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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: blaak@csri.toronto.edu (Raymond Blaak)
Subject: setting 8500 and 8200 modes on exabyte drive
Summary: How does one do it in SunOS?
Keywords: exabyte 8500 8200
Date: 9 Oct 92 13:56:24 GMT

According to the manual, one can choose to write in high density mode (8500
mode) or low density mode (8200 mode) on an exabyte tape drive as long as one
is at the beginning of the tape. 

However, I have a collection of 8200-formatted tapes that I would like to use
at high density. All my attempts to write to them, however, result in low
density mode. I can only get high density mode if I start off with a brand
new tape.

How can one control the density mode in SunOs 4.1.1 (or 4.1.2)? I am thinking
that I will have to send the SCSI commands directly myself - something I
don't really want to do.

Are there some changes to the /usr/sys/sundev/streg.h file that I can do to
reconfigure the SCSI tape driver?

Perplexed,
Ray Blaak

blaak@csri.toronto.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland)
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100%
Nntp-Posting-User: per
Organization: Ellemtel Telecom Systems Labs, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 19:47:37 GMT

In article <1992Oct7.131720.13429@ericsson.se> etxorst@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif) writes:
>Or you can newfs the partition with -m 0 which will get rid of the 10 %
>loss. But net.wisdom has it the disk performance will be abyssimal when
>you get to where that space is used, due to fragmentation & thrashing.
>And of course, doing a newfs does entail doing a backup (dump) first
>and then reading it back with restore after the newfs. }:->

You don't need to newfs the partition to set minfree to 0, only umount -
RTF tunefs(8) M:-). Performance will indeed degrade though, which I've
recently been able to verify on my news spool... - also it's an
"interesting" experience to get "file system full" even as superuser
while df reports plenty of free space - it was effectively unusable due
to fragmentation.

If you nevertheless decide to go below 10% minfree on a partition which
has any amount of activity, you'd better set "space" optimization using
the (undocumented) -o option to tunefs - it will tell you that you
should, but not how... If I remember correctly, the 4.3 BSD kernel will
switch automatically between "space" and "time" whenever you cross the
10% line, dunno why SunOS doesn't (this is all on 4.1.1).

--Per Hedeland
per@erix.ericsson.se  or
per%erix.ericsson.se@sunic.sunet.se  or
...uunet!erix.ericsson.se!per
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mahesh@evb.com (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: Cannot compile POP server ....
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT Inc.
Affiliate-Of: EVB Software Engineering, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 18:31:52 GMT

I am trying to install POP3 (Post office Protocol) on my Solbourne. 
I have gcc2.2.  When I try to compile I get the following message,

gcc: unrecognized option `-shlib'
pop_updt.c:8: warning: unknown escape sequence `\ '

Also, while linking I get the error message,

cc  pop_dele.o pop_dropinfo.o pop_get_cmd.o  pop_get_scmd.o pop_init.o pop_last.o
pop_list.o  pop_log.o pop_lower.o pop_msg.o pop_parse.o pop_pass.o  pop_quit.o pop
_rset.o pop_send.o pop_stat.o pop_updt.o  pop_user.o pop_xtnd.o pop_xmit.o popper.
o  util.o -o popper -L../lib -lbsd -lsyslog -lnet
ld: -lbsd: No such file or directory

I tried -lsysv but it did not work. Am I missing something?

thanks

-- 

B.G. Mahesh
mahesh@evb.com
From: tibbs@karazm.math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100% full?
Date: 7 Oct 92 23:24:40 GMT
Organization: Blob Shop Programmers

Alright.  I've been admonished for not R'ing TFM.  Unfortunately, I should
be admonished for not giving enough information.

The min. free had long ago been set by tunefs to 5%.  Root cannot write to
the partition anyway.  I think I'll backup and reinstall, just to make sure
nothing's blown up.

Thanks for all of the spirited discussion.
--
 Jason L. Tibbitts III - tibbs@math.uh.edu - 713/743-3466 - 685PGH
System Administrator:  University of Houston Mathematics Department
 Houston Centers for Advanced Scientific and Molecular Computation
Blob Shop Programmers: Database consulting and graphics programming
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lwk@engin.umich.edu (Lewis W Kellum)
Subject: NFS: AIX3.2.2 mount of SunOS 4.1.2 partion bombs
Date: Fri, 09 Oct 92 10:34:07 EDT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor

We have encountered a problem with RS6000s running AIX 3.2.2 trying 
to mount partitions of Sun4s & Sun4cs running SunOS 4.1.2. The mount
attempt panics the Sun4's with a memory alignment error, and kills the
rpc.mountd process on the Sun4cs. THis is very consistent, and causes
much consternation on the part of our Sun4 file server users. Using 
SMIT (AIX sys-admin util) to hard mount the Sun partions works for the
first partition mounted, but causes panics on subsequent partitions.
There doesn't appear to be a problem with SunOS 4.1.3. Another symptom
is that the sun NFS port recieves an illegal program id - shifted
by 1 bit from a valid rpc program id.
The problem also occurs with amd mounts of the sun server partitions.

Has anyone out there experienced similar problems? Any fixes?
Thanks  - Woody Kellum


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
Subject: reading a VAX data tape
Organization: CIRES, University of Colorado
Date: 13 Oct 92 14:40:58

Hi. I have a tape that was written as unformatted data by a fortran
program on a VAX. I've heard that his will give me problems reading it
into my Sun. Is this true? Is there any easy solution? I'll summarize
if there's interest.
			Thanks
--
Edward Hartnett			ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
From: markus@arp.anu.edu.au (Dr Markus Buchhorn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Replacing NIS with DNS, using bind4.8.3
Date: 9 Oct 1992 02:02:18 GMT
Organization: Centre for Information Science Research, ANU, Canberra, Australia
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.anu.edu.au


I'm trying to recompile our libc.so to include the bind4.8.3 routines
as I want to set up some Suns to run DNS as opposed to NIS. (SunOS 4.1.2
(although some are still 4.1.1) Sun 4/390's, 4/330's, S1&2's)

I've been following the (excellently detailed!) readme (snaffled from
someone on the sun-managers mailing list). Unfortunately it is weak on one
point. I have all the res_* routines it asked for except for res_data.c
The readme indicates (nay, hints!) that we need to provide one, but doesn't 
say what it is actually wants - it also mentions modifications to res_query
and res_init 'to work with Sun shared libraries', but no clear idea what...

I'm no guru on networks/NIS/DNS, but I am  confused :-) !! Any help greatly
appreciated !! (Please keep it simple :-))

Thanks

Markus
From: pla_jfi@pkinbg.UUCP (Karl-Jose Filler,LD,)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100%
Date: 8 Oct 92 07:04:47 GMT

>>
>>|> Any ideas?  (Please let it not be the 'ol "backup and restore"!)
>>
>>It's normal.  You don't have to do anything.  If you do want to put more
>>stuff in /usr then root can create stuff up to 110%, otherwise you will have
>>to repartition the disk.
> 
> Or you can newfs the partition with -m 0 which will get rid of the 10 %
> loss. But net.wisdom has it the disk performance will be abyssimal when
> you get to where that space is used, due to fragmentation & thrashing.
> And of course, doing a newfs does entail doing a backup (dump) first
> and then reading it back with restore after the newfs. }:->
> 
Another possibility is to use tunefs -m <percent value>

Afterwards umount/mount the partition.
This gives you the remaining space without a dump / newfs / restore

Another method to gain diskspace is to reduce the number of inodes
normally is one inode / 2048 Byte diskspace. On our servers this leads 
to an inode usage of 5% to 10 %.
We are doing now the newfs with -i 8192, wich gains about 3 % of the
net disk capacity against the sun standard value ( this is 30 MBtes on 
an 1GB Drive )
			Karl-Jose Filler
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hugh@slee06.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader)
Subject: 4.1.3 lock manager incompatibility?
Reply-To: hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com
Organization: Ford Motor Company Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 15:26:36 GMT

I just installed a new IPX with Sun OS 4.1.3 on our network. Up to now
all we had were 4.1.1 and 4.1.2. We run the Wingz spreadsheet from an
NFS mount from a MP630 running 4.1.2.

When Wingz is invoked from the 4.1.3 machine, we get a message from
Wingz saying all licenses are in use. And we get a console message:

    lock-manager: RPC error: (9) RPC: Program/version mismatch

Apparently Wingz uses some sort of file locking mechanism in its
screwey network licensing scheme.

I guess there is some incompatibilty between the lock managers. However
if I do:

slee06% rpcinfo -p slee12   	# the 4.1.3 machine
   program vers proto   port
    100021    1   tcp    866  nlockmgr
    100021    1   udp   1066  nlockmgr
    100021    3   tcp    870  nlockmgr
    100021    3   udp   1067  nlockmgr
    100020    1   udp   1068  llockmgr
    100020    1   tcp    875  llockmgr
    100021    2   tcp    878  nlockmgr
    100021    2   udp   1069  nlockmgr
slee06% rpcinfo -p slee01 | grep lock 	# the 4.1.2 server
    100021    1   tcp    737  nlockmgr
    100021    1   udp   1035  nlockmgr
    100021    3   tcp    741  nlockmgr
    100021    3   udp   1036  nlockmgr
    100020    1   udp   1037  llockmgr
    100020    1   tcp    746  llockmgr
    100021    2   tcp    749  nlockmgr
    100021    2   udp   1038  nlockmgr

The version numbers are the same. What gives? Anybody know?
Am I interpreting the rpcinfo output correctly?

Thanks in advance.


--
Hugh Fader
hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com
From: nkhawand@unlinfo.unl.edu (<- nancy khawand ->)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: INSTALLING AN HP LASER JET 3D PRINTER (???)
Keywords: HP Laser Jet Postscript Printer
Date: 12 Oct 92 16:05:05 GMT
Organization: University of Nebraska - Lincoln


I was wondering if anyone has a printcap file for a HP Laser Jet III
printer with a HP Postscript Cartridge 33439Q? 

Thanks. 

--
   Nancy Khawand                      Internet:  nkhawand@unl.edu
   University of Nebraska - Lincoln   Phone   :  (402) 472-5663
   Computing Resource Center          FAX     :  (402) 472-5640
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pbray@firebird.newcastle.edu.au (Peter Bray)
Subject: Re: 4.1.3 lock manager incompatibility?
Organization: Application Specific Computer Design, The University of Newcastle
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 03:38:15 GMT

hugh@slee06.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader) writes:

>I just installed a new IPX with Sun OS 4.1.3 on our network.
>When Wingz is invoked from the 4.1.3 machine, we get a message from
>Wingz saying all licenses are in use. And we get a console message:
>    lock-manager: RPC error: (9) RPC: Program/version mismatch

To add more light to the problem, once again NFS file locking..

SetUp:	SUN SLC & IPX running 4.1.2 with 100075-08 rpc.lockd jumbo patch
	The IPX is the NFS file server for all applications / user files.

Normally I run AT&T C++ on the server, but on the one occassion I happened
on to run it on my SLC an identical error was generated on the console.

CC  +w +p -pta -ptv -g MyFile.C
CC  +g +w +p MyFile.C:
CC[ptcomp]: waiting to lock repository ./ptrepository, sleeping ...
CC[ptcomp]: waiting to lock repository ./ptrepository, sleeping ...

for each C++ error line the lock-manager error was repeated on the console.

Again: Both Machines are running 4.1.2 with the above mentioned patch installed
( if fact it was, deinstalled and reinstalled )

Once again, any insights would be helpful. ( I hate having system errors ;-) )

Peter

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: olsenc@carson.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Subject: PC NFS bulletproofing info
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 19:32:56 GMT


Hello:

I was wondering if anyone had an idea on how to make PC-
NFS be a little more stern on login.

We have a PC network that will be bound to our YP server
for verification.  We need to keep people off these machines
that do not have accounts on our YP server (i.e. non-departmental
students and the like).  The problem is that even if the login
fails, PC-NFS still sets up the printers and allows them access
to the machine anyway!

Aside from writing our own assembly, how can we make login
failures such that they cannot get on the machine?

Thanks in advance.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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olsenc@u.washington.edu
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From: jre@liv.ac.uk (John Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Automounter: what's it good for?
Date: 15 Oct 92 11:13:21 GMT
Organization: Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Univ. Liverpool, UK

Dear all,

I have a query about using an automounter. Basically, what are the
advantages as opposed to keeping directories permanently mounted?

This system I have in mind is this:

~10 suns (sparc2's, sunos4.1.2) with X terminals hanging off them. The users
generally access the sun that has the disk their files are on, so most
file access is local. However, they will occasionally need to access
file on the other disks on remote machines, so those disks must be
accesible via nfs.

Currently the system is smaller than this and all drives are
permanently cross-mounted from all other machines with disks. This
seems to work OK. When the system grows to the above, would I see any
performance improvement by using the automounter? In other words, is
having a mounted but unaccessed remote disk causing any load that the
automounter could remove?

Also, would using the automounter make things easier to administer for me
even if it doesn't help the users?

Finally, if an automounter is a good idea, is the amd one better than
sun's for this scale of things?

I'm really just looking to benefit from other peoples experience
before I go off and change things to no good effect.

Thanks for your attention,

John Ellis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lou@yfn.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz)
Subject: Re: System panic "swtch"
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 01:10:57 GMT

guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
: >What does the panic message "swtch" mean?
: 
: The simple answer is "it means you should call up Sun and complain".
: 
: The complicated answer is "it means that the process-switching code
: found that the process that it decided to run, from looking at the queues
: of runnable processes, wasn't *really* runnable".
: 
: There may be a patch for this, or there may not.
Just a little additional information may be in order.  This happened
at the same moment OARNet (our statewide network in Ohio) burped.
I still have no idea what they did, but it had a major effect on
this one machine.  I suspect that this one got hit since it had somewhere
between 10-15 internet telnet's into it when the network disappeared
for a few minutes.  Nonetheless, a quick call to Sun for a report
is probably appropriate :-)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: chuck@corp.telecom.nz (Chuck Zheng)
Subject: Re: PC-NFS : yp_match failed
Reply-To: chuck@corp.telecom.co.nz
Organization: Technology Strategy, Telecom Corporation of New Zealand.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 23:21:04 GMT


In article <BvxBAx.G2G@pgroup.com>, lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows) writes:
|> In article <1992Oct9.211343.804@evb.com> mahesh@evb.com writes:
|> >I have installed PC-NFS 4.0 on our 486. On our sun I see
|> >the following message very often,
|> >
|> >Oct  9 16:32:44 gadget pcnfsd[134]: rpc.pcnfsd: yp_match failed
|> >
|> >What could cause such an error to occur?

Given pcnfsd source code, I inserted "printf" statements into the program
at place where it reports yp_match error.  It turned out that pcnfsd trys
to match user name against map auto.home, which is used by automounter.  
Therefore, you either do not use automounter, or do not have auto.home
in the format:

chuck	server:/home/chuck

Recall from some Sun white papers I read before, they do suggest people
use automounter this way.  But I don't, hence, I saw the same error message
as you saw.  

I do not think the automounter problem stops pcnfs from working properly.

Cheers,
	Chuck
-- 
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Telecom Corperate Office
Wellington, New Zealand
chuck@bdev.corp.telecom.co.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jgraham@cs.uah.edu (Jay Graham)
Subject: ** HELP ** Tape Drive Problem
Organization: Computer Science Dept., Univ. of Alabama-Huntsville
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 18:55:05 GMT

I've got a problem with my tape drive and I hoping
someone in net-land can help me out.


Configuration:
  Sun 4/110 (8 Meg RAM)
  327 Meg Hard-drive
  60 Meg 1/4" tape drive
  SunOS 4.1.3

Problem:
  When I connect the SCSI cable and power to my
  tape drive controller card, I get the following error 
  message when I boot my system:

  "invalid status msg = FFFFFFFF"

Is my tape controller card fried or what?

Thanks, Jay (jgraham@cs.uah.edu)
From: simon@lia.di.epfl.ch (Simon Leinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100% full?
Date: 14 Oct 92 10:57:25 GMT
	<14956@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
Organization: DI-LIA -- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
In-reply-to: guy@Auspex.COM's message of 12 Oct 92 23:41:57 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: e41b6cec42f6f3a6daea2fb558e02365

In article <14956@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:

   >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.

Right, but GNU df *really* prints negative avail numbers for BSD file
systems:

liasun5[/etc]# df -t 4.2
Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a               7508    7078     -320    105%   /
/dev/sd0g              56431   47409     3379     93%   /usr
/dev/sd3g             613252  483838    68089     88%   /export/picard
liasun5[/etc]# type -all df
df is /usr/local/bin/gnu/df
df is /usr/bin/df
df is /bin/df
liasun5[/etc]# /bin/df -t 4.2
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a               7508    7078       0   105%    /
/dev/sd0g              56431   47409    3379    93%    /usr
/dev/sd3g             613252  483838   68089    88%    /export/picard
-- 
Simon.
From: gec@panix.com (George Cabanas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SUN IPX and Novell
Summary: SUN IPX connect to TCP/IP and Novell
Keywords: IPX tcp/ip novell
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:27:27 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC

I'm about to purchase a SUN IPX.  I need to connect it to a Novell
Network ( currently 2.12, but by year's end will be 3.1X ).  This
network is over ARCNET cards.  There are several applications that I
must be able to run from the server on the SUN.  The server does have
access to a Wellfleet router.

The reason I'm getting the SUN is to access resources on a TCP/IP
network.

Eventually, I will have an application that runs on the SUN that I
would like the PCs on the Novell network to access and run.

Questions:
1. Do I need DOS emulation on the SUN to run Novell DOS programs?

2. Can I plug an ARCNET card into the SUN and run Novell IPX
   ( bypassing the router )?  The ethernet card will be
   connected to the TCP/IP network.

3. Am I dreaming?

I would greatly appreciate any and all suggestions.

Thank you.
George
gec@panix.com
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jimu@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au (James Uther)
Subject: HELP! Shared Libraries stuffing around!
Reply-To: jimu@orthanc.cs.su.oz.au (James Uther)
Organization: sydney university
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 03:11:05 GMT

Getting to the point, when I try to start twm or tvtwm (but not olwm), i get

ld.so: Undefined symbol: __XtInherit

and get logged out.
This is a recent problem. I have spent a little time recently trying to install
X11R5 and XView3, and have probably changed something I shouldn't have.
Could some net.guru explain to me the main causes for the above message, and
I'll try to take it from there? 
	Thanks everyone
	paghty
	james
	jimu@cs.su.oz.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: paul@gta.com (Paul Emerson)
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100% full?
Organization: Global Technology Associates, Inc.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 92 01:23:43 GMT

From article <14922@auspex-gw.auspex.com>, by guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris):
>>This behaviour has been the same since at least SunOS 3.5.
> 
> Since at least 4.1cBSD (did 4.1b have the old V7-derived file system or
> the new file system?).
> 
> However, that doesn't explain the rest of the stuff he mentioned:
> If he truly means that "df" printed a negative number in the "avail"
> column, something bizarre is going on - "df" doesn't normally print
> negative numbers there, it prints 0 if you're over the "maximum space

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

Filesystem         1024-blocks  used available capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a              16287    8338     6321     57%   /
/dev/sd0d             412767  352881    18610     95%   /usr
/dev/sd1d             306391  235086    40666     85%   /usr2
/dev/sd1e             306388  241254    34496     87%   /usr3
/dev/sd0e              26415    9169    14605     39%   /var/spool
/dev/sr0              298014  298015       -1    100%   /cdrom

While the Sun version prints 0.

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a              16287    8339    6320    57%    /
/dev/sd0d             412767  352881   18610    95%    /usr
/dev/sd1d             306391  235086   40666    85%    /usr2
/dev/sd1e             306388  241254   34496    87%    /usr3
/dev/sd0e              26415    9169   14605    39%    /var/spool
/dev/sr0              596028  596030       0   100%    /cdrom

Paul
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