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From: einhorn_d@apsicc.aps.edu (E. Drew Einhorn)
Subject: rmfree map overflow??
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 07:02:00 GMT
Organization: Albuquerque Public Schools - Career Enrichment Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41    

Hello I am trying to resolve problems on Dell Unix SVR4
platform I suspect but am not certain that something in
the Dell Unix is misconfigured.  While many of my
questions and speculations are appropriate for this 
newsgroup I also suspect that some of them would be
more appropriate in other newsgroups.

I am getting a large number of messages of the form:

WARNING: rmfree map overflow D01B475C. lost 1 items at -19yxxx

where y is 0, 1, or 2 and x is a decimal digit.  These messages
appear to be written to /dev/console not stdout or stderr.  I
don't see them when running under X but when I exit X, I find
the last couple that haven't rolled off the top of the screen.

Under Dell Unix SVR4 error messages don't accumulate in
/usr/adm/log.  Is there a way to reconfigure so the
system error messages are logged.

At the time the errors occure I am running a script to apply
patch "2" to Oracle V6.0.34.2.1  Oracle is attempting to 
replace files in large .a archives.  After getting many of these
errors the system eventually crashes and I have to hit the
power switch to get it restarted.  When I try again after the
reboot and fsck's the archives are corrupted.  Will pursue
this with Oracle and Dell Tech support in the morning.  Hope
somebody recognizes this error message and I don't have to
resort to a horrendous find command looking for the string
"rmfree map overflow"
From: ori@ferrari.dsp.hellnet.org (Ori Chalak)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: how do other people deal with new man pages?
Date: 15 Nov 92 14:57:46 GMT


My suggestion is as follows:

1. I have several global disks in the system, on which I locate 
   software instatllations.
   Each software instatllation has a root directory, which is looked
   from the outside as if it was located under "/usr".
   This is achieved using "auto.direct" yellow-pages map.

   An auto.direct entry example:

   /usr/applic		server:/partition/appilc

2. Under the software instatllation directory (e.g. /usr/applic), there are
   several sub-directoties:

   bin  lib  man  ...

   They are NOT spread in the  file system. Instead, they might be pointed by
   environment variables.

   For this I create a C-SHELL command file, e.g. /usr/applic/.cshrc-export
   which contains all the necessary redirections

   example:

   # Begin of /usr/applic/.cshrc-export

   set root = "/usr/appic"

   set path = ($path ${root}/bin)

   if (! $?LD_LIBRARY_PATH) then
       setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${root}/lib
   else
       setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}:${root}/lib
   endif

   if (! $?MANPATH) then
       setenv MANPATH ${root}/lib
   else
       setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:${root}/lib
   endif

   .
   .
   .

   setenv APPLIC_KEYWORD1 value1  # Setting aoording to "applic" requirements
   setenv APPLIC_KEYWORD2 value2  # Setting aoording to "applic" requirements
   .
   .
   .

   unset root

   # End of /usr/applic/.cshrc-export



3. I have one global C-SHELL command-file in the system which sources all the ".cshrc-export"

   example:

   # Begin of /usr/global/.cshrc-export

   source /usr/applic1/.cshrc-export
   source /usr/applic2/.cshrc-export
   .
   .
   .

   # End of /usr/global/.cshrc-export


4. Each user sources the global .cshrc-export in his/her ".cshrc" file or in his/her
   ".login" file.

   Example:

   # Begin of ~/.login
   .
   .
   .
   source /usr/global/.cshrc-export
   .
   .
   .

   # End of ~/.login



This solution achieves the following goals:

1. Auto mounter advantages

   - Easy to change the disk and host installation
   - Creating mount-points just as much as necessary

2. Easy software update, since the installation is located in one place,
   and is similiar to the original tape.

3. The users are not required to be aware of the fact a new installation or
   version had arrived. they will be "tuned" to it as they login.



			Good Luck

					Ori

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From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: problems with a find command
Date: 23 Nov 92 17:56:01 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett) writes:
: I put a find command in my crontab file which I hoped would compress
: files larger than 10 megabytes which haven't been accessed for 14
: days. But here's what I got in my mail about it:
: Your "cron" job
: 
: /usr/bin/find / -size 1000000c -atime +14 -exec compress {}\;
: ...
: It looks like a good command to me! Can anyone help?

You need a space between {} and \;. Do:

/usr/bin/find / -size 10000000c -atime +14 -exec compress {} \;

or

/usr/bin/find / -size 10000000c -atime +14 -print | xargs compress

Also make sure that the size is 10mb, not 1mb as you have it. You'd
be in for a big surprise.

Also, I'm not sure if running it recursive from the root directory
is a good idea. You might just accidentally compress some systems
file. In fact, it might not be a good idea doing anything of the
sort.

An alternative would be to print out user files with the above
specifications, then ask the user to either remove it or compress
it if possible. Auto compress might just zap a poor user's datafile.
(say, if he has something which updates the datafile monthly, and
has been doing so for the last five years...) You be the judge.


-Ade.
-- 
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CompuServe: 74160,3404
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: igb@fulcrum.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
Subject: Managing Host Databases
Organization: Fulcrum Communications
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 11:37:57 GMT


Like most people, I need to manage /etc/hosts, DNS zone and reverse
files, bootparams, exports and all those good files.  Does anyone have
the software to take a single datafile and produce some or all of the
other things?  I've started writing a lot of perl, but I'd be keen to
help someone else develop their code instead.

I've got some code to parse things like this, but it's going to be a
long haul to make it do what I want...

$host = 'kether.fulcrum.co.uk';
$ip = '192.65.220.1';
@aliases = ('loghost' 'newshost' 'ftp');
@interfaces = ('146.101.128.90 kether-gw.fulcrum.co.uk', \
	       '192.150.140.2 kether-site.fulcrum.co.uk');

$host = 'doctor-seuss.fulcrum.co.uk';
$ip = '192.65.220.7';
@interfaces = ('192.131.79.1 doctor-seuss-nfs.fulcrum.co.uk');


ian
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: "Chris Martin" <wk04331@psilink.com>
Subject: Re: RAM size
Reply-To: chris.martin@amd.com
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 01:52:21 GMT
X-Mailer: PSILink-DOS (3.3)

>DATE:   Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:05:03 GMT
>FROM:   Thad Phetteplace x4461 <tdphette@mke.ab.com>
>
>menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin) writes:
>: 
>: How can I know the RAM size of my Sun and HP workstation ?
>: (not reboot)
>: Thanks.
>: 
>: -Jane
>
>On a Sun you can run the dmesg command and print the messages from the
>last boot. The RAM size should be in there.  Pipe it to 'grep mem' to
>filter out other messages...
>
>dmesg | grep mem
>
>That should do it.  I don't know if you can do the same on an HP.


There is a script (called MEMSIZE?? or something like that) that is 
shipped with the compress distribution which does a good job of 
determining physical memory on a variety of machines.  (dmesg only works 
if the machine has been rebooted "recently".).

--Chris
  chris@amd.com
From: hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: 'nofiles' parameter in HP-UX 8.02
Date: 17 Nov 92 15:01:18 GMT
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas

Can anyone tell me where I can find a 'nofiles' parameter embedded somewhere
in the HP-UX operating system?  I cannot find it anywhere under the
'kernel configuration' under sam and cannot seem to find it in any other
system configuration files.  Thanks for any ideas.

--
Horace
horace.bowser@amd.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: adne@ddb.be.statoil.no (Adne Hestenes)
Subject: Re: Printing from SNA to TCP/IP hosted printer
Reply-To: adne@ddb.be.statoil.no (Adne Hestenes)
Organization: Statoil
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:22:22 GMT

In article <1992Nov17.210854.10944@dvorak.amd.com>,
hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser) writes:
> Can someone tell me what options I have available, if any, that will
> allow me to print from an SNA hosted IBM system to a TCP/IP hosted UNIX
> printer?
> 
> Are there any packages available on the IBM that will support this (
> sorta like wollongong for the VAX i guess).
> 
> As usual with this group, all ideas welcomed!!!
> 
> --
> Horace
> horace.bowser@amd.com
> 

Interlink has a BSD printerdaemon for IBM/MVS,
they also have TCP/IP, NFS and other features.

adne

adne@statoil.no
From: djb@advtech.uswest.com (Dave Brooks)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: NIS works but DNS doesn't on my SPARC
Keywords: printer postscript accounting
Date: 20 Nov 92 18:00:40 GMT
Organization: U S WEST Advanced Technologies

In article <1992Nov19.202648.2886@midway.uchicago.edu>, epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin) writes:

|> A second problem I have is that I can ftp out of my system but I cannot
|> ftp into my system from another host.  I get a 'user access denied' after
|> I (or anyone else) types in the correct login.

Don't know too much about your first problem (DNS), but if your shell is ksh
you need an /etc/shells on the host you are trying to ftp to that has the 
location of where ksh is (/usr/bin/ksh or whatever).  ftp can find sh and
csh but doesn't even attempt to look for ksh.

See SunSolve Symptoms and Resolutions DB ID #2088 for full details.

If you are not using ksh, then I don't know...

Dave Brooks
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: tyvng@cs.sfu.ca (Vincent Ng)
Subject: Help in setting up DNS in Sun machines
Keywords: DSN, domain
Organization: CSS, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:16:43 GMT


I need help on how to setup DNS. I have three different domains in the same
network. One of them has just been connected to the Internet. Can I set up
the DNS such that I can used the connected domain as a relay for the others ? I
have read the chapter in the Sun Adminstration Manual, but found it hard to
understand. Can anyone help ? BTW they are all Sun machines running 4.1.1.


Here is our network setup:


	--------------------------------------------------------------
		|					|					|
		|					|					|
		|					|					|

		domain A			domain B			domain C -----------|
		server A.1			server B.1			server C.1			|
																	|
																	|
																Internet
												(remote name server knows
												 C but not A and B)


	-thanks in advance
	Vincent Ng
	Simon Fraser University
From: hennie@datatek.csir.co.za (Hennie Rautenbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Printing from WAN to PC's printer on Ethernet LAN.
Date: 17 Nov 92 06:59:46 GMT
Article-I.D.: datatek.hennie.25.0
Organization: CSIR Information Services
NNTP-Posting-Host: valiant.csir.co.za

Hi

My apologies if this has been covered a 100 Times before.

I need to print from a UNIX host on one network to a printer attached to a 
DOS PC on another ethernet network. There is a UNIX host on the same network
as the PC, so I can define a remote queue on the first machine and a queue on
the second one. I can't use "CHARON" because there is no Novell Fileserver
on the network. I'd hate to FTP to the PC and dump the file to "LPT1". Is
there any other simple way doing this ? Even using a dedicated DOS print-
server on the second network, with some print-server software ?

Please mail me your reply directly.

All answers will be highly appreciated.

Hennie Rautenbach
UN*X System Administrator CSIR Pretoria South Africa
E-Mail hennie@nuustak.csir.co.za
Voice  +2712 841-4222
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: bgarrett@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil (Brian S. Garrett)
Subject: Re: Question on finger
Organization: Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 23:05:38 GMT


In article <1992Nov20.175846.17994@eng.ufl.edu>, eric@joker.mil.ufl.edu (Eric M. Schwartz) writes:
> I am having a problem with the finger command when used from a remote machine
> to my machine.  If on a remote machine and a finger to my machine is attempted,
> the result is just my machine address.  For example:
> 
> > finger eric@mil.ufl.edu
> 
> results in the following
> 
> > [mil.ufl.edu]
> >
> My /etc/passwd seems to be alright.  I don't know if this is relevant, but
> my machine is a Silicon Graphics 4D/20 with a System V Release 3.2 operating
> system.
> 

     fingerd is the server  for  the  RFC  742  Name/Finger  protocol.   It
     provides a network interface to finger(1), which gives a status report
     of users currently logged in on the system or a detailed report  about
     a  specific  user.   The  Internet  daemon  executes  fingerd  when it
     receives a service request at the port listed  in  the  services  data
     base   for  ``finger''  using  ``tcp''  protocol;  see  inetd(1m)  and
     services(4).

Check your /etc/inetd.conf  as well as your /etc/services file.


Brian S. Garrett
bgarrett@hp8c.nrl.navy.mil


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 unless one has plenty of work to do."
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From: dold@mitisft.Convergent.COM (Clarence Dold)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Reliable backup software
Date: 15 Nov 92 21:21:30 GMT
Organization: Unisys Unix Systems Group, San Jose, CA

From article <1992Nov13.200327.6049@panix.com>, by dans@panix.com (Dan Simoes):

> 	Recently there have been a few articles in the *ix magazines about
> backup software.  Basically they focused on the fact that you never really 
> know your data is safe unless you do a restore of that data.

There was a comment about LoneTar being junk.  There are three very closely
related companies, LoneStar, Cactus International, and UniTrends.  They
offer almost identical products except that UniTrends offers CTar, rather
than LoneTar.  CTar offers a "ctar -t" option, just like tar -t, and ctar
-T, where the UpperCase causes a true compare.  After a full backup, the -T
option tells me that /etc/utmp is a different size, and that /etc/wtmp
failed to compare (or vice versa).
I might be wrong, but I trust that the backup has completed successfully,
and that all of my data matches.
tar -t, or cpio -it is better than nothing, but it doesn't guarantee a good
backup, just a readable tape.

-- 
---
Clarence A Dold - dold@tsmiti.Convergent.COM
               ...pyramid!ctnews!tsmiti!dold
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: wgj@.uark.edu (William Johnston)
Subject: NIS?
Keywords: NIS help
Reply-To: wgj@.uark.edu
Organization: University of Arkansas
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 19:29:30 GMT

All right, I give up.
I have a mixture of Sun's, DEC's, Oki's, and CDC's.
The Suns and DEC's run BSD variants.
The Oki's run V4.
The CDC's run V3.

        I can get NIS to run just fine on the Sun's and DEC's.  The problem is with the machines with SysV.  I am rather new to SysV so there is probably something I am overlooking. 
        The NIS problem I am having is that the yp commands all refuse to communicate with the ypbind process.  I feel that possibly ypbind is not binding with a server and is hanging. This happens even when the master server is the machine itself (see the example).

Example:

        This was done on a CDC 


# cd /etc/yp
# ls
Makefile  binding   updaters
# domainname cast2
# /usr/etc/yp/ypinit -m

    [   ypinit startup   ]

# ls
Makefile        ethers.time     netid.time      publickey.time
aliases.time    group.time      networks.time   rpc.time
binding         hosts.time      passwd.time     services.time
cast2           netgroup.time   protocols.time  updaters
# ypbind
# ypwhich
Domain cast2 not bound.
# ypcat hosts
ypcat:  can't bind to yp server for domain cast2.  Reason:  can't communicate with ypbind.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Bill Johnston




Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: troutman@athena.mit.edu (Joseph G Whelan III)
Subject: Re: How to echo " character in a csh script???
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 16:27:36 GMT

You wanted to know how to echo the " character in a shell script:

If you want to echo "hello" try this;

echo -n '"'
echo -n hello
echo '"'

Kinda obvious if you really think about it.


-troutman
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: cons@mercury.cern.ch (Lionel Cons)
Subject: Re: RAM size
Organization: CERN, European Research Center for Particle Physics
	<1992Nov19.191956.2748@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 08:59:18 GMT

>>>>> On Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:19:56 GMT, karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson) said:

In article <1992Nov19.140503.13218@tinman.mke.ab.com>, tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461) writes:

> |> menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin) writes: 
> |> : 
> |> : How can I know the RAM size of my Sun and HP workstation ?  
> |> : (not reboot) 
> |> : Thanks.  
> |> : 
> |> : -Jane 
> |> 
> |> On a Sun you can run the dmesg command and print the messages from the 
> |> last boot. The RAM size should be in there.  Pipe it to 'grep mem' to 
> |> filter out other messages...  
> |> 
> |> dmesg | grep mem 
> |> 
> |> That should do it.  I don't know if you can do the same on an HP.  
> |>
> 
> Dmesg also works on an HP, but you have to be super-user.  Also, on
> a Sun you can use devinfo(8).  Here's a script somebody posted a
> while ago:
>  ...
>

Here is the script I use on an HP (don't have to be run by root):

#!/bin/sh

tmp=/tmp/tmp.$$
cat << _EOF_ >$tmp.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/pstat.h>
main() {
   struct pst_static pstatic;
   union pstun pst;
   pst.pst_static = &pstatic;
   if (pstat(PSTAT_STATIC, pst, sizeof(pstatic), 0, 0) < 0)
      printf("unknown\n");
   else
      printf("%d\n", pstatic.physical_memory * pstatic.page_size/1024/1024);
}
_EOF_
cc -o $tmp $tmp.c
memory=`$tmp`
rm -f $tmp $tmp.c
echo "$memory MB"
--

Lionel Cons

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: longleye@aztec.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Longley)
Subject: Re: X-Windows Display Utility
Reply-To: longleye@aztec.Berkeley.EDU (Edward Longley)
Organization: Motorola Ltd., European Cellular Infrastructure Division
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 13:14:33 GMT

I use a program called xv - written by John Bradley. It allows me to
display gif images etc.

Regards,                                       -----        /
        Ed                                    /            /
                                             /____   _____/
Edward Longley                              /       /    /
Motorola Cellular Infrastructure Division  /____   /____/
Swindon. England.
Tel. : 0793 545303
Mail : longleye@aztec.swindon.rtsg.mot.com

Weinberg's Second Law:
        If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
        then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy
        civilization.

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: david@marie.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach)
Subject: Re: Request: C-Code for SUDO
Organization: UGA Statistics Department
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 22:08:35 GMT

And then in <FP9SB72T@cc.swarthmore.edu>, eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) said...
% I am interested in compiling sudo for use on our NeXTStation, running
% NeXTStep 3.0, first of all does anyone know if it will work on the NeXT
No idea if it'll work...  Is the next a BSD-type machine?

% in this configuration and second of all, does anyone have the code for
% sudo or do I have to buy the book which I saw the code for it in?
You can get the code from boulder.colorado.edu:/sa-book/sa-book.tar.Z 
by anonymous ftp; enjoy :-)

% 
% Thanks in advance, mail to me or the group, which ever you think is most
% appropriate.
% 
% -Erik
% eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu	NeXTMail accepted.



:-D
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From: menjan@cs.umb.edu (Men-Jan Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: RAM size
Date: 18 Nov 92 03:10:15 GMT
Article-I.D.: ra.MENJAN.92Nov17221015
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston


How can I know the RAM size of my Sun and HP workstation ?
(not reboot)
Thanks.

-Jane
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: yar@cs.su.oz.au (Ray Loyzaga)
Subject: Re: Advice on Large UNIX installations please
Reply-To: yar@cluster.cs.su.oz.au (Ray Loyzaga)
Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 23:10:15 GMT
Keywords: Resource Quotas

In article <1992Nov17.154512.21468@ccsun.strath.ac.uk> craa27@ccsun.strath.ac.uk writes:
>At Strathclyde we are discussing the pros and cons of moving from a
>many small discless machines type of setup to one with Xterminals
>and a few large UNIX boxex to run applications.
>
>We already run a DEC VMS central service which is laughingly referred
>to as our "Mainframe" installation. It has the nice feature that
>resources such as memory and cpu cycles can be limited for each user.
>
>Our worry is that users of large packages may hog a large UNIX machine,
>and we would like to be able to place quotas on the resources in a similar
>fashion as on our VMS service. We would also like to be able to run a batch
>queue in the evening and at weekends.
>
>I would be very grateful if anybody could mail me details of facilities to
>place quotas on users run time resources on any UNIX systems. 
>Details of any existing batch systems would be equally gratefully recieved.
>
>Many thanks in advance
>
>Steve Holmes (Strathclyde Uni Computing Service)

Easy, buy any system that people are willing to sell you that can
both cope with the load and have educational source availablity.
Then we will GIVE you a system that implements a hierarchical
fair share scheduler (this gets rid of CPU hogs) and a rather complete
set of per-user/group limits, i.e. procs/mem/disk/connect/network/printers
.... 
We currently use MIPS systems because they actually shipped the source
before they shipped the system (this may change due to SGI) and
run a system exactly like what you are thinking of moving to.
220+ Xterms, 12 CPU servers. We change the servers every 18 months or so,
sell the old ones while they are worth money, and buy the next generation
as soon as they are available. This has reduced our equipment budget
requirements by a whole lot.

If you want more details just send me some mail.
Of course we tried getting some manufacturers to run this code
(it is only about 40kb worth of text) but they don't think there
is a market desire for a system that doesn't grind to a halt because
some bozo decided to run 50 infinite loops. I seem to remember quite
a few requests along these lines lately, so maybe the tide is turning.