I apologize, please point at
 the right subgroup. - thanks again!)

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mat@unh.edu (Mike Thomas)
Subject: WANTED: Sun 4/2xx motherboard...
Organization: /home/mat/.organization
Distribution: comp
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:59:13 GMT


Subject says it all...  But, here's some background...

I have a Sun 3/2xx and have more or less been told that the last OS
for the Sun 3/2xx didn't fix a (at least now known) bug where the
system could address more than approx. 1.2gig.  I have a 1.7 gig
Maxtor Panther, which I can't use to its potential, so I'm looking for
a Sun4/2xx motherboard, with which I can just pull out my 3/2xx
motherboard and replace with a 4/2xx...  This will solve my problem
as Sun fixed the disk capacity problem for the SPARC's only...

NOTE: I am a student and can't afford to pay what some
      companies would like to get, but if you think you
      have a reasonable offer let me know.

PS If someone/company is in need of a Sun3/2xx motherboard
   and I can get a Sun4/2xx motherboard I'd be willing to
   work something out.

Thanks, Mike
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(*   InterOperabilty Lab               Internet: mat@unh.edu           *)
(*   University of New Hampshire       SERB Room 332 Durham NH 03824   *)
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From: tim.meade%theweb@meaddata.com (Tim Meade) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: VIRTUAL FILE SYSTEM
Date: 30 Sep 92 21:39:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: The Web BBS 1-513-436-9011 6 Lines 1200 News groups 50,000 files!
Reply-To: tim.meade%theweb@meaddata.com (Tim Meade) 

LOOKING FOR: information on the Virtual File System in SVR4 and Sun 4.x
and Sun Solaris.  Does any one know of a book or article that gives any
substantial information on its inner workings?  And more generally: does
anyone know of a good book or article on the SVR4 filesystem, in
general?

        Please email me any responses.

                        Thanx.
                                 Tim.
                                                                                                               
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Cheap X terminal sought
Summary: Anyone see this ad?
Keywords: X terminal advertisement
Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 21:55:58 GMT

I saw an ad in a recent Sun Expert
for a very cheap (around $1000) X-terminal.
Unfortunately, someone has "tidied up" my workbench,
disposing of all my magazines on the way.

I'd be really grateful if someone who saw the ad
could drop me a note,
as we are on the point of buying a few X-terminals,
to try and keep the students quiet.

My recollection is that the ad was a whole-page effort.

-- 
Timothy Murphy  
e-mail: tim@maths.tcd.ie
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
From: rlink@cedar.hao.ucar.edu (Richard Link)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: mailing list
Date: 5 Oct 92 15:23:08 GMT
Organization: High Alititude Observatory/NCAR, Boulder CO

I need to send mail to several hundred recipients.
I tried creating an alias, but vi complained about line length
when I tried separating the names by a space. The addresses are
in a file, one per line. What is the best way to do this?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Richard Link
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: warning: could not update utmp entry
Date: 2 Oct 1992 23:18:28 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <BvI7yu.M67@psych.toronto.edu> jarvis@psych.toronto.edu (Brian Jarvis) writes:
>A user just noted to me yesterday that when attempting to run "script",
>the following message appears:
>
>warning: could not update utmp entry

This means that script isn't setuid or setgid to a user/group that has
write access to /etc/utmp, and it's not world writable.  Therefore, it
can't update this file to show the user logged into the pty that it has
opened.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: astoker@nyx.cs.du.edu (Andrew Stoker)
Subject: Shared Libraries
Keywords: Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.1.1, X11R5 patch-level 17
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix @ U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 21:33:48 GMT


Hello netters, few questions on shared libraries...

First of all, I look through /usr/lib and have deduced that some of the
libraries consist of the files

	libblah.sa.A.B
	libblah.so.A.B		A.B. seems to be a version number?
	libblah.a
	libblah_p.a

BTW these are increasing order of size, the first is a couple of K, the last
two roughly the same size, in the tens or hundreds, the second seems to be
maybe 50 to 100K less than these two.

What I'd like to know initially, is how do they differ from what I see as
``normal'' libraries, which just have a libblah.a ?

Next, which of the above constitute the shared library?  Is it the first two
and the fourth?  What command do I use to compile C source into object code
suitable for a shared library?  How do I turn my object files into a shared
library?  And finally (that I can think of) do I need to keep the object
files hanging around once this is done?

This has initially been sparked by looking through X11 config files, and see
definitions for having shared libraries (I guess I have), and building the
X11, Xt etc. libraries as shared - what do I gain by doing this if at all?

	Thanks in advance for any answers,
		Andrew
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Leicester Uni.   | "Capital, we shall give you a horse that can't be ridden."
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mario@theglove.Canada.Sun.Com (Mario Dorion # extra topping $1.75)
Subject: Need to find 3rd party keyboard
Reply-To: mario@theglove.Canada.Sun.Com
Organization: Sun Microsystems du Canada
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 14:08:35 GMT


Hello folks!

I (urgently) need to find a 3rd party keyboard that would be compatible
with Sun's.

The only requirement I have is that this keyboard has to be smaller
(ie: not as large from left to right) than a regular type-4 keyboard.

All suggestions accepted! Thanks in advance.

--
Mario Dorion - Sun Montreal

    Allegedly seen on a PC clone:
    "Error 1301 - No keyboard. Press any key to continue..."
From: ats@bigfoot.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: Floppy and SUN3
Date: 4 Oct 92 13:03:53 GMT
Organization: GMD-FIRST, Berlin

In article <lcppqmINN4k1@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> marc@porsche944.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
>>I have the opportunity to get a SUN3, but I need a floppy drive:
>>can such a beast (at least 1.44M of course) be used on a SUN3,
>>and at what price ?
>
> The only time it was possable to have a Floppy drive on a Sun 3 was with and IPC card.
>The IPC card was a 9U 80286 based card for running DOS applications on a sun3. The 
>card came with two 1.2M floppies to read DOS compatable diskettes.
>
> 3.5" floppies did not become a standard issue on suns until the SparcStation 1. And the 
>drives are for personal data exchange between systems and reading DOS disks only and
>are not for (SPARC) software distribution.

Sorry, but that not true,
a chance to tell someone from SUN this, what a feeling :-).

The SUN 3/80 is for me a SUN3 also, and they came with one 1.44M floppy
in the chassis. This machine has the look of the sparcstation 1.
But this was the only SUN3 with a floppy, and also a machine that was
a flop like the sun386i.

Also at sometime, you had the chance to get the complete SUNOS on floppies
for the Sparcstation ( i think for the absolute masochists).

-- 
	  ATS ( ats@first.gmd.de or ats@cs.tu-berlin.de )

Andreas Schulz  GMD-FIRST     O-1199  Berlin-Adlershof  Rudower Chaussee 5
Gebaeude 13.7      Tel: 030-6704-2658
From: dodd@mycenae.cchem (Lawrence R. Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: What Solaris on a Sparc 10
Date: 3 Oct 92 08:08:51
Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: alh@einoed.in-berlin.de's message of Fri, 02 Oct 1992 11:17:10 GMT

>>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Le Hanne <alh@einoed.in-berlin.de> writes:

  Adrian> tito@di.unipi.it (Tito Flagella) writes:

>I would like to understand what preinstalled release of Solaris is Sun 
>shiping on a Sparcstation 10. Can anybody help?
  Adrian> Solaris 1.1 (?), which contains SunOS 4.1.3 and OpenWindows 3.0.

I think that is for the SS10 series 30. The series 40 and 50 will require
Solaris 2.x that last I heard.
From: wiesel@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de (Joachim Wiesel Ext. 2316)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Re: GIF Viewer for Sun/
Date: 30 Sep 92 13:32:38 GMT
Reply-To: wiesel@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de
Organization: IPF, University of Karlsruhe

get  'xv' from export.lcs.mit.edu  in directory 'contrib'

Joachim

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Universitaet  Karlsruhe, Englerstr. 7, D-7500 Karlsruhe, Germany
Phone: +49 721 608 2316                      Fax: +49 721 694 568
Internet: wiesel@ipf.bau-verm.uni-karlsruhe.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: Terminfo for "hpterm" for Sun4/330
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 00:30:38 GMT

In <60420003@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> toomajia@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Mark Toomajian) writes:

>When I rlogin to a SunSparcstation4/330 from an HP/Apollo400S, the Sun doesn't
>recognize the terminal. I can enter "hp", but vi doesn't work properly.

Try ``hp45''.
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: bilan@netcom.com (Steve Bilan)
Subject: running motif on top of OpenWindows
Organization: Netcom
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 20:37:24 GMT


I know it can be done, I did it a long time ago, but forgot how.
Does anybody know what steps to take to get Motif to run on
OpenWindows (in addition to replacing olwm with mwm in the
.xinitrc file)?  I assume I'm not setting up my .xinitrc file
correctly, but every configuration I try still fails.

If you've done this already, please e-mail and let me know what
you did to get it to work.  Thanks.




M, BATR..
..Steve Bilan

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mikulska@crux.Princeton.EDU (Margaret Mikulska)
Subject: Re: mailing list
Originator: news@nimaster
Reply-To: mikulska@astro.princeton.edu (Margaret Mikulska)
Organization: Princeton University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 19:14:52 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.152308.23150@ncar.ucar.edu> rlink@cedar.hao.ucar.edu (Richard Link) writes:
>I need to send mail to several hundred recipients.
>I tried creating an alias, but vi complained about line length
>when I tried separating the names by a space. The addresses are
>in a file, one per line. What is the best way to do this?

In /etc/aliases, or wherever you keep mail aliases, put:

maillist_name: :include:/usr/local/misc/maillist_file

where:
	* 'maillist_name' is the name of the mailling list (it's not an
	alias, technically speaking, but you use this name just like a
	mail alias);
	* 'maillist_file' includes the addresses of the recipients, 
	one per line (can be a local user name or a user@host address);
	* the location of this file is of course arbitrary.

Note the colons and the space between the 1st and 2nd colons, but no
spaces around the 3rd colon.


Margaret Mikulska
UNIX Systems Manager

Dept. of Astrophysical Sciences
Princeton University
mikulska@astro.princeton.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware.comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ertas@athena.mit.edu (Mehmet D Ertas)
Subject: How fast are SparcStation 10's REALLY?
Followup-To: ertas@athena.mit.edu
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 23:08:34 GMT

Hi,
Our group is considering buying a Sparcstation 10 system (Model 30 + an upgrade to
Model 52), but we need to run a sample FORTRAN code on one of these machines
to find out how fast it is. If anyone with an SS10 can spare ~10 minutes of CPU time on
their machine, I'd be very grateful. The source code is short and
memory requirements are very low--absolutely no graphics involved, acan be run in 
background. Also, I'd appreciate any comments/suggestions
related to these machines. Especially, does anyone have any idea how much
the machine performance improves when the second CPU module is added?
Basically, since they're very new, even the local
SUN dealer doesn't know much about this. (they don't even have the machine itself!)

Thanks a lot,

Deniz Ertas
From: schwer@unix.SRI.COM (Leonard E. Schwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: What does "Watch Dog Reset" mean?
Date: 1 Oct 92 03:51:47 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: APTEK, Inc., San Jose, CA

My SPARCstation ELC (Sun OS 4.1.1) has suddendly started to 
reboot spontaneously.

The only clue I have is the terse msg:

	Watch Dog Reset
	Window Overflow

followed by the usual system prompt to Boot, Continue, or New.
When I selected Continue, I got the additional msg

	Data Access Exception

Can some kind soul point me to a cause and fix? 
	Thanks,  --Len Schwer   schwer@unix.sri.com