HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu (Kerien Fitzpatrick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Moving calendar info
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:56:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: cs.Bu0sun.9t3.2
Reply-To: fitz@frc.ri.cmu.edu
Organization: Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon University

In article 2131@informatik.uni-ulm.de, borchert@titania.mathematik.uni-ulm.de (Andreas Borchert) writes:
> In article <1992Sep3.005604.21109@news.ysu.edu>, lou@yfn.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz) writes:
> > I've just moved from one sun workstation to another.  I had my
> > calendar tool nicely set up on the old machine, and wish to move
> > that calendar data to the new Sun.  I had (falsely I guess) 
> > assumed that I could move /usr/spool/calendar/callog.lou to 
> > the new machine, fix up its permissions, do a sed to change
> > machine ID's in the tag, and bring up calendar tool.  Much to
> > my surprise it had no idea that the data was out there. :-)
> > 
> > Is there any way to do this?  
> 
> Probably, you've forgotten to restart rpc.cmsd after your changes
> to your callog file.
> 
> -- 
> _______________________________________________________________________________
> 
> Andreas Borchert, University of Ulm, SAI, D-W-7900 Ulm, Germany
> Internet: borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de


You must first kill the running rpc.cmsd process *before* copying the callog
file.  I believe it is because rpc.cmsd keeps everything in memory and then
writes it out.  If you copy the callog file in the /var/spool/calendar while
rpc.cmsd is running you won't see the changes...and the file will be over-
written.  If you kill the process, copy the file in, and restart the process
everything should work smoothly.

Fitz


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Carnegie Mellon University
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Date: 29 Aug 92 21:43:57 GMT
Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA

In <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:

| In article <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
| >checksum error.  I have seen this problem before.  It has to do with SGI
| >writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.  
| 
|    dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
|          ^^^^^^^^^^
|         your tape name here
| 
| "swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.
| 
| I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
| release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?

What do you mean 'fixed this'.  There isn't anything to fix.  Yes,
we default (sort of silly after all this time, but since we have
been doing it, we have to keep doing it, it is a cycle...) to
making *links* from the byte swapping device to /dev/*tape for
QIC drives.  I have never said that this would change (although I
would *love* to drop it, and I'd be surprised if anybody else at
SGI had ever said it would change).  We don't default to linking
the byte swapping device for anything but QIC.

--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pdp@stat.ufl.edu (Phil Padgett)
Subject: Modem Hangup on Logout
Organization: University of Fl, Department of Statistics
Date: 2 Sep 92 22:22:58

We have a USRobotics Courier 9600 modem on a Sun IPX.  The modem works
fine except it does not hang up on log off.  Consequently if someone
forgets to hang up their modem after logout, the line is tied up.  Is
there a solution for this problem?
Thanks for any advice.
--

Phil Padgett                               Network Manager
pdp@stat.ufl.edu                           Division of Biostatistics
                                           University of Florida
From: george@tusk.med.harvard.edu (George Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Date: 4 Sep 92 16:46:57 GMT
	<1992Aug29.143857.27008@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu>
Organization: Harvard Medical School, Boston MA
In-reply-to: rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu's message of 29 Aug 92 14:38:57 GMT


   In article <1992Aug29.143857.27008@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu> rick@sjsumcs.sjsu.edu (Richard Warner) writes:

   rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
   
   >In article <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
   >>checksum error.  I have seen this problem before.  It has to do with SGI
   >>writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.  
   
   >   dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
   >         ^^^^^^^^^^
   >        your tape name here
   
   >"swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.
   
   >I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
   >release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?
   
   They do have the non-swapping device driver /dev/tapens, but /dev/tape is
   the default and does the swapping. 
   
   >Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
   >Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu

Here's what I use to read sun tapes via an sgi tape drive:

# to get sun cartridge tape tar files from SGI's
alias gettarsgi 'rsh -n \!:1 dd if=/dev/nrtapens bs=20b | tar xvBfb - 20'
--
George Planansky
Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard University Medical School, 240 Longwood Ave., Boston, MA 02115
email: gplanansky@tusk.med.harvard.edu
phone: (617) 432-3919
fax:   (617) 432-4360
From: ajt@swan.doc.ic.ac.uk (Tony Travis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Printing to AppleTalk
Date: 26 Aug 92 18:26:47 GMT
Reply-To: ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk
Organization: Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
NNTP-Posting-Host: swan.doc.ic.ac.uk
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Janet Jackson (janet@cs.uwa.oz.au) wrote:
: In <1992Aug24.195547.22917@linus.mitre.org> can@mitre.org (Christopher A. Nissen) writes:
: 
: >What is the easiest, cheapest way to print to a laserwriter that is hooked
: >up to AppleTalk from my Sun?
: 
: We use CAP (Columbia Appletalk Protocol) to do this.  It also lets you 
: make Unix filesystems appear as AppleShare servers.  It's supposed to let
: Mac users print to printers on the Suns, too, but we've never been able
: to get that to work.

I use netatalk and that *does* let Mac's print on the Sun printers ...

	Tony.
--
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Rowett Research Institute,            |  JANET: <ajt@uk.ac.sari.rri>
Greenburn Road, Bucksburn,            |  other: <ajt@rri.sari.ac.uk>
Aberdeen, AB2 9SB. UK.                |  phone: 0224-712751
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams)
Subject: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 21:30:40 GMT

Educational sites:

Before you even open that nice new SunExpress catalog you might just
want to throw it out now.  Why you ask?  No more educational discount.
No you did not read that wrong.  You understood.  If you order through
SunExpress you do not get the educational discount!  You can still order
from your sales man and get the discount but it can take forever to get
something that way.  It was just getting easy to order stuff.  A disk
here a tape drive there.  So easy.  BUT NO MORE.  Don't they want us to
order stuff?  It sure does not seem like they do!

Chad Adams
-- 
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Systems Programmer     /  ) /         /  University Park, IL  USA
1-708-534-0200        /    /_  __, __/   ECN, networking in IL since 1975
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From: drears@pica.army.mil (Dennis G Rears <drears>)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Splitting an NIS domain across a router.
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:50:44 GMT
Organization: U.S. Army  Armament Research Development & Engineering Center, Dover NJ

In article <1992Aug31.145450.24666@uunet.uu.net!mercomp> blu@uunet.uu.net!mercomp (Brian Utterback) writes:
>We are in the process of splitting our current network into two, a
>production network and a test network.  I don't know much about the
>workinfs of NIS, so bear with me if this is a stupid question, but
>how do I set up NIS under such a configuration?  Would it be best
>to have two masters or what?  If I had two masters, how should I keep
>them in sync?  Any one have a similar setup?

   I have one NIS domain across 12 subnets with no problem.  You only
only want 1 master server.  You will want at least 2 slave servers on
each subnet.  The only problem you will have is creating the the first
slave server on the subnet without the master server to do this do the
following:

	o Boot the slaver-server-to-be in single user mode.
	o mv /etc/ypbind /etc/ypbind.dis
        o go to multi user mode
	o cd /usr/etc/yp
	o execute ypbind -ypset
	o ./ypset IP_address_of master_server
	o ypinit -s IP_address_of master_server

   Works for me all the time.

Dennis
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jbotz@mtholyoke.edu (Jurgen Botz)
Subject: NIS: multiple masters/overlapping domains
Organization: Mount Holyoke College
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:12:57 GMT

I have some hairy NIS questions.  I have the O'Reilley book, but couldn't
find any information regarding this in it.

Basically, here's the setup... I'm responsible for a bunch of Suns that 
belong to the computer science department at a small college.  There is
an IS department which provides general services, and CS wants to use
the same password entries as IS, but have their own NIS maps for various
other things.

Right now I have a set of machines in a single domain with two
masters...  one serves just the password map (the IS machine), the
other serves everything else.  This seems to work ok, although there
is no mention of such a setup anywhere in the Sun docs or the
O'Reilley book. Is this kosher?  Are there any potential pitfalls I'm
not seeing?

Even if it's kosher, the setup is less than ideal, because it doesn't
provide for the possibility that the math department sets up a bunch
of Unix boxes and wants to do the same thing (get the password map
from the IS machine and have their own maps for other stuff).

So what I would like to do is a have a simple two-level hierarchy of
domains, where the IS machine is the master server for the top level
(call it smith.edu), and CS's server becomes the master for a subdomain
(call it csc.smith.edu).  Then I would like to have the server for
csc.smith.edu be a slave for maps in smith.edu and a master for it's
own set of maps.  This seems a much more logical approach to me.  Is
it possible?
--
Jurgen Botz                  |   Internet: JBotz@mtholyoke.edu
Academic Systems Consultant  |     Bitnet: JBotz@mhc.bitnet
Mount Holyoke College        |      Voice: (US) 413-538-2375 (daytime)
South Hadley, MA, USA        | Snail Mail: J. Botz, 01075-0629
From: yvent@ntua.gr (Yiannis Ventikos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Date: 30 Aug 92 06:20:38 GMT
Organization: National Technical University of Athens

rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:

>In article <wycn8yb@lynx.unm.edu> john@aquarius.unm.edu (John Prentice) writes:
>>checksum error.  I have seen this problem before.  It has to do with SGI
>>writing its integers with the byte order different than the Sun.  

>   dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
>         ^^^^^^^^^^
>        your tape name here

>"swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.

>I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
>release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?
>-- 
>Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
>Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu


They did not do what they said they were going to do.


 
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From: ufe@dlva.dl.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help!  Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Date: 28 Aug 92 08:57:38 GMT
Reply-To: ufe@dlva.dl.ac.uk ()
Organization: SERC Daresbury Lab., Warrington, U.K.

On SGI systems, tape drivers are provided which will write swapped
or no-swapped. Names are of the form 
/dev/rmt/tps0d6		- swapped
/dev/rmt/tps0d6ns	- noswapped
Cheers,
	Mark
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From: matthew@sun.com (Matthew Stier - Sun NC Development Center)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Please can someone help
Date: 26 Aug 1992 20:55:27 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: matthew@sun.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: newwave.east.sun.com

In article 92Aug26161931@hydro.mps.ohio-state.edu, neruda@mps.ohio-state.edu (Steven Neruda) writes:
> Sounds like what your looking for is the console-server program written
> by Tom Fine (fine@cis.ohio-state.edu) and located on ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu 
> in /pub/console-server directory for anonymous ftp.
> 
> I haven't actually used it, but I seem to remember it does pretty much
> everything your asking for and you get the source code so you should be
> able to modify it to your liking.
> 

We have it set in out office.  It makes managing more than a dozen servers much
easier.  

We also have a dedicated modem line on the console server.  
No more running into the office on weekends because a server is down.
(Since We run Sparcprinters on SS1(+)'s, I'm trying to get the printer servicers
 added to the console server also.)

---
Matthew Lee Stier                          |
Sun Microsystems ---  RTP, NC  27709-3447  |     "Wisconsin   Escapee"
Email: matthew.stier@East.Sun.COM          |
Phone: (919) 469-8300 fax: (919) 460-8355  | 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: thorsen@stc.nato.int (Einar C. Thorsen)
Subject: Re: Impossible to use CD-ROM with PC filesystem on Sun?
Keywords: CD-ROM,pcfs
Organization: SHAPE Technical Centre, NL
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 06:47:43 GMT

In <1992Aug31.193716.17242@stc.nato.int> thorsen@stc.nato.int (Einar C. Thorsen) writes:

>We are trying to read a CD-ROM that has a PC filesystem on it using
>mount -rt pcfs /dev/sr0 /pcfs
>but it seems like SunOS doesn't like it.

>Has somebody got any suggestions?

I got a few replies suggesting the CD-ROM has a High Sierra file system;
    mount -rt hsfs /dev/sr0 /hsfs
and SunOS (4.1.1) now mounts the CD-ROM happily, BUT...
my directory /hsfs has suddenly become a data file with 202 bytes !!!

Where do I go from here?

Thanks again,

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From: derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek E Terveer)
Subject: Mt. Xinu K-talk/K-spool vs. Sitka Netprint Sun
Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:22:11 GMT

We are currently using version 6.12 of K-talk/K-spool from Mt. Xinu (or
I suppose it is really Xinet) to provide printing services from our 23
Sun workstation network to Apple Laserwriters on an apple talk
network.  Our typical print job (from the Unix(tm) side) is a few pages
of text with occasional graphics.  The Solaris 2.0 versions of K-talk
and K-spool will be available to us (when it becomes available (when is
that?)) for about $300, but we have been looking at the Sitka product
that should provide us with the same functionality for about $500.
Assumedly, because Sitka is a Sun subsidiary, they may have be able to
put a solaris product to market faster than the competition.

Is anybody using the Sitka product now?  What are your impressions of
it and, if possible, how does it compare to the Mt. Xinu product?
Should we bag Mt. Xinu and use the Sitka product and do they have a
working Solaris 2.0 version?  Does the Sitka product offer any
advantages to us over K-talk/K-spool?

Please send replies to derekt@stpaul.gov.

Thanks,

derek
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 they manufacture our consent while we destroy the environment."
From: bradshaw@ccvax.ucd.ie
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Installing Exabyte 8200 on Sun SPARCStation IPC
Date: 3 Sep 92 14:09:58 GMT
Organization: University College Dublin

I am in the process of purchasing an Exabyte 8200 for our Sun 
SPARCStation IPC and hope to chain it via a SCSI connection to
an external SCSI hard disk. I was wondering if anyone reading this
could tell me what is required to install and mount an Exabyte
on the SPARCStation. Do I need a special device driver? Do I
need to reconfigure the kernel? Are there special mount options?
What files need to be modified? Any and all replies appreciated..
Thanks in advance... My E-Mail addresses are below.
                                      Chris Bradshaw

My E-Mail addresses:

      CBRADH89@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
      BRADSHAW@CCVAX.UCD.IE
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe)
Subject: biff not biffing
Organization: GTE/SCSD
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 19:02:29 GMT


I found something a little bizarre today.....I've been logged in and
I've received several mail messages but no notification from biff.

I verified that biff is y and logged in and out, logged in on the
console, logged in as root (with biff y), and it still won't work.  I
can't reboot at the moment, but I suspect that would probably cure
whatever this is.

Has anybody else ever witnessed this behavior?

The system is a Sun-SPARC2 running SunOS 4.1.1.......
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl)
Subject: Re: Format.dat for Fujitsu M2266SA .
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 11:35:53 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.
Keywords: format.dat ; FUJITSU ; M2266SA

In article <1992Aug31.041349.4224@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au>, rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Rodney Campbell) writes:
|> vgovers@escher.earth.ruu.nl (H.M.V.C. Govers) writes:
|> 
|> >Who can help with a format.dat for :
|> 
|> >Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2 GB SCSI disc.
|> 
|> >Thanks in advance.
|> 
|> >H.M.V.C. Govers
|> 
|> Here are two that I know of - The first I got off the net and have been
|> using for about 18 months with no problems. The second is from the
|> format.faq which I have not tried.
|> 
|> disk_type = "Fujitsu 1.2G CRANEL-M2266SA" \
|>         : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 2 \
|>         : cache = 0x11 : trks_zone = 15 : asect = 3 \
|>         : ncyl = 1642 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1644 : nhead = 15 : nsect = 85 \
|>         : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 46635
|> 
|> disk_type = "Fujitsu M2266SA 1.2GB" \
|>         : ctlr = MD21 : fmt_time = 4 \
|>         : trks_zone = 15 : asect = 1 : atrks = 10 \
|>         : ncyl =  1652 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1658 : nhead = 15 : nsect = 85 \
|>         : rpm = 3600 : bpt = 50830
|> 
|> 			     					Rodney...
|> -- 

I tried the FAQ one here, but using the bonnie diskio test the factory
supplied format entry gives the best performance.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: sun2
From: system@kryton.UUCP (Scott Beckstead)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 92 02:35:17 PDT
Organization: Paradox Alley F&SF BBS 805-492-8789

Hi All,
   I have a sun2/120 and I have almost NO docs.  I'm running sunos 3.5 and I was
wondering if there were a place I could get a sysadmin manual from.  I also
want to play around with stand alone programs and I need a hardware reference
for this beast.  (the wanted group isn't carried here so please pardon
the inappropriate group)  Thanks in advance for any help.
Scott


SYSOP: Paradox Alley  F&SF BBS and Usenet News/Mail 
805-492-8789  The Place For Science Fiction and Fantasy
"Spin My Nipple Nuts and Send Me to Alaska!"

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Subject: fcntl locks
Summary: locks keep hanging up
Keywords: fcntl locks lockf
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 10:12:44 GMT

I have a problem with SunOS 4.1 locks.  They get eaten up by something, and
this messes up few programs we use.  This seems that either locks are kept
by a program I don't expect to do it or the locks are not killed when a
program terminates.  The hardware is 3/60.  The problem is not that locks
are reserved, but the table of locks somewhere gets filled up.

- Does sun has a mail address for support?
- Is there a program display all locks.  Knowing which processes have them
would be nice but even the files the locks are for would suffice. 
- Where should I find the lock table in kernel?  Could it be simple to
write a kmem-digger to get them out?

-
Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
hsu@{otax.tky.hut,cs.hut,clinet}.fi +358-0-8031121
/G=Heikki/S=Suonsivu/O=hut/OU=cs/PRMD=Inet/ADMD=Fumail/C=FI,
mcsun!hutcs!hsu, riippu SN, Email preferable.
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From: neruda@mps.ohio-state.edu (Steven Neruda)
Subject: Re: Please can someone help
Organization: The HydroLab, Ohio State Univ. Columbus Ohio
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 21:19:31 GMT

Sounds like what your looking for is the console-server program written
by Tom Fine (fine@cis.ohio-state.edu) and located on ftp.cis.ohio-state.edu 
in /pub/console-server directory for anonymous ftp.

I haven't actually used it, but I seem to remember it does pretty much
everything your asking for and you get the source code so you should be
able to modify it to your liking.

               cheers,

                 Steve

Steve Neruda (neruda@mps.ohio-state.edu)
Sys Admin, The HydroLab (292-6193)
177 Scott Hall,  1090 Carmack Dr.
Columbus, OH 43210
From: kahn@PHYSICS.UNC.EDU (Dan Kahn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: File system locking question
Date: 29 Aug 92 20:06:58 GMT
Organization: Physics Dept. UNC-CH


I had thought that file system locking was available under SunOS 4.1.2,
but now that we've got a machine with 4.1.2 I can't seem to find any
information about it.  I think I'm locking for a command or system call
called lockfs, but man can't find anything.

I'd like to be able to lock our file systems while I do level 0 backups.
 I know some backup software can now do this, but until I can convince
my employer to puchase a backup package I'm stuck with dump scripts.

Where can I learn about locking our file systems, and what commands or
system calls do I use?

Thanks,
--dan