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From: axs@cs.bham.ac.uk (Aaron Sloman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: compatibility between 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 on SPARCserver 672mp
Date: 29 Sep 92 22:09:44 GMT
Organization: School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

Our 672 with two processors has just been upgraded from 4.1.2 to
4.1.3.

Apart from the fact that for some reason the openwindows utilities
are no longer there, everything seems to work OK except for one
rather complicated system - poplog, which has interfaces to X
and various other facilities.

The core executable image works fine on 4.1.3 on uniprocessor and
the 2 processor system.

The extension that has X stuff compiled in crashes as soon as I try
to start it up on the 672, but not on other machines running 4.1.3.

This suggests to me that libraries on the 672 have changed, but
not on the other machines. I don't know whether the problem is
specific to X libraries or Sun libraries. The error message I get
is not very informative, and is slighly different when I try to start
up different extensions to the system.

Does anyone know what exactly is supposed to be different on the
MP version from the single processor version, under 4.1.3.

Have we now lost binary compatility between single and dual processor
Sun Software!

Aaron
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From: lra00@pecan.spa.amdahl.com (Larry R. Ader)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.openlook
Subject: Using NumLock on Sun type 4 keyboards
Date: 30 Sep 92 19:38:30 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation  Sunnyvale, CA


Hopefully this is a FAQ that someone already has the answer to...

I have a Sun ELC that I often use with NON-Openwindows window managers
(e.g. mwm, twm, etc.).  The keyboard I have is a type 4 Sun keyboard.
When I use OpenWindows, the NumLock key works properly -- that is, the
numlock LED lights up and the "keypad" keys now work as numbers when I
press them (while using a "cmdtool" application).

My question is:  How can I get the same "NumLock" behavior using mwm
(for example) and xterm applications??


Thanks for your help,

Larry Ader


P.S.: (slightly) related topic:  is there some way that I can access the
      LEDs on the keyboard in the way I do with Xterminals
      (i.e. "xset led 3") ?

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From: mnejat@telesoft.com (Mehregan Nejat @lone)
Subject: Should nice be used on MP's
Organization: TeleSoft, San Diego, CA, USA
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 17:52:43 GMT

Does nicing a process on a MP machine (4/690 running 4.1.2 SunOS)
cause more problem.  I am refering to lowering the priority of a
process not increasing it.

Thanks in advance,

--Mehregan Nejat

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From: zook@sweetpea.jsc.nasa.gov (Craig A Zook 283-4206)
Subject: Changing the timezone
Organization: McDonnell Douglas Space Systems Company
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 17:25:34 GMT

I have a Sun Sparc that was initially configured to be in the
Eastern Daylight Time (ETD).  Unfortunally I am in the Central
Daylight Time (CDT) zone.  Could anyone tell me how to change the
timezone info without reloading the OS.  The man pages are not 
very helpful.  They mention something about /usr/lib/zoneinfo/localtime.
Unfortuantly this is a binary file.

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From: izo30@ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Has anyone used a Fujitsu M2652P IPI disk?
Keywords: format.dat Fujitsu IPI disk
Date: 29 Sep 92 21:00:00 GMT
Reply-To: izo30@juts.ccc.amdahl.com (Ian O'Brien)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

We have a Fujitsu M2652P disk - IPI interface and with a capacity of2Gb,
unformatted. I am having a problem though, I keep getting messages like
the following on the console:

	id002f: block 80 (1848080 abs): read: Response Extent.
	id002f: block 80 (1848080 abs): read: Machine Exception.
		Physical Interface Check. 
	id002f: block 80 (1848080 abs): read: Response Extent. 
	id002e: block 809344 (2657344 abs): write: Response Extent.
	id002f: block 809344 (2657344 abs): write: Machine Exception.
		Physical Interface Check. 
	id002f: block 809344 (2657344 abs): write: Response Extent. 
	id002f: block 64 (1848064 abs): write: Conditional Success.
		Motion Retry Performed. 
	id002f: block 350736 (2198736 abs): read: Response Extent.
	id002f: block 350736 (2198736 abs): read: Machine Exception.
		Physical Interface Check. 
	id002f: block 350736 (2198736 abs): read: Response Extent. 

Originally I ran a surface analysis on this disk using the format program
from SunOS 4.1.1 - after being told there are problems with disks larger
than 1.3Gb I re-ran the analysis using 4.1.2's format. I still do get these
errors on the system's console, though far less than before.

My sun support guy says that these messages mean that the disk had to retry
a read above a certain number of times before it succeeded and that it is
usually the sign of a bad disk. I notice that the block number is *always*
evenly divisible by 16 and this makes me suspect that something subtle
might be wrong with the setup of the disk.

Here is my format.dat entry:
	disk_type = "Fujitsu-M2652P" \
	    : ctlr = "ISP-80" \
	    : ncyl = 1889 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1891 : nhead = 20 : nsect = 84 \
	    : rpm = 5400 : bpt = 52864 : skew = 0 : precomp = 0

So a couple of questions:

(1)	Does anyone have one of these disks working successfully in a
	4/490? I'd like to have details of your configuration,
	especially if you noticed and overcame the problem described.

(2)	We are using SunOS 4.1.1 on this machine - is the 1.3 Gb limit
	affecting the IPI disks? I understood that the problems were
	within the SCSI disk device driver.

Any other points you think relevant will be appreciated,

Thanks, in advance

Ian
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From: jh@cadre.com (Joe Hartley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Size of swap file
Date: 6 Oct 92 18:33:27 GMT
Article-I.D.: fripp.1992Oct6.183327.2025
Reply-To: jh@cadre.com
Organization: Cadre Technologies, Inc.

>What is the general guideline for the size of a swap file?  I have two
>SPARC-2's running 4.1.1 and I just upgraded from 16M of RAM to 64M.  I
>have 16M swap files right now....do I need to increase them or not?
>And should they be increased to 64M or somewhere between 16M and 64M?

I've always set up my systems so that my swap space >= twice my RAM.  I've
heard that you can go as low as swap = RAM, but that causes some bottlenecks.

Rumor has it that if your swap < RAM, then you won't utilize anything over
the amount of swap you've allocated, but I can't verify that.

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From: ck@VOA.GOV (Chris Kern)
Subject: Solaris 2.0 Pathfinders (Was: Problems with NIS clients ... )
Keywords: nis+, solaris 2.x, disaster
Organization: Voice of America
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1992 02:20:42 GMT

In article <Bv5A6F.M2D@bit.com> chris@bit.com (Chris Kennedy) writes:
>
>BTW, if anyone would like a description of the joys of installing and/or
>living with Solaris, drop a line :-).

Those of us who have elected to wait and cling timidly to 4.1.[123]
salute you.  (No smiley; I mean it.)

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: ypbind -ypsetme (was Re: Problem with NIS (ypbind) with subnetted in)
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1992 16:26:33 GMT

barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:

>In article <1992Oct2.200812.4343@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
>>If you must use ypset, start ypbind with the "-ypsetme" option instead. 

>I agree.

>>But authentication is based on IP addresses, which can be spoofed.

>I've long wondered why "ypbind -ypsetme" doesn't use a Unix domain socket,
>so that it wouldn't be possible for another machine to connect to it and
>attempt such a spoof.  It could also put the socket file in a directory
>accessible only to root, to ensure that only root can issue such ypsets.

Probaly because RPC has no provisions for Unix domain sockets.
Maybe it should allow TCP connections only, aren't those much harder
to spoof if the intended target has the same IP address as the spoofer?

Casper
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ctan@solomon.technet.sg (Tan Chee Weei)
Subject: Q: Can 4.1.1 mount Solaris2 created partitions?
Organization: National University of Singapore
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 11:02:40 GMT


I have a local disk set up to boot Solaris 2. Occasionally, the same machine
is booted up as a 4.1.1 diskless client. I was trying to mount a partition
from the local disk while running 4.1.1. However, mount complains that
there is no such device for the local partition. Format, fsck and dkinfo 
seem to be able to recognise and access the local device/partitions.

Is it a known fact that Solaris 2 created file systems may not be mounted
by 4.1.1 ? If so, is there a solution that would allow me to mount such
a partition? I think Solaris 2 can mount and use 4.1.1 created file systems,
even though they are not identical. I could newfs the particular partition
using 4.1.1. However, I would prefer not to. Also, if I do change it to
a 4.2 type file system, will there be any problems when using it under
Solaris 2? Any performance degradation? Thanks for any help.

CW
From: iwestman@waltari.helsinki.fi (Ilkka Westman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Fujitsu's new 2GB M2654SA disk
Date: 29 Sep 92 12:48:38 GMT
Organization: Department of General Linguistics, Univ. of Helsinki. Finland


Fujitsu's new 2 GB disk M2654SA didn't work with Sun SPARCstation2
(with SunOS 4.1.2).

I formatted the disk and had no problems. I got 4014054 512 byte
blocks. In the entry of the format.dat file there were ncyl=2154,
acyl=2, pcyl=2160, nhead=21, nsect=85.

I built only c partition with 3844890 blocks (the whole disk in one
partition). I made a file system for c and got no errors. I checked
the file system with fsck and found no errors.

I copied about 700 MB to the new file system. I checked the file
system with fsck and found no errors.

I tested the disk by some simultaneous ls -lR commands and got this
error message in the messages log:

Sep 15 23:30:28 utrio vmunix: esp0: Current command timeout for Target 0 Lun 0
Sep 15 23:30:28 utrio vmunix: esp0:     State=UNKNOWN (0x1a), Last
State=RESEL (0x1b)
Sep 15 23:30:28 utrio vmunix: esp0:     Cmd dump for Target 0 Lun 0:
Sep 15 23:30:28 utrio vmunix: esp0:     cdb=[ 0x28 0x0 0x0 0x36 0xb8
0x8a 0x0 0x0 0x2 0x0 ]

When I checked the file system with fsck I got a lot of errors. It
seemed to me that the whole file system was corrupted.

Has anybody had a same problem?

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From: mdpc@crash.cts.com (Mike Parker)
Subject: Automounter - help needed for heirarchial mounting situation
Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
Distribution: usa
Date: 28 Sep 92 19:48:36 PDT

I have recently run into an interesting situation and need some guidance
on how to correct the problem.  I have read the man pages on the automounter
but they are not very enlightening on this situation.

Ok, on the server system, there are two different EXPORTED partitions:

	/toplevel

	/toplevel/build/other

The new other partitino was moved on the server due to the usual space
considerations. 

I am having difficulties on the client machines in getting the automounter
to mount this type of structure.  The message I get on the system log is
something to the effect of "heirarchial mount".  The use of /toplevel
on the clients seems to work, but /toplevel/build/other is not mounted at
all.

I have a root map for the automounter, giving the information such as:

	...
	/toplevel		server:/toplevel
	/toplevel/build/other	server:/toplevel/build/other
	...

So any suggestions as to what I should be doing or how to format the
map information in such a case?

Thanks for your help.

Mike

PS:	I am running without a lot of documentation here as it is a situation
	I inherited.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rodney@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Rodney Campbell)
Subject: Re: Who cleanup /tmp
Organization: AOTC - CSSC
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:32:16 GMT

jack@solucor.uucp (Jacques Gelinas) writes:

>I have noticed that temporary files accumulated in /tmp. Some
>does not seem to cleanup. Files produce by cmdtool just seems to
>grow forever.

>I was wondering if there was some daemons who do the cleanup in /tmp
>once in a while, deleting old files.

>I am the only user of the workstation, so I just never log out, never
>exit from OpenWindows.

>I am running Sunos 4.1.2 with OpenWindows 2 on a Sparc ELC.

>I believe there is some process who do that once in while (not in crontab
>, I have check), because I do the cleanup only when I need more space
>in /tmp. Most of the time, I don't check, and I am running this workstation
>for a year.

/tmp is usually only cleaned up by a reboot - in /etc/rc:

                                echo clearing /tmp
(cd /tmp; rm -f - *)

		  						Rodney...
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From: warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Xterms on Suns
Date: 6 Oct 92 04:02:39 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: California State University, Chico
NNTP-Posting-Host: amber.ecst.csuchico.edu

In article <GUENTHER.92Oct2201415@amcl7.stolaf.edu> Philip A Guenther writes:

-->	...  Even better is some form of authorization, ranging from
-->	MIT-MAGIC_COOKIE (in which keys are passed openly across the net)
-->	to SUN-DES (on Sun's (of course), which uses Sun's publickey
-->	functions to pass authorization).  ...

  Hmm.  It's obvious how to use xauth on various computers, but *how* do
you set that up for X terminals?  I haven't managed to do that yet so have
just refrained from doing anything dangerous on X terminals.  If you know
how, do tell.  I haven't seen anything useful anywhere so far.

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behind one at just the point when one thought one had disposed of one's enemies.
From: brian@panix.com (Brian Childs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SunOS Security Hole?
Keywords: security
Date: 27 Sep 92 18:33:06 GMT
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC

I think I have found a security hole in either SunOS or PC-NFS,
here's whats happening:

1. I am evaluating PC-Xview (a package which makes a pc emulate an
   X-server).  
2. I have configured PC-Xview to access my sun using RSH
   as user 'brian'
3. I logon to the pc as user 'rd'

not only does PC-Xview magically open a window onto account 'brian' without
any type of authorization, but it will do the same for every account on the
machine.

None of the accounts have a .rhosts file, and hosts.equiv has only only line
containing a '+' in it (which allows users of the SAME account password free
access to any other machine on our lan).

as a test, I logged directly onto our sun server as 'rd' and tried 
'rsh workstation -l brian' and got a permission denied!

my question is why is it that PC-Xview can do it, and SunOS can't

by the way NCD (the makers of PC-Xview) and SUN are too busy pointing
the finger at each other to be any help.

ANY Ideas would be appreciated.

	Brian
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From: jwa@yog-sothoth.dcrt.nih.gov (James W. Adams)
Subject: Re: ID'ing Sun models remotely
Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD
Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1992 21:31:57 GMT

In article <1992Oct1.223049.2216@ukw.uucp> lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph) writes:
>mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec) writes:
>
>>Is there a way to identify the various Sun models within an architecture.
>>For example, I want to be able to tell the difference between and SLC
>>(4/20) and an ELC (4/25) without having to get up and walk over to the
>>machine... Is there a way to do this?
>
>Run this on the machine you want to identify:
>
>	grep ` hostid | sed -e 's/^\(..\).*/\1/' ` /usr/include/mon/idprom.h
>
>On my IPX, it gives me this:
>
>	#define IDM_SUN4C_50            0x57    /* It might be slower */
>[...]
>Note that there are no entries for:
>
>Sun-3/60 (or is *that* the M25?), Sun-368i, SS 10
>
>I can explain the last: this is SunOS 4.1.2, not 4.1.3 :-)
>Anybody with a 3/60 or a Toadrunner reading this? What's
>your hostid like?

Sun 3/60, SunOS 4.1.1:

#define IDM_SUN3_F              0x17    /* Sun3F CPU    */

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From: volker@uni-paderborn.de (Volker Siebelink)
Subject: Re: automounter - help needed in hierarchial mount situation
Reply-To: volker@nvs-01.uni-paderborn.de
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 06:30:58 GMT

Mike Parker (mdpc@crash.cts.com) wrote:
: I have recently run into an interesting situation and need some guidance
: on how to correct the problem.  I have read the man pages on the automounter
: but they are not very enlightening on this situation.
: 
: Ok, on the server system, there are two different EXPORTED partitions:
: 
: 	/toplevel
: 
: 	/toplevel/build/other
: 
: The new other partitino was moved on the server due to the usual space
: considerations. 
: 
: I am having difficulties on the client machines in getting the automounter
: to mount this type of structure.  The message I get on the system log is
: something to the effect of "heirarchial mount".  The use of /toplevel
: on the clients seems to work, but /toplevel/build/other is not mounted at
: all.
: 
: I have a root map for the automounter, giving the information such as:
: 
: 	...
: 	/toplevel		server:/toplevel
: 	/toplevel/build/other	server:/toplevel/build/other
: 	...
: 
: So any suggestions as to what I should be doing or how to format the
: map information in such a case?

I have in /etc/auto.homes the following entry:

nvs-01  -rw,intr,suid           \
                        /       &:/export/home \
                        /dos    &:/export/home/dos


This solution does the work correctly.

: 
: Thanks for your help.
: 
: Mike
: 
: PS:	I am running without a lot of documentation here as it is a situation
: 	I inherited.
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From: wolski@netcom.com (Don Wolski)
Subject: HP LJ III w/ JetDirect:  How to make it work w/ NeWSprint?
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 92 07:32:01 GMT
Organization: Humboldt State Univ (Arcata, CA) Natural Resources & Sciences
Keywords: LaserJet, JetDirect, NeWSprint

Jet Direct is an Ethernet card that goes into a Laser Jet printer
allowing the printer to be directly connected to the network.

The installation software for both JetDirect and NeWSprint each insist
on creating their own printcap files and spool directories, but
neither allows for the possibility of the other.

It is not obvious how to merge the two, e.g. the :lp=...: printcap
capability spec created by the Jet Direct installation points to a
zero length file in the spool directory.  This actually works if I
specify the unmodified JetDirect printcap entry, but if I specify the
otherwise unmodified NeWSprint entry with the same :lp=...: capability
spec. I get no error messages and no print-out.

Has anyone successfully combined these two features?

Thanks,

Don Wolski	voice:	707-826-3536	Instructional Computing, NRS building
Fax (include voice #):	707-826-5555	College of Natural Resources & Sciences
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Date: Wednesday, 30 Sep 1992 12:22:45 MEZ
From: Frank Wuebbeling <WUEBBEL@DMSWWU1A.UNI-MUENSTER.DE>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: audit logs everything when 'on' is used

We use SUN OS 4.1.2 on several SUN-stations. auditd runs on one of these
with the standard audit flags. The output is most useful, but:

Whenever I use 'on' to logon to the machine that runs audit, *every*
action (includes opening and reading of libraries etc) is logged
onto the auditfiles, which rapidly fills up our filesystems. Using
rsh, only the login/logout-procedure will be logged.

May this be a misconfiguration or a bug in 4.1.2?

"Dipl.-Math. Frank Wuebbeling"

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