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From: rct@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Richard Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: Puzzle Systems
Date: 13 Aug 92 13:58:10 GMT
Organization: Fulcrum Communications

In article <mitch.713111053@unidata.ucar.edu> mitch@unidata.ucar.edu (Mitch Baltuch) writes:
>We have been looking for an S-bus intel board.  Puzzle Systems seems to have
>such a thing and I was wondering if anyone has had any experiences with it.
>Will it run most/all dos applications, or is it one of those deals where it
>runs a few, but none of the ones you need.
>

I used one of Puzzle's earliest Intel boards and was very impressed with it.
We ran most of the 'standard' PC packages such as Windows, Lotus, etc. with no
problems whatsoever. At that time, they weren't very fast (16Mz 386) but now I
think they should be quite a bit quicker, since they have 486 version (?).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Login box for openwin
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:43:18 GMT

In <1992Aug12.140542.28436@eua.ericsson.se> per@erix.ericsson.se (Per Hedeland) writes:

>In article <1992Aug11.013417.15041@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>|> >  There should still be a way to get to the
>|> >console vt100 emulator in case the user wanted to run something else,
>|> >like sunview.  A button or a magic login name might do it.

>Well, not impossible - at least we're doing it, but it's perhaps a bit
>awkward...

>But there are other ways - xdm has the abort-display() action, which can
>be bound to a e.g. a function key and will cause it to just kill the X
>server and stop managing the display in question.

>Finally, getting xdm to fire up the X server again is done by logging in
>as a dummy user, which may or may not have a password and has the
>program below as "login shell"

Thanks, this is getting near to perfection.  It would be really nice if
the getty login could time out after a minute or so, and the X server
start up in its place.  Then, you could hit the magic function key to
kill the X server and login on the console terminal emulator, and after
you logged out, and after a minute's pause, the X server would pop up
its login box again.  I haven't thought through how to do this yet.
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: auto set display variable on X terms
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:48:31 GMT

On Thu, 20 Aug 1992 14:40:01 GMT, ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter) said:

> --
> I am looking for the easy way to set the DISPLAY variable when a user
> signs in. We have some
> X terminals and they login to the Sparc and have to set the display
> variable themselves, 
> what is the easy way to find out from the login process what terminal
> they are signing in from.

Using the output of 'who am i' usually works, but has some drawback.

set disphost=`who am i | sed -n -e 's/^.*(//;s/)$//;l'`

This will be fine, if the X-Terms have names which aren't too long.  If they
are over (I think?) 13 chars, then you can just look for the parse the 
'who am i' output for matching characters and fill in the rest yourself, i.e.

# Hosts all in same domain
set possible_hosts=(host_a host_b host_c)

foreach hostcheck ( $possible_hosts )
   if ( `echo $defhost | egrep -c $hostcheck` != 0 ) then
	setenv DISPLAY $hostcheck.domain:0.0
   endif
end

Was that clear enough?  Well, anyway, this seems to work.  The only place
this won't work is if you decide to log into another computer.  But it's 
a start.

--John
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From: phil@mage (Phil Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: difficulties with add_services
Date: 20 Aug 92 16:54:18 GMT
Reply-To: phil@oryx.com
Organization: Oryx Energy, Dallas, Texas.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have a 690MP running 4.1.2.  He serves about 30 diskless clients who
are all running 4.1.1.

I need to upgrade SOME of the clients to 4.1.2.

When I run add_services and say I want to add a new release: Sun4c 4.1.2
The system automatically points kvm to /export where it should go, but
executables are in /usr by default.  No matter what I do, the system wants
to put root (required) on /, even if I change executables to
/export/exec/sunos.sun4c.4.1.2

That would be disastrous, so I'm afraid to pull the trigger.  What simple
idiot thing did I miss?  I've been through the manuals, and they claim that
the executables in /usr (default entry) is correct.

What's going on?

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From: bush@ecs.ox.ac.uk (Mark Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Questions about booting from a floppy. (IPC)
Date: 13 Aug 92 17:05:22 GMT
Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory

In article <1992Aug13.145653.7605@ncar.ucar.edu> nws@stout.atd.ucar.edu (Eddie Roberts (The National Weather Service)) writes:
#Questions:
#1).  Is it possible to tell the boot program to use the
#     kernel on the disk?

Use `b floppy -a' which will prompt you for where to find everything.

See boot(8) for details.

Mark
From: minieri@enterprise.gatech.edu (Joe Minieri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: DNS & accounting help needed
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:12:32 GMT
Distribution: usa
Originator: minieri@enterprise

I am looking to setup DNS - but the sun manual seems
confusing to me.  Someone told me to find a good book
on DNS and ignore the manuals.  So - what is the name
of a good book and where can I get it?

Also, I am looking for a way to use the accounting
that comes on the suns to bill charges to "groups"
not users - Ican't find anything in the manuals about
this either - so it problably doesn't exist.  Is there
any third party software that does this or are future
releases of SunOS (Solaris) going to have this feature?

Thanks alot!

-- 
|                                |
|Joe Minieri                     | "I'm so hip I have trouble seeing
|minieri@cerl.gatech.edu         |          over my pelvis!"
|                                |     -Zaphod Beeblebrox
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
Date: 18 Aug 1992 04:42:01 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
>My problem is that whenever mail for a
>user comes in; the server machine has to automount their home directory in
>order to determine if they have a .forward file.

At our site, we don't mount user home directories on our mail server, so we
don't use .forward files.  Instead, we let people have access to the
aliases file.  Unfortunately, this may not be appropriate at an university
site like yours.

You could create a parallel set of home directories on the mail server,
just for containing .forward files.  You can either teach your users to
refer to these files instead of their regular .forward files, or you could
create symbolic links to them from users' directories.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rick@cs.uno.edu (Rick Loggins)
Subject: Printcap entry for   DATAPRODUCTS Model B600  & Apple ImageWriter
Organization: University of New Orleans
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 21:58:20 GMT


We are looking for two printcap entries to be used with a Sun Print server   
(i.e.  SUN 670):

	1:  DATAPRODUCTS Line Printer Model B600 connected to a  s-bus  
parallel port [/dev/bpp0].

	2:  Apple ImageWriter connected to serial port [/dev/ttyb].

Any help in this search is appreciated!!!!  

Response by e-mail, if possible.
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From: rfj@ultra.com (Ray Jackson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: creating restricted shell environments
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:15:34 GMT
Organization: Ultra Network Technologies

In <1992Aug10.171606.11806@oakhill.sps.mot.com> guri@sps.mot.com
(Gurvinder Singh Ahluwalia) writes:

>Thanks for the one restriction pointed out. Does someone have a
>list of restrictions that are implemented by the Bourne Shell.  I 
>am particularly interested in SunOS 4.1.1.

  I just tried setting up an account under 4.1.2 that runs /usr/lib/rsh.
It's not very restricted:

$ cd /
cd: restricted
$ more /var/adm/messages
[stuff deleted]
!/bin/csh
/usr/lib/rsh: /bin/csh: restricted
------------------------
!csh
ultra% cd /
ultra% pwd
/
ultra% touch /tmp/test.rsh
ultra% ls -l /tmp/test.rsh
-rw-r--r--  1 raccnt          0 Aug 14 13:11 /tmp/test.rsh
ultra% 

  Is there a way to make rsh really restricted?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: clance@jupiter.newcastle.edu.au (Kate Lance)
Subject: rcp error message
Summary: initialization script error, not patches.
Keywords: stty
Organization: Uni of Newcastle, Australia
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:33:24 GMT

I recently asked about an error message generated whenever rcp and rsh
were used after a patch upgrade -  
stty: TCGETS: Operation not supported on socket  

Thanks to all the helpful replies - it seems that we had moved an stty
definition into the wrong startup file. The replies pointed out that we
probably had `stty' in .cshrc rather than in .login where it belonged.
Since we use bash, it was in .bashrc, instead of in .bash_profile, and 
the problem went away when it was moved.  The reason it seemed to be a 
result of the patches was that, by coincidence, the first activity after 
the patches was tidying up the initialization scripts and rcp'ing them 
to the other machines!

Thanks to Jyrki Havia, Gary Mills, Robert Montjoy, Manfred Kwiatkowsk,
Jeff Beadles, Robert Earl, Per Hedeland, smb@ulysses.att.com, Glenn
Satchell, and anyone else whose message is still on the way.

Kate Lance,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Newcastle,
NSW, Australia.                     clance@cs.newcastle.edu.au
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problem with Netgroups
Date: 18 Aug 92 18:36:55 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>IMHO, exportfs should be rewritten to allow netgroups also be specified
>in root and rw.

The way "-root" and "-rw" currently work is that a list of IP addresses
is shoved down into the kernel.

If netgroups could be used in "-root" and "-rw", you'd probably have to
arrange, somehow, that file systems using a netgroup in "-root" or "-rw"
be re-exported whenever the netgroup's list of members changes.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lsimon@paradyne.com (Lenny Simon)
Subject: BudTool
Organization: AT&T Paradyne, Largo, Florida
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 19:58:03 GMT

We have been contemplating the purchase of
BudTool for our network backups. Has anyone
any news on the software - good or bad it
will be appreciated.

Thanks

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:5753 comp.unix.admin:4645
From: ahalim@ics.uci.edu
Subject: page size
Date: 22 Aug 92 23:45:21 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin


How does one determine the size of the memory page?
[For SunOS 4.1.2]

Thanks
/aha
From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: restore problem????
Date: 19 Aug 92 22:39:24 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bradley University


System: Sun 4/470, running SunOS 4.1.2

I have an incremental dump tape with multiple partitions backed up on the
same DC-6150.  In the past, I've always restored single files with
"restore -ifs /dev/rst1 $skip" and then "add"ed the file and done an extract.
When it asks for volume number, I always say "1", and it works fine.

Except now I'm trying to restore a file and even though it shows up with
an ls of the backup, it always comes back and asks for another volume.
I've tried using /dev/nrst1 instead, and it doesn't work either.


Does ANYONE have any idea what the problem is?
-- 
Pete Hartman		       Bradley University	pwh@bradley.bradley.edu
             Don't make me mad.  You wouldn't like me when I'm mad.
From: bcs@waikato.ac.nz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SOLVED: Sun NFS clients need root access?
Date: 14 Aug 92 14:46:50 +1200
Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

Hi all,

Yesterday I posted a question re /etc/exports and the "-access=b:c:d" not
allowing b, c, or d to mount the filesystem...

|But if I make a:/etc/exports read "/usr/local -access=b:c:d,root=b:c:d"
|everything works fine.  This is not the behaviour described in the

It appears that this is actually a problem with my NIS netgroup map.  Never
dawned on me to mention that b, c, and d are actually netgroups rather than
hosts. Heh 8-|

The problem with my netgroups was that I never realised that it is the NIS
domain, rather than the domain part of the hosts FQDN that netgroup(5) is
talking about.  Moreover, it is the NIS domain in which the access is to be
allowed/denied, rather than the NIS domain of the host described by the
netgroup entry!

i.e. if host "a" is in NIS domain "blah.cs.waikato.ac.nz", and wishes to
export /usr/local to "b", "c" & "d" in the same or some other NIS domain
(or not running NIS at all), the correct netgroup entries are:

x  (x,,blah.cs.waikato.ac.nz)
y  (y,,blah.cs.waikato.ac.nz)
z  (z,,blah.cs.waikato.ac.nz)
b  x y z

Then "/usr/local  -access=b" does the trick nicely.

Thanx for the three or four replies so far, but you didn't really have
enough to go on people.

+-Brent Summers, U of Waikato, NZ----------------------------------------+
|    "Laugh and the world ignores you.  Crying doesn't help either."     |
|      All opinions expressed are, of course, solely my own errors.      |
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From: steve@cse.fau.edu (Steve Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: XGL 2.0 RTE Libraries
Date: 21 Aug 92 00:27:31 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA

In article <1992Aug20.174240.8241@trantor.harris-atd.com> ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter) writes:
>--I just got the XGL 2.0 RTE Libraries CD.  I'm not sure what it does for me!
>--(talk about Dumb questions!).  I realize they are libraries and assume they
>--will (based on the 1-sentence explanation that comes with the CD) speed up
>--certain graphics operations on the Sparc system.
>--
>--Do ordinary OW3.0 applications use these libraries if present?
>--
>--Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
>--
>--Bill
>
>The XGL libraries are for graphics acceleration. If you have some kind
>of accelerator,
>GX, GS, GT then you will get some benfit from the XGL RTE.
>(my understanding of the product)

I believe this is the library on which PHIGS is based.  You would need
an application that uses XGL calls to benefit from this product.  Such
programs would be 3D graphics/ redering types of things.


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From: PCV1584@MVS.draper.com (Peter Vernam)
Subject: the fuser(8) command does not seem to work correctly
Organization: Draper Laboratory
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 21:25:00 GMT

I can't seem to get the SUNOS 4.1.{1,2} fuser(8) command to report on normal
files that are open by processes.  It does, however, report on files that are
current working directories (suffix c), and for executable files that are
being executed (suffix v).

When I use the fuser command on an IBM RS/6000 (running AIX 3.1.5), it
correctly reports on normal open files.

Does anyone have any idea why the Sun fuser command appears to be broken?
From: se@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Steve Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How long can access list be in exports(5)?
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:12:25 GMT
Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK.

In article <1992Aug13.135543.15777@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) writes:
>On the subject of exporting file systems for NFS in a non-NIS environment, just
>what is the limit on the length of an "-access=" list in /etc/exports?  

Well, there's a bug in it, such that if a line is over 255 characters,
it is exported to the world.

Steve
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University of Lancaster, Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK
PHONE: +44 524 65201 ext 3783.
From: abao@sunwise (Angela Bao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: (Q) How to copy boot tapes?
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:56:46 GMT
Reply-To: abao@sunwise.hac.com
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

jack@wort.uucp (Jack Bell) writes:
: In article <1992Aug3.140314.22182@ugle.unit.no> halvard@trd.sdata.no (Halvard Halvorsen) writes:
: >
: >or use copytape. (and use archie to find it)
: >
: >NAME
: >     copytape - duplicate magtapes
: 
: 
: Or, if you have access to a second tape drive on the sun (or network?)...
: use tcopy (which is part of your sun release!) I kicked myself when I 
: stumbled across this one...!  Works great, BTW.
: 
: NAME
:      tcopy - copy a magnetic tape

...


Are we out of luck now that Sun no longer provides bootable
tapes but bootable CDs only?   Is there any way to make a 
bootable tape from the CD?


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From: m.abbott@eleceng.ucl.ac.uk (Mark Abbott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:27:12 GMT
Organization: Elec. Eng., University College London, UK
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d1

In article <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> Bill Bogstad,
bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu writes:
>	I'm wondering if anybody has a suggestion on a problem I have with
>the way my network of Suns is currently configured.  We have a central
>machine which receives most mail and stores it in a mail spool directory
>which is NFS mounted from about 35 other Suns.  This allows people to
access
>their mail from any machine on the network.  Likewise their home
directory,
>(just about all of those 35 machines) is (auto) NFS mounted on the server
>and other machines on the network.

We have a similar set-up, with a central mail-server and a shared home
directories, here in my department.  What we've done to stop Bill's
problem is to arrange for mail for each user to be delivered to the host
which has their home directory physically (i.e. not NFS) mounted.  The
main reason this was done is because I don't have control over all of the
hosts here and so this scheme allows me to forward mail and have the
owner of the host do whatever they want with it.  Another point is that
in the event of a host going down, the mail transport system is likely to
handle the situation more sensibly than NFS.  For mail messages you don't
want the delivering process on the server to block while it waits for the
NFS mount to be available.  By mailing the message to the host, the mail
transport system will check periodically and if the host is still down,
leave the message in the queue.  After all, it was designed to work this
way.

For this scheme to work, you need to a nice alias list to map usernames
into username@some-local-host.  Only the mail-server has this alias list
here since all other machines forward non-local mail to the mail-server. 
This does mean that a message might go via the server when it could be
directly delivered to another local host.  However, I have to maintain
all of the mailer configuration files for each host, and this scheme
reduces the amount of work I have to do, especially when a new host is
added to the network.

Hope this helps,
Mark.
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From: peter@orfeo.rhein-main.de (Peter Radig)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SunSolve Searcher not Working
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:07:01 GMT
Organization: Peter Radig EDV-Beratung, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Phone: +49 69 746972
Address: Palmengartenstr. 1, D-W6000 Frankfurt am Main 1, Germany
Fax: +49 69 7411443

In <1992Aug17.160610.12893@csoc.COM> benny@csoc.COM (Benny Clark) writes:

>I just received my copy of SunSolve.  The installation seemed
>to go without a hitch.  However, I can't search for anything.

>I key in my search, tell it to do its thing, and it always
>times out without finding anything.  Am I doing something
>stupid or what?

>Any info is appreciated.

There is a bug in SearchTool's determination of the host name you're
running it at (at least if you run NIS or named on your system).

If `domainname` is a.b.c and `hostname` is d then rpc.solved tries
to send the answer of a search to the host named d.b.c (in spite of
d.a.b.c).

So you have to create an appropriate entry for NIS or named for
the (not existing) host d.b.c and it will work.

cu,
Peter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: weingart@inf.ethz.ch (Tobias Weingartner)
Subject: Dynamic linking.
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: ld.so
Reply-To: weingart@inf.ethz.ch
Organization: ETH - Switzerland
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 13:55:15 GMT


Hello, can anyone help me with this?

I need a program (source!) that takes a list
of files (argv), and tells me with which
dynamic lib's it will be linked at run time.

Does anyone have such a beast?

Thanks much in advance.

--Toby.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc