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From: dana@inferno.UUCP (Dana)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Compuserve's Internet Address
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:47:54 GMT
Organization: Periphonics Corporation
NNTP-Posting-Host: dana

You CAN telnet to BIX. I am not sure how.  You cannot do ftp there though; you have a (pseudo-?) terminal
connect just like dialup to tymnet or Sprintnet. 
There is still a network charge for telnet to BIX, but it is about half the price of the tymnet connection.
Hmm.  Those interested should send mail to helper@bix.com (if that bounces, try sysmgr@bix.com).
There's an 800# to call, but I don't remember it anymore.
-- 
Dana Hudes
dana@inferno.UUCP
dhudes@bix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: yooho@ursula.ic.cmc.ca (Yoo Ho Cho)
Subject: Online Disksuite Use
Organization: Canadian Microelectronics Corporation
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 18:33:55 GMT

Hello netters,

I am looking for information on how well the Sun Online Disksuite product
works.

What I want to do is put two 1.3G drives on a Sparc 2 server mounted 
on the same mount point ( i.e. /usr/users ) so that it looks like a
single 2.6G partition. I am also running prestoserve on the machine
and SunOS 4.1.1.

Is it possible with Disksuite, and what else would I get from running 
the software.

Thanks

Yoo Ho Cho
Canadian Microelectronics Corporation

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ccdw@kudu.ru.ac.za (Dave Wilson)
Subject: xdr_bytes error message?
Keywords: xdr_bytes
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 14:43:07 GMT

An ELC system here has started spewing out the following console and
syslog message:

vmunix: xdr_bytes: bad size FAILED

I have rebooted the system, and after a couple of hours the message
reoccurs.

It is running SUNOS 4.1.1, and is being used as an NFS server/client.
(It looks as though xdr_bytes has something to do with RPC, so I'm
assuming it may have something to do with an NFS problem.

Thanks for any help.

--
Dave Wilson                               Computing Centre  
ccdw@kudu.ru.ac.za                        Rhodes University
+27-461-22023                             Grahamstown, South Africa
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jt@deltam (jim wills)
Subject: Re: Exabyte spits out tapes and dies
Reply-To: jt@deltam
Organization: Delta Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:09:07 GMT

In article 6540@attain.icd.teradyne.com, jxh@certes.icd.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein) writes:
I've been using Sony P6-120MP tapes in my Exabyte EXB-8200 for a while with
no real problems.  Then one day I bought some new tapes and discovered that
the drive would eat a fresh one, spit it out, and then accept it thereafter
without complaint.  So far, so good.  Just stand there and watch it when you
feed it a brand-new tape.

BUT!  Recently, it has started failing even on the second attempt, and it
takes a reboot to clear the condition in the drive.  Once it gets stuck,
no tape will make it happy, even one that it has previously written on with
success.

Sorry if this is a re-hash, but I haven't watched this group for a while.
Can someone tell me (a) what's wrong, (b) what ROMs I need to fix it, or
whatever, and (c) what better workaround there is, short of rebooting the
entire machine?  Send me mail and I will summarize to the newsgroup.

Thanks very much.

-- 
"Neither can His Mind be thought to be in Tune whose Words do Jarre;
 Nor His Reason in Frame whose Sentence is Preposterous."
Jim Hickstein, Teradyne Inc., San Jose CA, (408) 434-0822 FAX -0252
jxh@icd.teradyne.com   ...!apple!attain!jxh


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Sony's P6-120 tapes are known to reject the tape the first time out. Reason, Sony rewinds it tape all the way to the leader. The 8200 doesn't like it. You can maunally advance the tape. There is a release mechanism at the back of the cartridge. Using a pencil eraser advance the tape about 5 to 6 turns. This should put the Exabyte in a good mood. I believe Exabyte has fixed the bug with new firmware but don't quote me. Talk to you vendor to see if they can perform a firmware upgrade. In regards of the Exaby

te rejecting the tape everytime, you may want to clean the heads with an Exabyte cleaning tape, at least two passes. If that doesn't work, you will want to return it to your vendor.

Good Hunting,


Jim Wills, Network Analyst 
Delta Microsystems, Inc.	Voice (510) 449-6881
111-C Lindbergh Ave. 		Fax (510) 449-6885
Livermore, Ca. 94550		Email jwills@deltam.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: Bringing a Sun to it's knees
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 11:55:32 GMT

ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:

>Here at USC I've routinely hit a 20-process (per user) limit.
>This is on a 670MP server.
>How might it be done?

Two ways:

	editing /usr/kvm/sys/conf.common/param.c

or:

	adb -w -k /vmunix /dev/mem
	# /vmunix, remains after reboot
	maxuprc?W14
	_maxuprc:       0x405           =       0x14
	# change running kernel.
	maxuprc/W14
	_maxuprc:       0x405           =       0x14


Casper
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Setting up a postscript printer....
From: rosi@redgum.ucnv.edu.au (rosi punton)
Date: 28 Jan 1993 02:12:49 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: University College of Northern Victoria (Bendigo)
NNTP-Posting-Host: redgum.ucnv.edu.au

In article <1k4hovINNmhs@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>
>Hhmm.... I've gotten replies telling me to use Newsprint, and replies
>for ascii to ps converters, but how does one set things up so that lpr
>can print on the postscript printer at all. Right now, I have to do a
>lpr -h to suppress the burst page or the pr

There is a program called lprps on the net (I forget where) which 

works for a postcript printer connected to a bi-directional serial channel
and deals with banners and filters for text or postcript files, plus
postcript page reversal...
(?)

rosi punton
sys prog
ucnv, bendigo
vic, australia
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Questions/comments about csh
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:03:32 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>csh on the Sun doesn't have a centralized csh.login file
>that is run in addition to ~/.login and ~/.cshrc.

Well, it doesn't under SunOS releases prior to 5.x; it does have one in
5.x, though - "/etc/.login"; I think this may actually be a generic SVR4
feature, not something Sun added.

The man page says it's executed only if you *don't* have a ".login" in
your directory, presumably on the theory that you could source it from
your ".login"; it says so in the BUGS section, for reasons unknown to me
(is the bug that it *has* such a file, or that it only sources it if you
don't have a ".login" of your own?).

>One thing I noticed is that the PATH is set to /usr/ucb,
>/usr/bin and /bin before running my configuration files.  Is
>this hardcoded in the csh source on the Sun?

Yes.
From: vision@nic.cerf.net (Charles Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SCSI timeout--extending the time
Date: 28 Jan 1993 21:06:16 GMT
Organization: CERFnet Dial n' CERF Customer Group
NNTP-Posting-Host: nic.cerf.net


Does anyone know how to (or if it is possible to) alter
the amount of time before a scsi timeout on a SPARCstation E
running 4.1.2 and using the rstx drivers?

It appears that a scsi write command will timeout in about 120
seconds if the initiator does not receive a command complete
from the target.  I need to extend the time to a few minutes.

Please send replies to:  vision@cerf.net

Thanks,

Charlie Chen
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: alain@linguist.jussieu.fr (Alain de Cheveigne')
Subject: pwdauth(): "hostname is bad for this system"
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Universite Paris VI/Paris VII
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:26:01 GMT

I'm trying to install popper and I've run into a strange problem:
Password authentification fails, even when passwords are correct.

It seems that calls to pwdauth() made from popper fail with code
-1 (PWA_INVALID), even with a valid user/password pair.  Similar
calls made from a simple program called by the shell succeed, and
users have no problem at login.

In addition, when I run popper by telnet to port 110, each call to
pwdauth() produces the message: "hostname is bad for this system."
That message doesn't come from popper, but from pwdauth() itself.

The machine is a SUN 3 running sunos4.1.1, without NIS, running DNS,
and set up for C2 security.  Everything else seems fine.

Any ideas anyone?  

Thanks in advance,

Alain de Cheveigne.
From: dminer@East.Sun.COM (Dave Miner - ...sometimes you're the bug)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: user account without a password, HOW?
Date: 27 Jan 1993 18:10:15 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: dminer@East.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: badboy.east.sun.com

In article 10183@iscsvax.uni.edu, venenga@iscsvax.uni.edu () writes:
>Sun Admins:
>
>    Here's another one I couldn't find in the FAQ.  I'm running Solaris 2.1,
>and I need to have a user with no password, so that when they log on, they
>enter their username, and their shell is run, no password asked for or 
>accepted.  I tried to delete the entry from /etc/shadow, but then when I
>log on as that user, it tells me that I have no password, and to enter one.
>This account is used by hundreds of people, so I can't have that.  If I lock
>the password, it won't let me log in.  How do I get an account set so that
>no password is needed?  Thanks for the help in advance.
>

You've done basically the right thing.  The piece you're missing is that you need to edit /etc/default/login and comment out the line which say PASSREQ=YES.

Dave

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SunSoft, Inc., Administration Application Services  (508) 671-0463
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Subject: Re: Setting up a postscript printer....
Reply-To: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
Organization: Communication Research Centre
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 14:16:00 GMT

from man printcap ...

     sh   bool false              suppress  printing   of   burst
                                  page                     header

so your printcap entry should look something like ...

0|lp|QMS 815 Laser printer in room 6:\
        :br#9600:\
        :if=/usr/local/qms/qms-serial-filter:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:\
        :lp=/dev/ttya:\
        :ms=-parenb,cs8,ixoff,ixon,ixany:\
        :mx#0:\
        :pl#0:\
        :pw#0:\
        :rw:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/0:\
        :sh:


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Communications Research Centre / DRL	office	613-998-2845
3701 Carling Ave.,			lab	613-998-2423
Ottawa, Ontario				fax	613-990-7987
K2H 8S2



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: zclb0i@hou.amoco.com (Connie Baker)
Subject: Num Lock Key in OpenWindows Applications not working
Reply-To: zclb0i@hou.amoco.com
Organization: Amoco
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 17:44:44 GMT

This is probably a commonly asked question, but I looked through my old stuff and couldn't find it.

We have several geophysical openwindows-based applications that do not let you use the numeric keypad to
enter numbers.

The keypad works fine in lots of other applications.  What controls if the numeric keypad is recognized and is
there a way to force it?  It doesn't seem to be related to what model keyboard is used - either the application
allows it or not.

Thanks for any help.

Connie B.



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: beaulieu@bose.com (Larry Beaulieu)
Subject: Re: Contemporary Cybernetics tapedrives
Organization: Bose Corporation
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 23:09:24 GMT


>We have a Contemporary Cybernetics tapedrive and are having a little confusion.
>The thing is a 5GB (Cy-8500) model with the compression option and when first
>powered up with a blank tape, shows ~18GB remaining (normal).  But as soon
>as we write anything to the tape it goes to 8200 mode, showing ~8GB remaining
>and we're running out of backup space *way* to early.
>
>The question:
>	How to get the thing into 8500 mode and make sure it stays that way

>I'm pretty sure your drive IS in 8500 mode. When the tape is loaded,
>the display gives an estimate of how much it thinks it can write.

	It doesn't seem to distinguish between 8200/8500 settings,
	only if compression is on/off (17.9xxMB vs 4.4xxMB available).

>To be sure, dump a small filesystem to the no-rewind tape device (ours
>is /dev/nrst1). When the dump is complete, turn off the compression (the

	OK under 4.1.1.  Under 4.1.2 or 4.1.3 you must use /dev/nrst[8-17]
	to write in 8500 mode or you'll poop out after about 8-9 GB.
	Unfortunately neither of you indicated the version of the OS you
	used.

>The 25Gb (that the Contemporary Cybernetics ads show) is a number I suspect
>you'll see only in best cases. Using dump(8), I back up ~11Gb of data (plus

	True.  My best case was about 15GB of mostly ASCII files.

	You should also fiddle with the unlit push switch on the lower
	right (as seen from the back) next to the lit switch which
	controls the data compression.

	Like Stan, I was satisfied with the product.  I had purchased
	5 of these units and then 2 others in a previous life.

	You can get 500KB/sec throughput on backups on fast systems
	SS2 or 4/470 and faster class machines, even when using rdump.
	Not recommended during the day.  Firing up 2 of them will
	cause the users to scream - I speak from experience :-).
--


























--
Larry Beaulieu			beaulieu@bose.com
Bose Corporation		Phone: 508-879-1916 x6479
Framingham, MA 01701-9168	FAX:   508-820-4865	

		All flames gleefully ignored.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Oklieb@world.std.com (Joshua E Lieberman)
Subject: Restore errors?
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 18:22:07 GMT

In trying to perform an incremental restore, we run into the following
error messages (voluminously):

bad entry: incomplete operations
name: ./data1/ingres/data/default/lattimore/RSTTMP0123597
parent name ./data1/ingres/data/default/lattimore
sibling name: ./data1/ingres/data/default/lattimore/RSTTMP0123535
entry type: LEAF
inode nuber: 123597
flags: TMPNAME
abort? [yn]


and on and on for many files. This does not occur for the level 0
backup, only for the level 1 and level 5 incremental backup tapes.
If we go ahead with the restore, fsck reports lots of reference file
and link count errors. INGRES insists it's a unix problem and not
due to their file-handling.

Any suggestions what's wrong and how to fix it?

Also, the level 1 and 5 tapes' contents can be listed without any 
problems. A possible difficulty is that the INGRES backend is 
running while the dumps are performed, but it's not clear why this
should only affect the incremental backups and not the level 0.

Joshua Lieberman oklieb@world.std.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: steve@thermal4.den.mmc (steve ring)
Subject: Intel faxstation 400e modem
Keywords: fax modem serial port
Organization: mmc
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 18:12:28 GMT

Has anyone installed a high speed Intel faxstation/400E on a sparc?
If so, could you please tell me the modem setting and the gettytab etc.
settings that allow the modem to receive data calls at high speed.

If you have done this for some other Intel external (without a fax) those
settings would be appreciated as well.

Thanks in advance
-- 
Steve Ring
steve@thermal4.den.mmc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jdc@coral.uucp (James D. Corder)
Subject: Re: disk striping under sun OS 4.1.x or Solaris 2.1
Organization: M.I.S. Department of Coral Systems
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 12:03:06 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.120110.5577@alijku05.edvz.uni-linz.ac.at> grabner@gup.uni-linz.ac.at writes:
>is anybody out there who DID stripe a logical volume over more than one disk??
>i intend to do this under solaris 2.1 (if possible). it would also be
>interesting if it is possible under SUN OS 4.1.x. so any hints will be
>appreciated.
>

	I have striped two SUN1.3GB drives under 4.1.2 & 4.1.3.  I have been
told by Sun that "On Line Disk Suite" is not avaiable for Solrais 2.1 yet.
I can not upgrade my 670 or NFS towers yet, without it.

	Some Hints:

	When creating your Meta Databases, have at least three on at least two
different partitions.  Therefore, if you loose a partition, you are not
destroyed.

	WARNING!!!

	If you are going to run Disk Less Stations off of the striped partitions
make sure you read that section of the On Line Disk Suite Manual FIRST!!!

	If you are goint to save some disk space so you can added to your
stripes later, make sure your save a disk partition!!!  This is nothing like
adding PPs in AIX.

	If you are adding new drives I like to label my partitions as follows:
		sd1a & sd2a = md1a
I try to have sd1a and sd2a the same size.  Therefore, months later I will know
which sd partitions is which md partition.

Just my $.02,
James D. Corder
coral!jdc@zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu
From: sdlii@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (s.d.lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Need Network Analysis Tools/Shells/Doc/Books/Etc.
Date: 26 Jan 93 23:19:50 GMT
Organization: AT&T


Good Day To All,

  I am trying to put together a set of tools to analyze network usage.
  This is a Sun network. I want to be able to find problems ahead of time
  or determine problems that need to be corrected. What might I be looking
  for?
   
    Suggestions on Books, Scripts, How to interpert the data. FTP sights
  with scripts, etc..

  Thank You Ahead of time.

  Scott D. Lancaster
  sdlii@ihlpm.att.com  
  att!ihlpm!sdlii
  (708)979-1558
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Setting up a postscript printer....
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:18:09 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca


Hi all. We're wanting to put a postscript printer on our Sun so I was
wondering what filter people use. To be more specific, we have a IBM
4029 which we can print plain text without needing any filter. But now
our IBM also has the postscript option and we'd like to put it in
postscript mode. And of course, if I try 'lpr'ing a postscript file to
the printer right now, the title page for the printout will confuse the
postscript printer hence it won't work. So I'll need a filter of some
sort. It worked fine if I just cat the file and bypass lpr. But of
course we don't want this. :) This was only for testing purposes.

It'd be nice if we can just lpr plain text files or postscript files
and have the filter check the file and do the proper conversion if the 
file is not postscript. But we'd be happy being able to print postscript 
files right now, and limit printing to postscript files only (have the 
user do a text-to-ps conversion manually if they want to print their data 
file, or I can do that in a csh script). I've read the Sun manuals but
they have no info on specific printers (not even for setting up a
generic postscript printer). So any help would be appreciated.
Anyone wanting to share their printcap entry for a postscript printer
would also be appreciated. :) ie. if there is anything special I should
put in there.

Thomas.

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Tape Drive Lock-Up
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:23:00 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I believe that there is abug in the SCSI drivers for 4.x.

There may well be one, but, while it might explain the problem he has
with the 8mm drive on his 4/670, it sure won't explain the problem he's
having with the 9-track drive on his 3/280, given that the latter drive
is attached to a Xylogics tape controller, not a SCSI controller (as
indicated by the errors saying things such as "xt0"....

>I reported
>this bug to Sun about 1 year ago.  They supposedly spent long periods
>of time trying to track down the bug and could never find the source.
>I continue to suspect that the driver contains some state info that is
>not getting reset properly after certain errors are detected.

I can't speak for the SCSI driver bug, but it took me about 3 minutes to
find something that might be the reason why the drive can't be opened
once the problem has occurred on the 9-track drive on the Xylogics
controller:

A quick look at the "xt" driver indicates that *if* the error occurs
when the tape is opened (if the tape is being opened for writing, it
appears to write two tape marks before returning from the open), the
driver doesn't clear the "tape drive is open" flag before returning an
error indication.

Unfortunately, finding the problem doesn't help get a fix out; the
original poster'll have to talk to Sun to get that, and given that the
machine's a Sun-3, I don't know how much of a response he'll get.

Also, I've no idea why the drive *does* get the timeout in question;
he'd have to get Sun to answer that one.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bkc2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Benjamin Clardy)
Subject: Re: / and /usr on separate disks in 4.1.3?
Reply-To: bkc2@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 00:17:51 GMT

In article <C17oCA.D75@athena.cs.uga.edu> weinri@athena.cs.uga.edu (Kevin Weinrich) writes:
>I'm about to move up from OS 4.1 to 4.1.3 on my SPARC 1+'s.
>For space reasons, it would be nice to have the root (/)
>partition on one disk and /usr on another.  Is this legal?
>Are there reasons why I should not do it?  I tried to check
>TFM, but the install manual for 4.1.3 doesn't seem to say one
>way or the other.  Our old 4.1.1 manual says that they *should*
>be on the same disk so that the system will boot even if the
>second drive fails.  If I'm willing to accept that risk, does
>anyone know of an over-riding reason not to go ahead and do this?
>
Most / file systems are fairly small unless you need a lot of room
for spooling.  So unless you are cramped for space, why not put
/ on both disks, using one as backup.

Otherwise, I don't really see the caution in splitting up / and /usr.

Benjamin

-- 
Benjamin Clardy					bkc2@midway.uchicago.edu
From: ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Bringing a Sun to it's knees
Date: 25 Jan 1993 15:12:07 -0800
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: almaak.usc.edu

Here at USC I've routinely hit a 20-process (per user) limit.
This is on a 670MP server.
How might it be done?

        -ans.
-- 
Ajay Shah, (213)749-8133, ajayshah@rcf.usc.edu