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From: prastogi@netcom.com (Parag Rastogi)
Subject: How to set my modem in auto-answer modem on Sunsparc IPC
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 23:21:13 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: Modem, autoanswer, Sun


I am trying to set-up my sun sparcstation in auto-answer mode, when connected to
a hayes-compatible 1200 baud modem.
I have connected the modem to the ttya port. I would appreciate if someone who
has done this before can provide me some lead. 
Is there any software that helps you do this ?
Also, I am wondering which files need to be changed ie /etc/remote, /etc/ttytab
or any other files. What contents should I put in the file, so that when any remote 
client tries to login, he gets a login prompt with some header.

Thanks
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uncertain situations as sloppiness and vacillation are in familiar,
well-defined ones.  Those who admire the massive, rigid bone structures
of dinosaurs should remember that jellyfish still enjoy their very
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From: wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: OW3.0 installation is not funny (nor is 4.1
Date: 14 Apr 92 11:33:03 GMT
Organization: BSO/LT, Baarn, The Netherlands

In <peter.703210484@aucs> peter@aucs.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) 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.

>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.

Now, I had to install answerbook on 4.1.1B/OW2.0 just for the release notes
for the upgrade. And those release notes told me (erroneously) that I need an
extra 2MB for every client / directory. As if I keep that space wasted on the
export partition. It turned out (after calling Sun) that that is not true. But
I only had two days for the upgrade, those two days are over now, and I will
not be running 4.1.2, just good old 4.1.1B. Sun warned me against upgrading
instead of installing 4.1.2 completely from scratch.
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From: jeff@dspprd.sps.mot.com (Jeff Enderwick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: multiple disks per server and automount.
Date: 9 Apr 92 14:37:10 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: /tmp_mnt/auto/home_dsp/users/jeff/.organization


Hi! Dumb question ahead:

	I understand how sun has things set up so that using wildcards,
everyone's /home/hostname is accessible from any other machine. But what
if I have multiple disks ? What naming convention should be used for
follow on disks ? /home/hostname3 ? If that's it, then it would seem that
the wildcard scheme won't work anymore. At least not for the followon disks.

	thanks,

	jeff@dsp.sps.mot.com
From: jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Translucent Tears
Keywords: tfs, panic
Date: 9 Apr 92 05:11:56 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff AZ

Today I played with mount_tfs for the first time and tried to
solve a problem using translucent file systems.  I must say
I couldn't find very much documentation to help me.

What I had hoped to do was to make a "shadow" volume on an
nfs machine called orion.  We're finding ourselves squeezed
to death with a 207 internal drive, so I thought "Why not load
just the required /usr/openwin on the small machine and tfs
mount this in front of /orion/usr/openwin which has the full
openwindows set on it?"  This way, I hoped, we'd run the primary
files directly off the hard disk and be able to be up if and
when orion is down, but when orion is up have the full set of
openwindows available.

I tried this with /usr/local/bin and /usr/5lib and things seemed
to work just fine.  However, mounting /usr/openwin caused a panic
and then the kernel crashed:

mount_tfs /usr/openwin_tfs /orion/usr/openwin /usr/openwin

(/usr/openwin_tfs is the minimal openwin, /orion/usr/openwin the nfs
full openwin and /usr/openwin is an empty directory.)

I am assuming I'm abusing the capabilities of a translucent
file system.  /usr/openwin is a huge directory--perhaps it's
just too many files to for tfs to deal with?

Any hints on where to find better documentation or an explaination
as to why the kernel (4.1.2) crashed?  Anyone else doing anything
like this?  Do I simply have to give up and run openwin only on
the nfs drive?  (I've also thought of making a script to make
sym-links for all missing openwin items across to the nfs drive.
However, tfs seemed like it might offer a cleaner solution...)

Thanks ahead of time,
-- 
	John Campbell               jdc@naucse.cse.nau.edu
                                    CAMPBELL@NAUVAX.UCC.NAU.EDU
From: cd27@itri.bton.ac.uk (Chris Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Need Help inst XR4 -> SLC
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:18:54 GMT
Reply-To: cd27@itri.bton.ac.uk
Organization: ITRI, Brighton Polytechnic, UK

I am trying to install X11R4 on a Sun SPARCstation SLC running SunOS 4.1.1
direct from the 1991 SUG CD-ROM and am having a bit of trouble.  The
make World keeps trying to refer to a file called cg2reg from the
server/ddx/sun directory.  This file is not present on the SPARC
architecture (I have cg2,cg6 etc...).  I think it is looking for the
sun/4 configuration.  How can I change this ?  When installing from the
CD-ROM the file is naturally read only so I can't tailor the imake config
file (sun.cf). 
Should this install work directly or will I have to copy all the source 
to disk first and compile from there ?  Has anybody done this succesfully ?
Any ideas and suggestions gratefully accepted.

Thanks in Advance

Chris...


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From: biby@seas.gwu.edu (Rich Biby)
Subject: HELP: vi wants libc.so.20.1 -- I only got libc.so.18.1 ??!?!
Originator: biby@seas.gwu.edu
Organization: George Washington University
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 00:23:05 GMT

OK - take my sys-admin title away! I'm sorry to bother
all the truly capable sys-admins out there, but...

What is wrong? where did I miss a ldconfig?

Do you beleive this simple question? I still program FORTRAN...

Thanks for any help.

Rich

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From: jwbirdsa@amc.com (James Birdsall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: No graphics screen on my 3/60 (A virtual X server) HELP!
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:51:09 GMT
Organization: Applied Microsystems, Redmond, WA

In article <1992Apr15.163943.737@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> jel8@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Jason E Levine) writes:
>In article <haines.703339262@phyast.nhn.uoknor.edu> haines@pixel.nhn.uoknor.edu (Mark Haines) writes:
>:Ever since I started way back when with the
>:installation of SunOS 4.1.1 on the 3/60 when I first got it, I haven't gotten
>:anything graphical to work on it. No sunview, no openwindows, no X11R4, and
>:now no X11R5.
>
>I am going to install SunOS 4.1.1 Rev B onto my Sun 3/60 this weekend, and
>would appreciate it if anyone who figures this out passes the knowledge
>along to me.  If I have any troubles, I'll let y'all know.... and if I
>don't, I'll let y'all know, too..... Thanks in advance.

   Well, I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on a Sun 3/60. It was a complete
installation on a new disk. Sunview and openwindows run just fine for me,
so it's certainly possible to do. They work OK with both the generic kernel
and a tiny kernel with almost everything stripped out.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ba02498@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Christopher E. Bush)
Subject: OpenWindows on 4/490 console
Originator: ba02498@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
Organization: State University of New York at Binghamton
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 14:30:09 GMT

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.

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From: jstewart@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Ace Stewart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Running a fingerd with the -m option as default
Date: 7 Apr 92 15:01:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: newstand.1992Apr7.110123.10632
Distribution: usa
Organization: Syracuse Univ/Eastman Kodak Co.


We're running a large NIS environment here, and would rather not
disable the finger command entirely. However, if the fingerd could be
run by default with the "-m" flag for outside incoming requests, it
would absorb a lot less CPU.

Configuration: Sun670 running SunOS 4.1.2 -- 5200 line NIS. The finger
-m option works great locally, but the -m flag doesn't pass over the
networks. I was wondering whether or not there is a replacement beasty
that would help.

Any help is appreciated. Thanx!

John Stewart
Senior UNIX/VMS Consultant
Academic Computing Services
Syracuse University
(315) 443-3995
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: shankar@rss.dl.nec.com (Uday Shankar)
Subject: Re: Problems after SunOS4.1.2 Upgrade
Organization: NEC America
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:57:49 GMT


> ld: Undefined symbol

You could try running a "ldconfig" from the root user id.

Also, try running ranlib on your libraries, although I doubt if
that'll help.

Uday
______________________________________________________________
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NEC - Supervisory Systems    (214) 907-4494
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"go flying, put a spin on life"
From: msirota@ee.rochester.edu (Mark Sirota)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: /usr/etc/chill
Date: 7 Apr 92 19:15:53 GMT
Reply-To: Mark Sirota <msirota@socrates.ee.rochester.edu>
Organization: University of Rochester Department of Electrical Engineering

What is this program /usr/etc/chill that I find on all of my SunOS 4.1.1
machines?  There's no man page for it.

It's setuid to root, so I got worried that it's not supposed to be there,
but it's on every machine I can find.

A strings(1) of it says nothing particularly useful, other than that it has
three options and does something with _maxmem from the namelist of /vmunix.

Does anyone know what it does?  Is it legit?  Why isn't there any
documentation?

Thanks for any help.
-- 
Mark Sirota - Department of Electrical Engineering Systems Staff
University of Rochester, Rochester NY
 Internet: msirota@ee.rochester.edu
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From: sbellan@claude.ma30.bull.com (Simon Bellan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Formatting a 1.2Gb CDC Wren VII disk
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:24:40 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Bull HN, Worldwide Information Systems, Billerica, Mass., USA



Hi,

We installed a CDC Wren VII scsi disk on a Sun4 running SunOS 4.1.2.
When I formatted it I got back only about 850 Mb diskspace. I formatted 
the disk following the specification that the sun provided in their 
format.dat file 

disk_type = "CDC Wren VII 94601-12G" \
	: ctlr = SCSI : fmt_time = 4 \
	: cache = 0x11 : trks_zone = 15 : asect = 5 : atrks = 30 \
	: ncyl =  1703 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1931 : nhead = 15 : nsect = 80 \
	: rpm = 3597 : bpt = 41301


The disk used to be on a different system, and the disk space was over
1 Gb approximately. When I called the sun support system, they said
that I only can get back about 850 Mb from this kind. I know that is
not true because it used to be installed on a different system as I 
mentioned earlier.

Is there another definition for this kind disk where If I format it
I will not loose 30% of the diskspace?
If there is a solution for this kind disk, please send me mail.

Thank You

B. S. Bellan


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From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: mt -f /dev/nrst0 retension does not work for Exabyte
Date: 6 Apr 92 19:41:43 GMT
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa

In article <1608@ltb.ltb.bso.nl> wierda@ltb.ltb.bso.nl (Gerben Wierda) writes:
>See subject. How can I do this forward/backward movement that is advised by
>Exabyte when this command gives "inapproopriate ioctl for device?"

Try "mt -t /dev/nrst0 rew" and "mt -t /dev/nrst0 fsf 1" a few times.

(Actually, one should be sufficient.)

pww
From: tching@caldwr.water.ca.gov (Tracy Ching)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: more, vi, etc. scroll too many lines
Keywords: HELP!
Date: 10 Apr 92 17:40:34 GMT
Organization: Calif. Dept. of Water Resources, Sac.


	I telnet into a SUN IPC.  When I run "vi" or "more", my screen
scrolls about 38 lines. (sometimes it scroll about 60 lines at a time)
My term is vt-100.  The definition of my vt100 is 24 lines.  Somewhere 
my lines=24 gets lost.  I telnet into a dozen other machines and have
no problems so I assume my IBM/PC telnet software is OK.

	Any possible problems and/or solutions you can give would be
appreciated.  I'm at my ropes end and can't figure it out. (also are
unable to use vi)

tching@water.ca.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: andy@mks.com (Andy Toy)
Subject: Re: 4.1.2 cron and daylight savings time (Fixed by patch 100520-01)
Keywords: cron, die, daylight, savings, time
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 12:34:59 GMT

The cron patch seems to have worked.  My cron was still running fine
after DST started.  Here's the README from the patch.

Patch-ID# 100520-01
Keywords: cron, die, daylight, savings, time
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1: Cron dies when daylight savings time STARTS/STOPS
Date: 2/Mar/92
 
SunOS release:  4.1.1
 
Topic: daylight savings time causes problems for cron
 
BugId's fixed with this patch:  1031907

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3 & sun4 (all)

Patches which may conflict with this patch: n/a 

Note: 

Obsoleted by:

Problem Description: 
   If there are cron events scheduled for the time that will disappear
   when daylight savings time starts, they will be scheduled for a time
   practically in future infinity.  This is because timelocal() returns
   -1 if given a gmt that falls into the 'non-existant' time period.
   This value of -1 was being used as the 'next time' of the event.
   As far as time values go, it's either a very long time ago or some
   time far into the future.

   Note that 'at' will not allow you to schedule jobs during this
   time period.

   With this patch, jobs that would fall into this 'offset' period are
   scheduled `later', e.g. the daylight-savings-time offset is added
   to their event time. If the offset is one hour, for example, then
   one hour is added.  If there are cron jobs scheduled for the
   hour following the 'offset' period, those jobs will also be run
   during the same hour.


INSTALL:

1) Login as root

2) Kill cron:
   a) ps -aux | egrep cron
   b) note the process ID (pid) of cron
   c) kill -TERM <pid>

3) cp /usr/etc/cron /usr/etc/cron.FCS

4) cp cron /usr/etc/cron

5) restart cron
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From: chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu (Chris Webster)
Subject: Re: OW3.0 installation is not funny (nor is 4.1
Reply-To: chris@chinook.atd.ucar.edu
Organization: Research Aviation Facility, NCAR, Boulder, CO
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 19:59:39 GMT


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.

--Chris
From: galpmn01@ngals011.bnr.ca (galpmn01)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: UUCP on SunOS
Date: 16 Apr 92 14:25:44 GMT
Reply-To: user@hostname
Organization: Northern Telecom, Galway, Ireland.


 
 Anyone using UUCP ? I am attempting to connect 
 over a modem from a sun Sparc 2. Uutry -r host
 succeeds in connecting to the host and logging 
 in, but the connection then fails after 10 tries
 of:

 pkcget: alarm 1
 alarm while looking for SYN -- request RXMIT
 send CNTL, INITA, val 7
  ...and thats it !! Is there a stty setting 
 I need ? Something specific to SunOS 4.1.2
 uucp?  Any Ideas appreciated.
 Peter
From: fwp@Jester.CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: 4.1.1 -> 4.1.2 upgrade with Online:Disksuite?
Date: 16 Apr 92 07:01:58 GMT
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University

Has anyone used sunupgrade to upgrade a 4.1.1B system running
Online:Disksuite to 4.1.2 yet?  We have a 490 server with several
gigabytes of disksuite filesystems.  It seems logical that we should be
able to do the upgrade, reinstall the disksuite software and make a new
kernel and put our current config files in place and be upgraded
without having to rebuild our metadisks and reload data from backup.

Seems logical but I'd feel a LOT better if I heard from someone
who has already done it.  It could mean the difference between
two hours and two days of work.

--
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Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
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From: kswatek@su19az.ess.harris.com (Ken Swatek)
Subject: Re: PC Xterminal access to SunOS 4.1 OW 2.0
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Reply-To: kswatek@su19az.ess.harris.com
Organization: Harris (Government Aerospace Systems)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 15:52:51 GMT

---
Try using "xdm".  It will eliminate some of your steps.  Also by adding
the following to the users .login file, it will automatically start olwm.

Add to .login:

    if ($term == 'xterm') $HOME/.Xsession 2>/dev/null

--------------------------------
Xsession:

#! /bin/sh
# .Xsession - X-Windows startup script.

#/usr/local/bin/olvwm -3 &
$OPENWINHOME/bin/olwm -3 &		# OpenLook Window Manager (3-D look)

if [ -x $HOME/.MicroX-init ]; then
    exec $HOME/.MicroX-init		# Custom X-Windows tools
fi
xhost + `hostname` >/dev/null
# Load image onto root window
#/usr/local/bin/xloadimage -onroot -fit -full /usr/local/images/gif/fantasia.gif >/dev/null
---------------------------------
MicroX-init:

#!/bin/csh
# .Microx-init - MicroX initialization script.
#
set path=(/usr/local/bin /usr/openwin/bin $PATH)
#
contool -Wp 175 0 -Ws 575 245 -WP 785 0 -Wi -Wl '<< CONSOLE >>' -WL CONSOLE -bg red &
shelltool -Wp 200 85 -Ws 595 605 -WP 930 130 +Wi &
clock -Wp 840 0 -Ws 150 85 -WP 930 0 -Wi +Wn -24 -digital +date -r -alarmtime 0:0 &
mailtool -Wp 60 0 -Ws 585 206 -WP 860 0  -Wi &
cm -Wp 0 120 -Ws 620 550 -WP 930 65 -Wi &
-----------------------------------------

I hope this helps,
Ken
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From: brucec@comix.cs.uoregon.edu (C Bruce Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: bashed passwd file
Date: 11 Apr 92 14:48:51 GMT
Organization: University of Oregon Computer and Information Sciences Dept.

I was a little fast and loose with /etc/passwd on my 4.1.1 SPARC2
NIS master the other day and destroyed the file (actually I just
EMPTIED it.) Well, I gagged, went to single user, and lo and behold,
it had reappeared, owned by sysdiag, in almost perfect condition.
I monkied with it a bit with vi, went multi-user,and all was fine.

My question is, what saved me? I destroyed the file with emacs,
and both passwd and passwd~ were bashed. I asked Sun Support. They
said they didn't know. I have NIS slaves with passwd maps, but
this critter saved the file while booting single user, so I don't
see how the master could have loaded and converted the map from
a slave.

Thanks for your response.

-bruce



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