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From: mike@starburst.umd.edu (Michael F. Santangelo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: ?Postscript to HP PCL converter
Summary: Any UNIX programs around to convert from Postscript to HP PCL
Keywords: Postscript,convert,HP PCL
Date: 6 Nov 92 21:21:55 GMT


I am stuck with a laser printer that can only do HP LaserJet emulation
(HP PCL), it has 2.5 MB of memory.  Problem is I have discovered that I
cannot get a Postscript option for it.  Is there a program that runs
on UNIX systems (SunOS/Ultrix/etc) that takes a .ps or .eps file and
writes out a PCL file (obviously would have to include some form of 
multi font support).

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: brian@panix.com (Brian Childs)
Subject: HELP! static routes getting clobbered by RIP
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 01:13:41 GMT
Distribution: Distribution: 
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC


I have a network with two routers on it,
one router gives access to a company wide LAN (this uses RIP),
the other one gives access to the Internet.

On my workstations I set up the internet router as a static "default" route
with the command 'route add default inrouter 1'.

The problem is the other routers' RIP broadcasts clobber the default static
route and proclaims itself the default route.

Background info:
  company wide land router is an RS-60000 with 3 ethernet cards.
  Internet router is a Netblazer-ST

I think this a problem with my sun workstations allowing it's default route
to be overridden, because the RS-6000 never sends out a RIP packet which
sets a default route.

Any help would be appreciated,
Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no (Steinar Haug)
Subject: Re: Mounting /usr/spool/mail from HP?
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: SINTEF DELAB, Trondheim, Norway.
	<TML.92Nov12030940@hemuli.tik.vtt.fi>
	<1992Nov12.160404.12312@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov>
	<15466@auspex-gw.auspex.com>
Date: 13 Nov 92 09:33:28

>>Now let me tell you what happens when you extract from a Tar archive
>>containing directories you do not own, onto a non-Sun file system.
>>Sun's `tar' proceeds to chown the parent directories before putting
>>anything into them (figuring that this will fail if not root).
>>Surprise, it cannot write the files into the directory...
>
>"Sun's `tar'" is 4.3BSD's "tar", with some additional flags added and
>some miscellaneous cleanup.  The notion that a user should be allowed to
>give files away is an S3/SV-ism; you can probably *ask* for that
>behavior in Solaris 2.x, but I think SVR4 also allows you to configure
>the system *not* to allow it, e.g. if you're using disk quotas.
>
>Yes, differing file system semantics can be annoying, but be *very*
>careful before assigning blame; Sun isn't always the outlier here....

Having tar fail because of chown problems is *one* of the reasons why we
removed the chown possibility for normal users on our HP systems. Things
work much better now :-)

Steinar Haug, system/networks administrator
SINTEF DELAB, University of Trondheim, NORWAY
Email: Steinar.Haug@delab.sintef.no, 
	sthaug@idt.unit.no, steinar@tosca.er.sintef.no
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: machine type in status of crash command
Date: 6 Nov 92 19:06:19 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I don't know why the machine types is "SUN ???". 

Because nobody'd gotten around to telling "crash" what the host ID codes
for SS2's and IPX's were, as of SunOS 4.1.2.

>	However, if I do the same in these machines which run SunOS
>4.1.3, no such a problem.

Apparently, they fixed that in 4.1.3.

>	Any comments?

Don't worry, be happy.
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: avoiding Solaris
Date: 13 Nov 92 05:52:06 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>If they're wrong, in a few years Sun will be where DEC is now...in trouble.

Speaking of DEC, how much more like SV than Ultrix is their OSF/1
release?  I had the general impression that the OSF/1 programming
interface generally went the SV way in those cases where you have to
choose (as opposed to, say, "sockets vs. STREAMS/TLI", where they could
offer both, just as SVR4 does), and that the administrative utilities,
or at least some of them (e.g., "init"), were SVR2-flavor or
SVR3-flavor?

(IBM, HP, and SGI have, I think, already chosen the SV way in most of
the cases where you have to choose....)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tito@di.unipi.it (Tito Flagella)
Subject: problems with some network services adn C2
Organization: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Pisa
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 09:51:33 GMT

Since when we have upgrated to C2, many times our Sun gives the following
errors at boot time:

Nov  4 15:08:20 inti lpd[127]: printer/tcp: unknown service
Nov  4 15:08:20 inti inetd[124]: login/tcp: unknown service

Anybody knows where is the problem?

Thanks,   Tito Flagella
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Tito Flagella
Universita' di Pisa
Dipartimento Informatica	  email:   tito@di.unipi.it

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Andreas Myka)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: number of windows
Date: 4 Nov 1992 14:43:42 GMT
Organization: Uni Tuebingen, Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut
Distribution: world
Reply-To: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: sunpower.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de

Hi,

I have the following problem with an application written in SunView(!)
which runs on SUN SPARCstations (2 and 10):
After several windows (~8) are opened, the creation of the next window
is denied with the following message:

>> Couldn't open window placeholders: Too many open files
>> /dev/win55 would not open (be created)(errno = 24)
>> no more windows available
>> WIN ioctl number 1c: Too many open files
>> window: Window creation failed to get new fd

and the application crashes. Therefore I have the following questions:

- Is there a system variable for the possible number of open files/windows? If yes,
can this number be increased without getting into trouble?
- Can this error be handled internally (by the application)? If yes, how?

Thank you very much for any answers to these questions!

Andreas

email: myka@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jkovacs@qualix.com (Jean Kovacs)
Subject: Adobe TRANSCRIPT 4.0
Keywords: postscript, transcript, printing
Reply-To: jkovacs@qualix.com
Organization: QUALiX Group, Inc.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:41:12 GMT



Adobe had just announced Version 4.0 of TranScript.

This update includes a Motif GUI as well as additional printer
features and filters. (Also includes support for direct ethernet-
connected printers.)

For additional information, refer to comp.newprod or
request information from the Qualix mail server (see below).



QUALIX MAIL SERVER:
-------------------

Qualix Group maintains a mailserver with information files
and demo versions of products. If you'd like more information
on Adobe TranScript, send an e-mail to qfacts@qualix.com
(or uunet!qualix!qfacts) and include the following lines:

send transcript.info


End the message with your name/company name/phone or fax
number.

The TranScript information will automatically be sent
to you.
From: ohnielse@oersted.ltf.dth.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: yppasswdd and expire - problem
Date: 5 Nov 92 11:42:21 GMT
Reply-To: ohnielse@oersted.ltf.dth.dk
Organization: Lab of Applied Physics, Tech. Univ. of Denmark

In article 92Nov4122014@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de, ignatios@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis) writes:
>After expiring a few user's passwords (too easy guessable), it was no
>longer possible to change them with yppasswd. Is this a know problem
>with SunOS 4.1.1's passwd/yppasswd/yppasswdd programs?

I looked into this problem a few weeks ago.  Here is my summary to the 
sun-managers list:

The original question:

>We have some Suns with SunOS 4.1.2 that run NIS and have C2 security
>enabled.  I have installed the C2 Jumbo patch 100564-03 for
>rpc.yppasswdd and rpc.pwdauthd.
>However, with password aging enabled, I cannot change passwords any more,
>either with "passwd -y" or "yppasswd".

The executive summary:
You cannot use password aging with NIS under SunOS 4.X.

More details:

If you use NIS under SunOS 4.X, password aging is terribly broken to
the point where it is essentially useless !  The "passwd -y" or
"yppasswd" do not work, because (at least) the daemon rpc.yppasswdd is
broken.  Essentially, rpc.yppasswdd in obtaining the encrypted password
does not strip off the last bytes that pertain to password aging,
but just bombs out with the error message "Bad password in adjunct".
Someone said that Sun "do not support passwd aging with NIS and don't
have plans to in the near future."
Another statement: "Password aging does not work with NIS, C2 or not.
Fixed in Solaris 2.0."

FLAME: What's the point of Sun offering password-aging in SunOS 4.X,
when it's so terribly broken that it won't work under NIS (A flagship
of Sun, remember...) ???  Why will Sun not commit to making a patch
available to rpc.yppasswdd, but just offer the arrogant solution
of upgrading to Solaris 2.0 ???

Thanks to:
dunstan@gec-epl.co.uk (Dunstan_Vavasour)
Poul.Sorensen@nilu.no
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
denise@kokopeli.agps.lanl.gov (Denise Richards)
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>

With best regards,

Ole H. Nielsen
Laboratory of Applied Physics, Building 307
Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
E-mail: Ole.Holm.Nielsen@ltf.dth.dk
Telephone: (+45) 42 88 24 88 ext. 3187
Telefax:   (+45) 45 93 23 99
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ignatios@cauchy.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: Standalone sun resolv?
Organization: /home/theory/ignatios/.organization
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 10:57:06 GMT

Hm...

my "solution" was to put an Ethernet shunt (y'now, those little boxes
with one green LED on the back which you can plug in instead of an
ethernet transceiver cable) on the back, name the domain loopback,
ifconfig the le0 interface to the loopback address, and RUN NIS on
that...

It's a horrible hack, and I would like to replace it with something
else, but it works.

I was 3/4th on my way to install a resolv only libc when I discovered
that SunView does use rpc sometimes, so I did it this way, as I had to
configure in that device anyway.

Please tell me if s.b. tells you s.th. better.

--
	Ignatios Souvatzis
	ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de souva@babsy.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:8248 comp.unix.admin:6185 comp.unix.ultrix:8304
From: mkc@Graphics.Cornell.edu (Mitch Collinsworth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Network Monitoring Software Help...
Date: 13 Nov 1992 16:49:18 -0500
Organization: Cornell University Program of Computer Graphics, Ithaca, NY
NNTP-Posting-Host: rex.graphics.cornell.edu

In article <2B028B72.9953@news.service.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:

>NNstat is available via anonymous ftp from venera.isi.edu in 
>pub/NNstat.tar.Z.

It's NNStat.tar.Z.

-Mitch Collinsworth
 mitch@graphics.cornell.edu
From: joe@gauss.msri.org (Joe Christy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SPARCprinter page counts
Date: 13 Nov 1992 17:42:02 GMT
Organization: Mathematical Sciences Research Institute
Distribution: world
Reply-To: joe@msri.org
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.188.58
Keywords: SPARCprinter page counts

How does one get a SPARCprinter page count? I've been told some mumbo-jumbo
about the invisible buttons on the LED panel, but I can only get numbers
which are invariant accross our three SPARCprinters, an extremely unlikely
coincidence for actual page counts. Is there some documented way which
doesn't involve such a hostile interface?


Joe Christy   |      Head of Mathematical Computing      | Two wrongs
joe@msri.org  | Mathematical Sciences Research Institute | don't make a right,
(510)643-6069 |          1000 Centennial Drive           | but three lefts do
**************|           Berkeley, CA 94720             |********************
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: cut/paste in OW3.0 shelltool
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 03:23:53 GMT

There seems to be a bug in SHELLTOOL in OW3.0.  When you use
cut (and paste), an (extra) space is appended to each cut line.
Anyone else seen this?

Bill

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From: goran@astro.uu.se (Goran Hammarback)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: pcfs (PC-DOS filesystem) performance
Date: 7 Nov 1992 13:35:41 GMT
Organization: Uppsala University
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: solaris.astro.uu.se

In article <seltzer.721096843@bearsan>, seltzer@sda.com (Wayne Seltzer) writes:
|> Pardon me if this has been discussed before...
|> Is there any way to improve the performance of Sun's pcfs?
|> Reading and writing DOS floppies using pcfs is amazingly slow.
|> 
|> I thought I remember hearing about some commercial products that
|> do the same thing, but with better performance.
|> I don't want to emulate DOS; just read/write DOS floppies.
|> --

Get hold of the pd Mtools package, it reads and writes DOS floppies
infinitely faster than pcfs.  The only disadvantage is that it's
command driven, the disk is not mounted, so it can't be seen by
the filemanager.

-- 

Goran

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Goran Hammarback              |     goran@astro.uu.se
Astronomiska Observatoriet    |
Uppsala Universitet           |
S-751 20 SWEDEN               |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Disabling L1-A sequence?
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 18:18:11 GMT

In article <23694@galaxy.ucr.edu> masterm@ucrengr.ucr.edu (Boyle Mow) writes:
>
>Forgive me if this a FAQ, but is there a way to disable the key
>sequence of 'L1-A' (used to enter the PROM)?   Thanks in advance.
>
>Boyle
>
>masterm@ucrengr.ucr.edu

There is a file in /etc, either /etc/ttys or /etc/ttytab (I use both
SunOS and Ultrix machines, and I can't currently remember which is
which).  The first line in the file should contain the word "console".
There will be the word "secure" on that same line.  I think that if you
delete the word "secure", L1-A will be disabled.  I would be very
careful about doing this, though, because that L1-A ability has saved my
butt before...
-- 
Marc Fraioli
mfraioli@grebyn.com	        	(So I'm a minimalist...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: Loopback mounts not working; why not?
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 09:31:30 GMT

jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens) writes:

>Thanks go out to everyone who pointed out to me in E-mail that
>loopback mounts were not working for me because I don't have "options
>LOFS" in my kernel's config file.

>What I don't understand is why none of the documentation I pored over
>mentioned that it was a kernel configuration option or mentioned
>kernel configuration in the "SEE ALSO" section.

man lofs says:

NAME
     lofs - loopback virtual file system

CONFIG
     options LOFS

SYNOPSIS
     #include <sys/mount.h>
     mount(MOUNT_LOFS, virtual, flags, dir);


Which documents did you use?

Casper
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: bartel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Elmar Bartel)
Subject: Re: Sun is violating the Ethernet-Spec with its machines.
Keywords: Ethernet, Collisions, SparcI, SLC
Originator: bartel@sunsystem2.informatik.tu-muenchen.de
Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1992 16:54:04 GMT
Reply-To: Elmar.Bartel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE


Hi,

A lot of mail received me, conerning this problem,
and showed me that it's neccesary to post some clarifying notes:

   1) The mentioned problem occurs with machines
      byed before end of 1991. All machines we byed after then
      don't show this problem, or the effect has ceased
      in such a manner that we would'nt call it a violation.

   2) At this time we have buyed mostly SS1 and SLCs
      (about 250).  But we have also a IPC II machine buyed 1.Sep.
      1991 which shows this problem also. But we have only
      a few machines of this type.
      Other machine types may show the same behaviour, but
      I cannot tell, since we don't have them.

   3) Since then we haven't buyed more sun's. :-)
      But not for that reason, but the snake were coming up.

Then some more technical details. (I mailed some of this stuff
already to some of you)

   1) We use thick ethernet.
   2) We measure the signal on the transmit-line of the AUI
      cable when the receive-line is active.
   3) This situation is described in a document of IEEE:
      The CSMA/CD Access Method and Physical Layer Specification.
      point 7.4.4.1
   4) It is sufficient to connect a powerd on machine to the
      ethernet. There is no need to run any SW on the machine.
   5) If you want to see it four yourself with an Scope,
      we used a 100MHz Tek-Scope (2245A) with TekProbes,
      two channels, one showing the transmit-line, the other
      the receive line. Measureing on an adapter (own build) put
      between the tranceiver, and the AUI cable, 

Hope this clarifies the matter a little bit.

Yours,
	Elmar Bartel.

Also as in the last posting: contact me via e-mail.
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:8202 comp.sys.hp:12847
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Mounting /usr/spool/mail from HP?
Date: 12 Nov 92 19:56:50 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Now let me tell you what happens when you extract from a Tar archive
>containing directories you do not own, onto a non-Sun file system.
>Sun's `tar' proceeds to chown the parent directories before putting
>anything into them (figuring that this will fail if not root).
>Surprise, it cannot write the files into the directory...

"Sun's `tar'" is 4.3BSD's "tar", with some additional flags added and
some miscellaneous cleanup.  The notion that a user should be allowed to
give files away is an S3/SV-ism; you can probably *ask* for that
behavior in Solaris 2.x, but I think SVR4 also allows you to configure
the system *not* to allow it, e.g. if you're using disk quotas.

Yes, differing file system semantics can be annoying, but be *very*
careful before assigning blame; Sun isn't always the outlier here....
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: grabenst@umbc4.umbc.edu (Mr. Michael Grabenstein; ACS (GUEST))
Subject: ypserv Map problem. (SunOS 4.1.1)
Organization: Univ. of MD, Baltimore County
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 02:42:44 GMT

	Thanks to those who responed to my SunOS miniroot problem
If anyone else need that info, just e-mail me.

	Not onto bigger and worse things:
I have a sparc station 2 running as a NIS server, serving 7 diskless
clients. I just re-installed the OS and it started having this problem
right away, when a student changes his passwd on a client the serve
gets this message blasted across its screen:

0 0 1
/bin/csh John B. Student MJEvdRIsp5XqU
/bin/csh John B. Student MQDJgO/WucnZQ
`/usr/etc/rpc.yppasswdd' is up to date.
`/etc/passwd' is up to date.
updated passwd

Map passwd.byname at aaccsuns is not more recent than local.
 
Map passwd.byuid at aaccsuns is not more recent than local.
pushed passwd

	The Map error comes up just like it was "croned" to.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
	Mike
	grabenst@umbc3.umbc.edu
	or mikeg@asylum.gsfc.nasa.gov
From: sinclair@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan Sinclair)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: The case of the symbolic link traversal in 4.1.3
Date: 5 Nov 92 14:41:11 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.

dhesi@cirrus.com (Rahul Dhesi) writes:

>In <Bx7G25.4C0@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> sinclair@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (Duncan
>Sinclair) writes:

>>Then when I saw this I ran a few tests, seems that it's not ls's fault,
>>but the 4.1.3 kernel that does this.  It has changed the path semantics,
>>so that "foo/" == "foo", rather than "foo/" == "foo/."

>But I don't see how "x/" can ever correctly refer to anything except a
>directory.  A kernel that simply ignores the trailing slash is broken,
>in my opinion.  At the very least, there should be a check to make sure
>that x/ is a directory.

Agreed, this is completely bogus.  I hadn't even thought of this
as a possibility before.

I hope no shell will pattern match "*/" and include files as
well as directories, I know zsh does it right.  What is needed
is for the shell to do the check that the kernel doesn't.

>System V has been thus broken for some years.  It has lately become
>fashionable to incorporate System V's bugs into other OSs.  POSIX
>mandates this behavior too.

This stinks.


-- D*S


-- 
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From: kde@boi.hp.com (Keith Emmen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: DAT's on 4.1.2
Date: 7 Nov 92 20:27:55 GMT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard / Boise, Idaho
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1scd1 PL4

ats@bigfoot.first.gmd.de (Andreas Schulz) writes:
: First better make a "MAKEDEV st0" under /dev to get all the necessary
: devices.

When I tried that, this happened:

 # cd /dev
 # ls -l st*
st* not found
 # ls -l rst*
rst* not found
 # MAKEDEV st
mknod: File exists
mknod: File exists
mknod: File exists
mknod: File exists
 # ls -l st*
st* not found
 # ls -l rst*
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      18,   0 Nov  7 13:22 rst0
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      18,  16 Nov  7 13:22 rst16
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      18,  24 Nov  7 13:22 rst24
crw-rw-rw-  1 root      18,   8 Nov  7 13:22 rst8
 #
But I'm not worried, since the device works.

: And for your DAT tape, get a better distributor :-).

This one is sad.  I work at the site where they make DAT drives.  :-(

Keith Emmen
kde@hpdmd48.boi.hp.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: fauerbac@ivy.cs.unca.edu (John Fauerbach)
Subject: HELP! Exabyte 8500c will not work
Organization: University of North Carolina at Asheville
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 19:57:47 GMT

I have an Exabyte 8500c tape drive that will not read or write at any mode.  I 
have tried all of the device drivers and none of them works.  The drive works
fine on an IBM RS/6000.  I have other 8200 and 8500 drives that all works fine.
I am using a SPARC 2 with Sun OS 4.1.3.  Has anyone got one of these drives
working on a Sun?  NOTE: 8500c is a new compression drive from Exabyte. 

John Fauerbach