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From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: rdist
Date: 1 Jan 93 05:44:12 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ

>It does multiple hosts in parallel. It has all the various
>security holes fixed (and does not run setuid)..

From the Makefile:

install -c -o root -g bin -m 4751 rdist /usr/ucb/rdist
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From: osh@cray.com (O'Shaughnessy John)
Subject: Re: Hooking up an ethernet printer
Organization: Cray Research, Inc, Mendota Heights, MN
Date: 9 Jan 93 15:36:36 CST

If you are printing via a serial port at 9600 or 19200 bps, you should see a
real speedup with larger files over the Ethernet network.

We've got a QMS PS-1700 printer on the network, and it performs very nicely
with large PostScript files, for example.

As far as configuration goes, you treat the printer as a networkable device.
For example, for our QMS to receive data via TCP/IP, we configure it via 
the front panel with an IP address, etc.  After that point, it's pingable and
ftp'able for diagnostic purposes.

This printer is also configured to receive prints from an AppleTalk network,
and from a Novell network, although only the TCP/IP requests come directly
in via Ethernet.  The printer can't handle multiple protocols on one interface,
so we use a Dayna Etherprint device to get from Ethernet to LocalTalk, and
the NetWare jobs enter via a serial connection on the printer.  It's 
pretty slick.

The QMS comes with driver software for the host which needs to be installed.
The installation is simple, but the software is required, you can't just add
an entry to your /etc/printcap file to make things work.
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From: ibarrac@kzin.fiu.edu (Carlos A. Ibarra)
Subject: Parity problems in dialin line
Organization: Florida International University, Miami
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:11:28 GMT

I have a Sun 3/60 running 4.1.1 with a Zoom 14.4 Kbps modem attached to 
/dev/ttya. The cable carries all the proper signals, etc. I configured the
gettytab entry for no parity and 8 bits, and we have a user dialing in with
an HDS X terminal with PPP. The problem is that the Sun sometimes accepts
the dialin with the port set to seven bit even parity, leading to a garbled
login prompt and garbage characters being echoed back to the terminal. It was
working fine for a couple of weeks then we rebooted and it started doing this
again.

My /etc/gettytab entry looks like this:
zoom.38400:\
        :p8:\
        :m2=crtscts,-clocal:\
        :sp#38400:

I added the -clocal recently, but I don't think that will make any difference.

My /etc/ttytab entry:
ttya    "/usr/etc/getty zoom.38400"     dialup          on remote

There are no other lines in /etc/ttytab referring to that port or to the
corresponding cua0 port. 
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From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Subject: Re: rdist on Sun IPX
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 15:18:18 GMT

In article <1993Jan6.235233.10107@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri) writes:
[why must you delete attribution lines?  It's rude]
>>>So, you don't mind unreasonable line-length problems,
>
>>So have a front-end that takes care of things like netgroups, etc,
>>for you.
>
>Explain to me how netgroups are going to handle the following /etc/hosts entry:
>
>129.73.1.77 host host.sub.domain alias alias.sub.domain printer1host \
>	printer1host.sub.domain printer2host printer2host.sub.domain \
>	printer3host printer3host.sub.domain printer4host \
>	printer4host.sub.domain printer5host printer5host.sub.domain mailhost \
>	mailhost.sub.domain loghost loghost.sub.domain

If you are using this many aliases then you're either doing something the
wrong way, or should use DNS anyway, IMHO.

>>Well, you have to rdist your files to every machine everytime you
>>change something.
>
>Overnight works well enough for most tasks.

Fine, so do a "cd /var/yp;make" from cron each night.  I thought you
said I had to rebuild the dbm files every time I changed something.
You're changing your mind?

>I've nothing but nightmares with slave servers.  I've seen them decide that
>they're the master, for example.

/usr/etc/ypbind -s -ypsetme;/usr/etc/yp/ypset localhost
on slaves and masters does wonders.

>>whenever I change it than rdist
>>it to 31 machines.
>
>cron.  What happens when those slaves are down?

/usr/etc/ypxfr_[12]per{hour|day}


Like I said before, NIS has lots of faults.  I don't like it much
myself, but it has its good points.

--Dave
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From: jefff@meaddata.com (Jeff Fleck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SPARCprinter 20
Date: 12 Jan 1993 16:59:04 GMT
Organization: Mead Data Central, Dayton OH
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: headdawg.meaddata.com

Does anyone have any experience with the SPARCprinter 20 using
NewsPrint hooked to an IPX?   What is the actual page per minute?  What
is the effect on the workstation?   Thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
Subject: Re: dial-in modem setup
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
Distribution: na
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 19:09:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.122720.10496@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> x03@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (A. Stegmeier) writes:
> In article <BzyFyu.1D6@quadsys.com> roland@quadsys.com (Roland Besserer) writes:
> >Anyway, gettydefs is a pretty good example of how System V systems 
> >management, though different from BSD, is generally superior - aka easier.
> 					*********************   =8-|.

He's right. Sun picked this stuff up from System V.
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From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Subject: Re: rdist on Sun IPX
Organization: Bradley University
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 22:15:35 GMT

In <jg31Hxknxb@atlantis.psu.edu> barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr) writes:
>>>Yes, there are security problems, yes, there are gotchas, but overall
>>>it works.  For me, I have a network of now 31 machines.
>>Try it with several hundred.
>I'm eager to.  How do you manage?

You seem to think that there are acceptable security problems.
If I can make something work more securely, it's worth whatever
hassles there are involved.  I don't manage several hundred myself,
only about 34, and I know first hand what a hassle it can be
without NIS.  Nonetheless, I find it manageable with my own tools,
and getting better whenever I have the time to go back and correct
mistakes I made when I didn't know anything about managing Suns and
was trying to teach myself.


Of course it would be wonderful if someone would write a passwd/other
database network manager and backup programs that were generalized to
Unixes of all types and *worked*, but until they do, my tools will
suffice.  Until they do, the hassle of finding workarounds for all
my site-specific needs that aren't met, and the hassle of dealing
with security problems that haven't been fixed in several releases
of the OS just aren't worth the tradeoff to me.  Your mileage may vary.
-- 
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                     Life's a sham and every move is wrong
                  We've examined every move as we move along.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: davy@ecn.purdue.edu (Dave Curry)
Subject: Re: CAP and Solaris 2.1
Reply-To: davy@ecn.purdue.edu
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 14:45:30 GMT

In article <gavin.726819953@sorokin>, gavin@sorokin.anu.edu.au (Gavin K. Longmuir) writes:
|> Has anyone that uses CAP upgraded to Solaris 2.1?
|> 
|> I understand that there is a problem because there is no nit support in
|> SunOS 5.1. Anyone????

Just to preclude flames from people who haven't looked...  the nit *functionality*
is present in SunOS 5.1/Solaris 2.1, but the interface is a bit different.  It's
still a streams-based interface, but it seems (from a *brief* scan of the manual
pages) that you open the ethernet drivers directly instead of using the pseudo
interface "nit" gave you (since the ethernet drivers weren't streams-based).

No, I haven't tried porting CAP, and I haven't tried porting NFSwatch, and I
haven't played with this stuff yet.  But it's probably just a "small matter
of programming".

--Dave
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: NIS passwd != yppasswd
Date: 5 Jan 1993 18:24:12 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

Thanks for all the replies. What I thought was that NIS != yp
hence I didn't want to add the yppasswd daemon entry to my main
machine to mix and match the two. But I guess this is the way to go
so I;ll do that. Thanks again.

Thomas.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: Uh-oh, Solaris 2.1 is here...
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:23:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan12.140017.9168@einoed.in-berlin.de> alh@einoed.in-berlin.de (Adrian Le Hanne) says:
: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
: 
: >I thought that the suninstall program did a very clear job of
: >indicating which packages were available and letting you choose which
: >to install.  Much nicer than the 4.1.x suninstall method.
: 
: The installation at boot time only gives the choice between 'End user' and 
: 'Developer', so i choose the last.

2.0 and 2.1 both gave me these two plus a full installation option.
And all three would then allow you to go in and add specific packages
to the list.  I can't point to the exact wording because my 2.1
platform is currently in use elsewhere as a 4.1.3 system.  But I
distinctly remember it allowing me to pick and choose packages.

: The 'swmtool' is indeed a nice tool but lacks some options for everyday
: use (as example, i would like to see where packages get installed and 
: of which files the packages consist).

I haven't played with swmtool.  These options are available in the pkg*
commands for package management.  If they aren't in swmtool they
hopefully will be in a near term release.

: >: Solaris 2.1 is slow, i hope that newer Solaris 2.X versions fix this 
: >: problem. 
: >Are you sure you mean 2.1 and not 2.0??  Solaris 2.1 is about as fast
: >as 4.1.3 for most things, slower for some things and faster for
: >others.
: I have only a SS LC here around with Solaris 2.1 right now, and i can't 
: say that this is a fast setup. I suspect some problems with the SCSI
: driver (or the controller implementation in the LC) since SCSI activity
: will slow down the system noticably. Opening windows or tools on even a 
: SS1 with 4.1.3 and 16 MB is faster than on the LC.
: So i shouldn't say that Solaris 2.1 is slow but instead that i feel that
: the combination LC/2.1 feels slow ;-)

Hmmm...I ran it on a 16MB SLC and found performance to be about the
same the same counfiguration under 4.1.3.  Perhaps a bit slower for
some things but not really noticably slow.

: >If you halt the system and boot with "b -r" (or "boot -r" in new prom
: >mode) it will look for attached devices, load appropriate drivers and
: >configure new /devices and /dev entries for them...all automatically.
: >No need to use add_drvs or anything else.
: Thanks for the hint. Where is some documentation about this? I installed
: the End User answerbook and it only contained some not very interesting
: OW 3.0.1 help. 

I don't recall.  My guess is that "End User answerbook" is just that...
for end users, not people intending to run a system.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: root@splat.aarnet.EDU.AU (Conan the System Operator)
Subject: Re: Parity problems in dialin line
Organization: Prentice Centre, University of Queensland
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:03:08 GMT

ibarrac@kzin.fiu.edu (Carlos A. Ibarra) writes:

>I have a Sun 3/60 running 4.1.1 with a Zoom 14.4 Kbps modem attached to 
>/dev/ttya. The cable carries all the proper signals, etc. I configured the
>gettytab entry for no parity and 8 bits, and we have a user dialing in with
>an HDS X terminal with PPP. The problem is that the Sun sometimes accepts
>the dialin with the port set to seven bit even parity, leading to a garbled
>login prompt and garbage characters being echoed back to the terminal. It was
>working fine for a couple of weeks then we rebooted and it started doing this
>again.

Here is how I have my dial in set up......

-------ttytab
ttya    "/usr/etc/getty std.19200"      unknown         on
ttyd0   "/usr/etc/getty D19200"         dialup          on



-------gettytab
D19200|Fast-Dial-19200:\
        :sp#19200:nx=D9600:tc=19200-baud:ms=crtscts:tt=vt100:p8:im=Use modem to transfer to splat


You have to create a /dev/ttyd0 nod for the ttytab.

This setup seems to work fine for me. The only problem that I have is that
when you logoff, the modem does not drop carrier, you have to do it yourself.

Dave         tucker@splat.aarnet.edu.au

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: dav@gtc.com (David L. Markowitz)
Subject: Re: Sun won't fix 4.1.1 so Backup Copilot works properly
Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 00:41:45 GMT

janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:

>You may remember me complaining about Sun's Backup Copilot dump program
>...

>Our next upgrade will probably be to Solaris 2.1 (SunOS 5.1) since it seems
>that's our "only option" (now there's a new oxymoron!) if we want to use
>any of Sun's newer boxes.  Does anyone know if and when Backup Copilot will
>be available for Solaris 2.1?

Backup Copilot is *included* in 2.1!  Remember that next time anyone
gripes about Sun unbundling software!
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	David L. Markowitz
	Solaris Systems Division - Genisco Technology Corporation
	dav@gtc.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: zierke@rzdspc35.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Reinhard Zierke)
Subject: Re: NIS and mail
Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
Date:  6 Jan 93 07:00:41 GMT

dave@auspost.com.au (Dave Cole) writes:

> I changed my NIS domain name the other day and now mail on all
> machines except the NIS master is screwing up the domain name.
> 
> Output from Mail:-
> 
> /home/grunge/dave% Mail -v dave
> Subject: Hello
> Yup
> EOT
> /home/grunge/dave% Trying 192.40.24.64...  connected.
> 220 guk.auspost.com.au 5.65c/IDA-1.4.4 Sendmail is ready at Wed, 6 Jan 1993 12:31:53 +1100
> >>HELO dross.com.au
> 250 Hello dross, why do you call yourself dross.com.au?
> >>MAIL FROM:<dave>
> 250 <dave>... Sender ok
> >>RCPT TO:<dave>
> 250 <dave>... Recipient ok
> >>DATA
> 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
> >>.
> 250 Ok
> >>QUIT
> 221 guk.auspost.com.au closing connection
> 
> My NIS domain name used to be 'auspost', I changed it to be 'auspost.com.au'.
> 
> Has anyone had this problem before?  If yes, do you know how to fix it?

From the SunOS 4.1.2 /usr/lib/sendmail.subsidiary.cf:

#################################################
#
#       General configuration information

# local domain names
#
# These can now be determined from the domainname system call.
# The first component of the NIS domain name is stripped off unless    <<<<<<<<<
# it begins with a dot or a plus sign.                                 <<<<<<<<<
# If your NIS domain is not inside the domain name you would like to have
# appear in your mail headers, add a "Dm" line to define your domain name.
# The Dm value is what is used in outgoing mail.  The Cm values are
# accepted in incoming mail.  By default Cm is set from Dm, but you might
# want to have more than one Cm line to recognize more than one domain
# name on incoming mail during a transition.
# Example:
# DmCS.Podunk.EDU
# Cm cs cs.Podunk.EDU

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.unix.shell
From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
Subject: Re: KSH on Sun
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 13:11:42 GMT

mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:

>Pdksh works quite nicely on Suns.  You can find it in comp.sources.misc
>and at FTP sites.  It has some differences from the real ksh, but you
>are unlikely to notice them.

You are likely to notice the inability to alias arrow keys, a feature
of current versions of the real ksh. I moved to bash when I got on a
Sun; it was easier than hacking the pdksh sources.

dhs   spencer@panix.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
Subject: Re: Uh-oh, Solaris 2.1 is here...
Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 01:03:40 GMT

morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley) writes:

>Ok, so I get the Solaris 2.1 CD the other day, along with the AnswerBook
>CD.  Within the short time I've been "listening in" on the SUN newsgroups,
>I've read that several people seem to be balking at making the move (from
>4.1.2, etc)...

>It's my understanding that the move essentially brings us from a BSD
>flavored environment to a SVR4 one.  Is this true?  Kinda true?  Not true?
>If so, I assume that the file system will change somewhat (ie: where
>certain directories are located, etc).

Yes, the file system changes a lot WRT where stuff is located, and the names
of important system files and stuff.  If your only experience is in SunOS it
will be a pain.  If you have experience on a variety of Unix platforms it is
not a problem.

>There came with the CD only a *very* thin pamphlet about installing it.
>Needless to say I'm a little worried about botching the install.  Do any
>of you who have actually done it already have any tips/gotchas/suggestions?

The install itself is so easy I can't see how it could possibly be botched.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: .mailrc question
From: lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
Date: 11 Jan 93 14:46:21 -0500
Reply-To: lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
Organization: Harding University

Hello-

  My boss uses his IBM PC to telnet into *MY* SPARC IPC. He
qould like to set up a .mailrc file to store his mail aliases,
but is having trouble doing so.  What is the procedure to set
up mail aliases for this use? Would it be easier to store
them in a .cshrc alias ??

   Thanks for the insight-

  Greg Lindstrom
  Harding University

BTW- I tried placing a line like:

alias @smith jsmith@machine.domain.edu

in the .mailrc, but it puked when I "sourced" it. It didn't
like the "ignore" command a few lines up in .mailrc.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: r.evans@ic.ac.uk (Rob Evans)
Subject: Re: Sun 10's and their SCSI bus.
In-reply-to: r.evans@ic.ac.uk's message of 5 Jan 93 10:09:00
Organization: Imperial College Centre for Computing Services
	<R.EVANS.93Jan5100900@afs1.ic.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jan 93 17:53:40


Of course, when I say 6ft, I mean 6 metres. Sorry for the confusion.

	Robert
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pat@csoc.COM (Pat Allen)
Subject: termcap, vi, vt300
Organization: CAD Systems of Carolina
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 16:23:57 GMT

Using a DEC vt300 terminal as a console on a Sun server.  We've made a termcap
entry for the vt300 and all the commands seem to work fine except vi.  Has
anyone run across this or knows of a solution to get vi working correctly?

Pleas e-mail if you can.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: osh@cray.com (O'Shaughnessy John)
Subject: Re: TOSHIBA CD-ROM on IPX ?
Organization: Cray Research, Inc, Mendota Heights, MN
Date: 9 Jan 93 15:28:38 CST

The problem, it turns out, is that the Toshiba drive I have access to is set
up to read data in 2k chunks.  Suns expect 512 byte chunks.  Newer Toshiba
drives can be modified by cutting traces on the circuit board to switch it
to use 512 byte chunks, but my drive is too old.  I received some information
on forcing a SCSI command to switch the drive to use 512 byte chunks, but
haven't tried that yet.  Also, that wouldn't work for booting from CD.

As far as the media, I was attempting to mount a Sun Catalyst CD.  I finally
got frustrated and ran upstairs to borrow a Sun CD-ROM drive from a Sun
administrator upstairs.

John
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From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NIS passwd != yppasswd
Date: 5 Jan 1993 00:17:53 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

Hello all. I have a question I've been meaning to ask a looooong time 
ago but never got around to. But as a New Year Resolution, I've told 
myself I better get this thing figure out so that we can do things 
correctly.... ;) 

We are still using SunOS 4.1.1. And we are using NIS such that we have a 
main Sun server with all the account info, and a number of other Sparcs 
acting as clients. ie. when a users logs into any of our Suns, they
have the same account and same passwd on all machines (in fact, same
home directory because we are also file serving but that's another
story). My question is, now that we are using NIS, we no longer have
yppasswd for changing passwords. What we do now is have out users
log into the mainserver, run passwd to change the password on there.
Then I'll su and "cd /var/yp;make". This will then get broadcast to
all the other clients.

It was so easy when we had yppasswd. :) But there must still be a 
better way to do this. Can anyone give me any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.

Thomas.
From: cudcv@csv.warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: rdist on Sun IPX
Date: 8 Jan 1993 12:28:40 -0000
Organization: Computing Services, University of Warwick, UK
NNTP-Posting-Host: sprocket.csv.warwick.ac.uk

In article <1993Jan6.234627.10028@siemens.com> aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
writes: 
>>How do things perform with a password file of 8000+ lines
>
>!NIS does not imply linear searches.  There are other hashed password schemes
>around.

Sorry, I assumed we were talking standard Sun software, but using rdist
instead of NIS.

Rob
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