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From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Subject: slow remote printing
Reply-To: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU
Organization: Stanford University, California, USA
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 21:27:59 GMT

My workstation is very slow at transferring a print file to its
remote print server.  When lpr is invoked on the command line or
by mailtool or another program, it hangs for a minute, or maybe 2
or 3, before returning.  During this time, lpq reports "no entries"
in the remote print queue and "Warning: no daemon present" in the
local queue.  However, there are two copies of lpd running (parent
and child).  Messing around with various commands in lpc doesn't
help.  Killing and restarting lpd (as in /etc/rc) doesn't help.

This situation started a few days ago when we were having various
problem with networking, hardware, etc.  That stuff is mostly
cleared up, but this lpd problem remains.  It's happened before,
and I think rebooting everything would usually clear it up.
I didn't want to do that because I thought there might be some
way to figure out the cause of the problem.  I'm not sure where
to look, though.

The setup: both machines are Sparcs running SunOS 4.1.1.
Patch 100305-07 applied for lpc and lpd.  Patch 100305-06
for lpr.  (The 100305-07 version of lpr seems to be incompatible
with 4.1.1.)
--
*   Patrick L. Nolan            (415)723-0133                 *
*   W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)       * 
*   Stanford University                                       *
*   Bitnet: PLN@SLACVM    Internet: pln@egret0.stanford.edu   *
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: tony@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Tony Lock)
Subject: Account Resource Manager (ARM), help!
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:53:09 GMT

Hi, I am trying to install Sun's Account Resource Manager (ARM) product
on a range of Sparc machines. The product installs (eventually, stupid
4.1.1 revision error in the installation script prevents installation
on 4.1.2 without first copying the entire CDROM distribution to disk and
editing the script) and the daemons fire up just fine. Even armtool seems
to work (after a fashion). Its just that it doesn't seem to *DO* anything.

I have created an account record for root at this stage, and wish to get
the autolockscreen function working. Absolutuely no effect, and yes I am
in OpenWindows. Also tried to get the maximum logins and maximum bad logins
working, but no go there either.

Is the problem that I am using root, which bypasses all these things, or
that I have forgotten to do something (I have established the /etc/rpc
entries, and I am not using secure rpc), is it the phases of the moon, or
maybe I am just basically stupid, what is the meaning of life???? :)

Does anyone out there have any experience with this package?

Tony Lock,
Curtin University
Western Australia
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6041 comp.sys.sun.misc:4035
From: whitney@cayman.COM (Nancy Whitney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Info on system maintenance vendors needed
Keywords: info, system, maintenance, vendors, needed
Date: 31 Aug 92 16:39:09 GMT
Followup-To: whitney@cayman.com
Distribution: bos
Organization: Cayman Systems Inc., Cambridge Ma


I am in the process of trying to select a maintenance vendor for the Unix
workstations and peripherals at my site.  This is mostly a Sun shop, but we
also have a few NeXT systems.  We also have a lot of Macs.  I am mainly trying
to find a vendor for the Unix systems but someone who did Sun, NeXT and Macs
would be perfect.

So far I have spoken to several vendors who specialize in service as well as
some VARs who also do service.  They all sound about the same, their quotes
all tend to be in the same ball park, references always sound good.  So - how
to decide??

Some of the companies who I have spoken to are Honeywell, APC and AMC.  We have
dealt with Baystate in the past but were unimpressed.  Sun is too expensive.
Does anyone have any experience with any of vendors I mentioned?  How about
vendors I did not mention?

Any input would be greatly appreciate.  Please e-mail me directly if you have
any horror stories, etc or if you have a really good vendor that I could
consider.


Cheers!

Nancy Whitney



...........................................................................

Nancy Whitney        :Cayman Systems Inc, 26 Landsdowne St, Cambridge, MA 02139
whitney@cayman.com   :Phone 617-494-1999  AppleLink CAYMAN.TECH



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: gilbert@esd.dl.nec.com (Russell Gilbert)
Subject: Re: printcap to send to a process instead of a printer - needed.
Organization: NEC America, Engineering & Support
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:53:42 GMT

From article <1992Aug24.210331.26056@esd.dl.nec.com>, by gilbert@esd.dl.nec.com (Russell Gilbert):
> I'm trying to make an entry in /etc/printcap so that lpr will send the
> file to a process.
> 
> I want the file to be mailed to me instead of actually being printed.
> Something like...   lpr -Ptest file     would mail the file to me.

Thanks to all who mailed me the solution:


test:
	:lp=/dev/null:if=/usr/lib/test_filter:rp=test:


And test_filter contains:

cat - | mail gilbert


Thanks again,

Russell    (gilbert@esd.dl.nec.com)
From: ware@cs.widener.edu (Mark Ware)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: I hate my /etc/printcap.
Date: 3 Sep 1992 15:15:44 -0400
Organization: Widener University CS Department, Chester PA
NNTP-Posting-Host: shirley.cs.widener.edu

Ive tried and tried to get my HPLJ3 to print a binary but alas, my printcap
entry is bogus.

Ok, here's the problem.  I have a binary file, (created by corel draw and
FTPed it to our sun4) and I would like to print it on our HPLJ3 which is 
attached to the sun4 serially(sp?))  Does anyone know what the proper 
printcap entry would look like.  Ive read the man pages and the admin
manual but I still havent had any luck.  Mabey with a working example I
could create the proper entry.  Thanx in advance.  Mail them printcaps to:

-- 
Mark Ware                    .signatures were not meant for self expression.
ware@cs.widener.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: optkap@hp4at.eunet.co.at (Hochleitner)
Subject: setting up slip between Sun and PC
Organization: EUnet EDV-Dienstleistungsgesellschaft m.b.H
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 04:32:49 GMT

 want to set up a slip link over modem between a Sun Sparc 2 and a Pc
running the ka9q package. But I have some troubles over the modem.
I also want to create a pure slip account, where I have to set up the
sliplogin process, but then the login shell process is disturbing me.
I am using the sliplogin version from Zachariassen.

Can somebody give me some hints?
Has someone setup such a configuration?


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From: galpmn01@ngals011.gal.nt.com (peter mcnally,3585)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Splitting an NIS domain across a router.
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:13:06 GMT
Reply-To: galpmn01@ntg.ie
Organization: Northern Telecom, GALWAY, Ireland

In article 2129@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au, rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Rodney Campbell) writes:
>
>Now do the tricky stuff:
>
># /usr/etc/ypbind -ypsetme
># /usr/etc/ypset <Master NIS Host IP Address>
># /usr/etc/yp/ypinit -s <Master NIS Hostname>
>
>Answer questions as per usual.

Although this is the way the manual says to do it, I found , using a cisco 
as a router, that the would-be slave just would not bind across the subnets,
even after issuing a ypbind -ypsetme.

The solution for me, was simply to copy the maps ( /etc/yp/domainname)
over to the new machine, and start ypserv, then reboot....then issue a ypinit -m
on the master, to include the new slave.

Peter McNally		
Northern Telecom, Galway, Ireland   E-mail  galpmn01@ntg.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: don@doug.med.utah.edu (Don Baune 581-6088 MIRL)
Subject: MDT error converting to Zulu
Originator: don@doug
Organization: University of Utah, Dept. of Radiology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 16:16:23 GMT

 To identify the current file, I use the "date -u" command to provide 
date and time in Greenwitch mean time (Zulu). However, all of our systems 
are set to Mountain Daylight Time (MDT) which estimates Zulu time one-
hour ahead.  Therefore, the script file attempts to download a file that 
will exist during the next hour (but of course does not exist now).

Is there a way to calculate the preceding hour without changing all
my systems to MST.  The field that I am having trouble with is the 
%H. In the example below, I am looking for the file "CI%m%d%H.GIF where 
%m is the current month (08), %d is the current day (28), and %H is the 
current time in Zulu (18).  I need to reduce 18 to 17.  Any Ideas would 
be helpful.

don
don@doug.med.utah.edu
From: wmorse@mathcs.emory.edu (William Morse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Simple (hopefully) Sun 3/60 - Sun 4.1 OS question.
Keywords: Sun, 3/60/, SunOS
Date: 27 Aug 92 16:20:33 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS

Hi.... Guess what... I got troubles again... and  I hope you all can help me
(yet again).

I have a Sun 3/60 with a 150 meg SCSI drive with SunOS 4.1 installed and
I did a bad thing.  While I was "learning," I accidently activated
the NIS functions... Now, when my standalone boots, it forever asks
where server noname is... "NIS: server "noname" is not responding;
still trying."  It starts this well before I get a login prompt...
Is there anyway I can make it "stop trying..?"  I know what to
do to fix this once I get logged on, but I can't break out of that
loop to get on...  Please... there must be SOME way to fix this
without a reinstall...

Hopefully, you all know what it is!

---> Thanks!

William Morse  (asking meekly)
Software Consult. 
-- 
William Morse
Emory University, Atlanta, GA 
Internet:  wmorse@mathcs.emory.edu		BITNET: wmorse@emory.bitnet
UUCP: {rutgers,gatech}!emory!wmorse	
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: zamr11@lon.amoco.com (Sandy Rattray)
Subject: Seagate ST83050K IPI Disk 
Reply-To: zamr11@lon.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 18:24:00 GMT

I'd be most grateful if anyone could supply me with the format.dat info
for a Seagate ST83050K disk ; I've checked the format.faq it doesn't
appear there but the entries for the other ISP-80 controllers are commented
out - ?

Anyone help ?

Thanks Sandy
________________________________________________________________________
 
   Sandy Rattray ( Programmer/Analyst ) email   amrattray@lon.amoco.com
   Amoco Services Inc.                  phone   081 849 7554
   Amoco House                          fax     081 849 7329
   London W5 1XL.       
 ________________________________________________________________________


Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6050 alt.sys.sun:3081
From: uniel@uts.uni-c.dk (Erik Lawaetz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,alt.sys.sun
Subject: WANTED: Tool to sensibly convert AUDIT files
Keywords: audit
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:49:51 GMT
Organization: UNI-C, Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education


I have been looking at SUN's audit systen lately, and now I want to
extract the data created into something useful.

I have compared the output SUN produces to that of Ultrix, and to my
dismay the SUN people have done very little to convert it into human
readable form, in comparison to Ultrix.

I am aware of the praudit tool, but that doesn't do much good.

Has anyone written a tool for serious processing of the output from
e.g. praudit?


--Erik
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: czei@musclefish.com (Michael Czeiszperger)
Subject: Re: Running out of processes
Organization: Muscle Fish Multimedia Engineering
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.unix.admin
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:06:45 GMT


The easiest method to get rid of the "running out of processes" errors
is to just set the MAXUSERS value to be high, say 16 or 24.  
Alternatively, you could check the include files that use MAXUSERS
to set the size of internal variables and hack those yourself.  I've
done both, and never noticed a difference really.


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: joey@tessi.com (Joey Pruett)
Subject: Re: Console server (was: Re: Please can someone help)
Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 01:21:36 GMT

barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>I suppose it could be kludged by using ptys.  The master side of each pty
>would be a daemon that connects to the Xyplex, and the slave side would be
>listed in /etc/constab.

i have written such a program (called gate) that allows any tcp
port to be accessed via a pty.  it was created to allow a netblazer
to be used as a modem and printer server.  if there is enough
interest, i can post it (it needs to interface to syslog or at least
have better diagnostics).
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6100 comp.sys.sun.hardware:4219 comp.sys.sun.wanted:1397
From: dclunie@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.wanted
Subject: CDROM Multichanger for Sparc
Date: 3 Sep 92 08:27:26 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Her Master's Voice


I am in need of a CDROM multichanger for use in a public access
unix system to allow users to mount different CDROM's of public
domain software ... I have used these before on PC's with a Pioneer
multichanger to access MedLine CDROM's, and the hardware itself is
pretty cheap, but what about the software for a Sun ... anyone
have any recommendations or experience ?

-- 
David Clunie (dclunie@itd.adelaide.edu.au)
From: yau@cs.utexas.edu (King-Yeung Yau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sparc Architecture Manual
Date: 2 Sep 1992 13:52:53 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
Distribution: austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: levelland.cs.utexas.edu

Hi,

I've been looking for a reference for Sparc assembly language.
Someone pointed me to the Sparc Architecture Manual , version 8.
I've tried a few local bookstores without luck, and the local 
Sun salesoffice people don't seem to know about the publication
(repeatedly, they told me that someone who did know about it
would call me back). I'd thus appreciate it if someone who knows
where the manual is available in Austin would reply by email
to yau@cs.utexas.edu.

Thanks, 
David
From: feldman@comet.Tymnet.COM (Steve Feldman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun 690MP performance problems
Date: 2 Sep 92 00:40:49 GMT
Organization: BT North America (Tymnet)

In article <2A9FA7FE.2305@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>Since we cut over to the 690MP, we have had unsatisfactory performance on
>the 690MP, both for the timesharing users and the people reading news via
>nntp.  We have installed the MP performance patches from Sun and they have
>helped, but the performance is still not as good as the Sequent was with
>the same load.  We see a lot of processes (mostly the nntpd daemons)
>in "D" state when the system performance gets bad.  Response time for
>online users gets slow - people using the Gnu Emacs mhe mail package
>wait a long time (minutes in some cases) for response to commands, "df"
>takes up to a minute to complete, etc.

I have seen problems similar to this on a Sparcstation 1+ which is our
campus mail gateway and news server.  This machine gets very little
interactive use, and the mail load is fairly light, so most of what it does
is news processing and nntp.  It has two SCSI disks.  The symptoms sound
remarkably similar to what you've reported, but since our machine isn't
used as a timesharing system I haven't worried about it too much.

It has even happened even when I'm the only user logged in, but only when
nntp is receiving news from our main feed.  I have speculated that it might
be due to contention for the SCSI bus or the one drive which unfortunately
has root, some swap, usr, and /var/spool/news on it.  It also seems to be
connected to file lookups, rather than actual reads/writes.

Perhaps if you found another machine to process news, your interactive
performance would improve.
	Steve Feldman
	BT North America (Tymnet)
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Running out of processes
Date: 28 Aug 1992 17:04:13 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.unix.admin
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <JDELL.92Aug27164104@nefertiti.mit.edu> jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe) writes:
>	I've got a SPARCstation 2, which is running SunOS 4.1.1.  We like to
>use this machine for batch jobs.  But sometimes we get the "No more processes"
>error and I can't even open up a window.  I was wondering where I could 
>configure our system to allow more processes.  I looked in the kernel, but
>there was only something about MAXUSERS, which looked like more of a floating
>limit.  Should I be changing this?

Yes.

I'm not sure what you mean by "a floating limit", but many of the kernel
table sizes are derived from MAXUSERS.  This includes the process table and
the file table.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: hgarcia@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Booting problems.
Date: 27 Aug 92 02:42:05 GMT
Reply-To: hgarcia@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx
Distribution: alt

For some reason a SPARC Station II is not booting from disk. We tried to change the ip address but it seem that we made a mistake and now the machine do not finish the boot it jus hang up!! The last line of the screen is 
Start RPC key server or something like that.

Some people toldme that the only way to recover that is to try to boot from CD or floppy, is this true?? Arent any other way to do this??

Thanks for the help?

Hugo Garcia
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Newly built Sun3 kernel fails completely -- why?
Date: 29 Aug 92 00:51:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: ucsbcsl.5568
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB

I have just successfully installed SunOS 4.1.1 on our Sun 3/160, and went
ahead configuring a custom kernel for it.  I changed the default name from
"GENERIC" to "WATUSI" and made only one other change: I changed the csr of the
third ethernet interface (ie2) to match the address I had set on the card
(this additional card is the reason for the custom kernel).

Because the OS installation option I chose did not install the /usr/kvm/sys/
directories and files, I got the complete tree from another Sun3 and then did
the config and make.  Since the early tests of the new kernel were to be very
temporary, I moved it to /tvmunix (rather than renaming the original) and
tried to boot it.

I got the following:

b /tvmunix -s
scsi: disk busy
Boot: sd(0,0,0)/tvmunix -s
root on sd0a fstype 4.2
Size: 927560+197472+146920 bytes

Exception 2C at 00004014
>

I get the scsi: message even when I boot the regular kernel, so that is a
different issue.

What kinds of things could cause such a failure at such an early point?  I
cannot believe that the tiny changes in the config file could do it -- I mean,
I have built kernels before.  My only vague guess is that some of the .o files
that I got from the other Sun3 may not be compatible, but I assumed that
anything that needed to be rebuilt would be.

How can I trace down the source of this failure?

Thanks very much in advance.


-- 
Douglas Scott                              (805)893-8352
Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: shrchin@csug.cs.reading.ac.uk (Jonathan H. N. Chin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: /home gone. what's with my SCSI tape drive?
Keywords: backups, 150M tapes
Date: 30 Aug 92 16:55:40 GMT
Organization: University of Reading

Okay, it's like this:
Backed up /home.
Backed it up again.
Tested backup integrity by bar -tf'ing.
  Ran format to repartition so as to give space to /export.
  Did newfs, etc.
Attempted to restore /home.
6th 150M tape turned out to be a DC600. Failed 20M in.
(where did it come from?!)
No problem, out come 2nd set of backups.
bar refuses to read tape: "Insert Volume 2"(3/4/5/etc)
Take tapes to another system, attempt to read. Same result.
Attempt to cat tape6, /dev/rst0 into file. Dies 20M in...
attempt to mt -f /dev/rst0 fsf ... No go.

So, what obvious solution am I missing?
How do I force a sun SCSI tape drive to read past the problem section?
Can it be done? If I, say, mount A SCSI tape on a braindead OS'd machine
that ignores(can't handle?) the errors, will I get the files back?
Where do I find this B.D. machine? Why is my hair turning grey?
When was the last time I had any sleep? ... Aaaarghhh...

Any advice/pointers gratefully received,
Jonathan
--
shrchin@susssys1.rdg.ac.uk


-- 
Jonathan H N Chin (9 kyu) \ Dept. of Cybernetics, \ "Respondeo, etsi mutabor"
shrchin@uk.ac.rdg.susssys1 \ University of Reading \
bq305@cleveland.freenet.edu \ Box 225, Whiteknights \ < Rosenstock-Huessy >
jockstrap,mandy@CyberSpaceII \ Reading, RG6 2AY, U K \
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: squevill@yo_dud.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Stephane Quevillon)
Subject: Re: Printing to AppleTalk
Reply-To: squevill@stam.qe.bell.ca
Organization: OD, Bell Canada
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:02:15 GMT

We use CAP 6.0 (patch level 125) and it works.  Our Mac users can print
on our Postscript connected to a Sun.
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