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From: alan@metadigm.co.uk (Alan McRae)
Subject: modload limit on SunOS 4.1.3
Reply-To: alan@metadigm.co.uk
Organization: Metadigm Ltd
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1992 20:10:15 GMT

Openwindows, Sun-PC, CoPoP (parallel port driver), ... use
modload to load kernel modules. I don't know if its the number
of modules or the total size but currently I appear to have a limit
of 3 modules after which no more can be loaded.

Can this be increased and how?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: loehr@us-es.sel.de (Juergen Loehr)
Subject: strange behavior with {c,tc,k}sh and xterm
Organization: SEL-Alcatel LTS Dept. US/ES
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 16:11:24 GMT

I have some trouble on my Sparc SLC with SunOS 4.1.2. When I login, only ONE xterm appears (started from .Xsession). Due to some race condition a different xterm from the ones invoked in .Xsession will appear at different times. My login shell is the tcsh. When I invoke a xterm manually in back- or foreground, xterm exits without creating anything on the screen with status 0. When I invoke xterm with -e /bin/sh, the window appears. When I type csh, tcsh or ksh in this window, it disappears immediately. Whe



n I open a xterm with -e rlogin localhost -l root, this appears and all subsequent xterm, which failed before, will work. When I exit this root xterm, the same strange behavior continues. Note that this happens only with one of these shells, but the Bourne shell works.

My .cshrc and .login are correct, and the problem remains even when I move them away. .Xerrors does not contain any trace. All device permissions and owners are as usual, the shells and xterm, too.

Any idea what happened?

Juergen
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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun vs. Solbourne console speed
Date: 18 Dec 92 02:11:41 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>So I think the slow console is not due to accident, but due to design.
>Which still leaves the question of:  Why?

To use one of Joel and the 'bots' favorite lines:

	They Just Don't Care.

I.e., making a fast console just isn't very important at Sun, and, as a
Sun stockholder, I'm just as glad that it's not.

If I wanted a fast 34x80 screen on a Sun, I'd probably try to dig up a
large-screen terminal and plug *that* in, and maybe get 54x80 or so. 

However, I *don't* want a fast 34x80 screen; I want *several* *66x80*
screens.  "shelltool" (either in SunView, or in various X
implementations) is fast enough for me, and I can get several 66x80 such
screens on my display, and they even support ISO 8859/1, so the name of
the manufacturer of the *Traction Avant* shows up correctly. :-)

For those people who think window systems are eeeevil, there's always
"tconsole"....

Or, to put it another way, I've seen no evidence whatsoever that it's a
case of "let's deliberately make the console slow".  At most, it's a
case of "yeah, the console is slow, but we don't think it's worth our
while doing things differently to make it faster."
From: glenns@nms.otca.oz.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: password aging and NIS
Keywords: password NIS
Date: 21 Dec 92 02:35:12 GMT

vlb@whitney.UUCP (Virginia L. Baca) writes:

>Will password aging and NIS ever work
>together?  I have a client who really
>needes this. Is there an alternative?

Yes, the SunShield ARM/ASET product has passwd aging that works
with NIS. Ask your sales droid for a price.

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From: tdawson@iphase.com (Tim Dawson)
Subject: Re: increasing disk cache size
Organization: Interphase Corporation, Dallas Texas
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:10:09 GMT

tye@spillman.uucp (E. Tye McQueen) writes:

>flanagan@grover (Jim Flanagan) writes:
>)ozalp@cs.cornell.edu (Ozalp Babaoglu) writes:
>): i would like to configure a NFS server running 4.1.1 to allocate a
>): large disk cache in memory.  how does one do this and what are some
>): guidelines for the relative size of this cache?  thanks in advance.
>)
>)  SunOS 4.x does dynamic disk caching. You don't need to worry about
>)  the size of the cache, and in fact don't have very much control over
>)  it.


A tuning document, "Tuning the SPARCServer 490 for Optimal NFS Performance"
by Varun Mehta and Rajiv Khemani from Sun gives the following procedure
to tune the buffer cache size, and I have used this routinely and it does
work well:



The problem is that NBUF IS defined in SunOS, but only at the object level.  
You can change it as follows:


#!/bin/sh
adb -w /vmunix << EOF
nbuf?W 0x40
EOF

Our recommendations are to use 64 (0x40) for up to 4 drives, and 112 (0x70) if
you have more than 4.  

To monitor cache performance and hit ratios:


#!/bin/sh
adb -k /vmunix /dev/mem << EOF
=n"Buffer Cache Statistics Since Last Boot"
="_______________________________________"
nbuf/D"Buffer Cache Size"n
bstats/D"total buffer cache read requests"n
+/D"hits in cache"n
+/D"times an ages buf was allocated"n
+/D"times an lru buf was allocated"n
+/D"times had to sleep for a buf"n
EOF

Based on this, my 4/470 running an unpatched buffer size, only has 19 
configured.  My new 4/490 will run 112, and the above verifies this figure.

I hope this helps - 
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From: krienke@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Rainer Krienke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.databases.informix,comp.admin.policy
Subject: Database directed system administration ??
Date: 15 Dec 92 08:42:04 GMT
Reply-To: krienke@infko.uni-koblenz.de litauer@infko.uni-koblenz.de
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz
NNTP-Posting-Host: bliss.uni-koblenz.de

We are looking for a database based system for (unix-) workstation 
administration. 
Using this databasesystem we want eg. to be able to add new users to our
system, or new workstations to our net. 
The modification of the data contained in the database schould then trigger
the appropriate actions.
Does anyone know about such a system, or has anyone experience with such a
database ?
Thanks in advandce


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From: jerry@telecom.ksu.edu (Jerry Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: specs for Hyundai HWS-210
Followup-To: poster
Date: 18 Dec 1992 14:46:00 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
Distribution: na
NNTP-Posting-Host: pawnee.telecom.ksu.edu
Summary: needs specs for Hyundai HWS-210
Keywords: Hyundai, HWS-210, LX, microSPARC

Kansas State University recently let a bid for some SPARCstation
LX's or equivalent workstations.  We have received a bid on some
Hyundai HWS-210's, and now we need to determine whether or not
they meet bid specs.

If anyone knows any of the following information, and could fill
in some (any) of the blanks and e-mail this back to me, I'd be
very grateful.  My e-mail address is jerry@telecom.ksu.edu.

Many Thanks.

                                Bid Requirements    Hyundai HWS-210
                                -----------------   ---------------
    Disk Size:                  424 MB              
    Disk Type:                  SCSI-2              
    CPU:                        microSPARC          
    CPU Speed:                  50 MHz              
    Expansion Type:             S-bus               
    Expansion Slots:            2                   
    SPECint92:                  26.4                
    SPECfp92:                   21.0                
    Graphics Accelerator:       GXplus              
    Video RAM:                  1 MB                
    FCC Certification:          Class B             
    RS-232 Serial Ports:        1                   
    Memory Installed:           16 MB               
    Memory Capacity:            96 MB               
    Ethernet Interface:         10 Mb/s AUI         
    Monitor Size:               16-inch             
    Monitor Type:               256 color           
    Monitor Resolution:         1152x900x256        
    Disk Average Seek Time:     16 ms               
    Disk Data Rate              1.6 Mb/s            
    Audio Port:                 16-bit CD-quality   
    ISDN:                       2B+D interface      
    Operating System:           Solaris 2.1         
    Parts Interchangeability:   SPARCstation LX     

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fax: (913) 532-7114                       Manhattan  KS  66506
Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Friday, 11 Dec 1992 17:40:43 CST
From: Prasad Ravi <U21709@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Error message from CD ROM install!!

Hi,
I installed a Sun CD ROM drive on a Sparc 10.
Keep getting the following message on console

       sr0: Error for command 'write'
            Error level Fatal
            Sense Key: Illegal request
            blah.. blah..
            Vendor `Sony` uniqur error code: 0x20
Any comments/suggestions/solutions, please send to
Thanks..
   rilluri@is.rpslmc.edu
From: broberts@wpi.WPI.EDU (broberts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: How do you view postscript under Motif running X11R5?
Date: 14 Dec 1992 22:40:24 GMT
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
NNTP-Posting-Host: wpi.wpi.edu


	Please respond to: jroberts@concord.com

	How does one view Postscript images under Motif 1.7 with X11R5?

	(Pageview doesn't work, being that it's part of Suns NeWS)

	Thanks

	I'm posting this for a friend, so please respond to:

	jroberts@concord.com

	Thanks
From: horen@netcom.com (Jonathan B. Horen -- [408] 736-3923)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: mounting CD by normal user. Alternatives to suid shell script
Keywords: Cd mount, suid shell script, security
Date: 12 Dec 92 00:35:09 GMT
Organization: NetCom -- OnLine Communication Services

In article <1992Dec11.211807.29122@u.washington.edu> axel@apl.Washington.EDU (axel schweiger) writes:
>Can anyone explain to me why suid shell scripts are such a security
>risk and if so how do people accomplish mounting cds and M/O drives
>by non-super users. Has anyone dealt with that ?

Rather than giving everybody the root password, we chose to allow certain
users the ability to perform certain commands on certain workstations,
via "sudo".

You can anonymously ftp it from:

	boulder.colorado.edu:/pub/sa-book/sudo.v1.2.tar.Z

I heartily recommend it -- it helps me to work "smart", rather than "hard",
and it empowers users (for which they will forever be in your debt :-)


Jonathan B. Horen
Sun System Administrator/Sr. Technical Writer
tel: (408) 736-3923 | email: horen@netcom.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.questions
From: efroyman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Ella Froyman)
Subject: DIsk formatting on SPARC 2
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: format
Organization: Northeastern University
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 17:39:48 GMT



[215z15z




Hi folks;


I am trying to format a 1.6 GB Micropolis disk. AFter typing format
the following message appears :

           Block 1836008 (1836/0/8) Fatal non-media error (illegal
request)
failed

I have tried adding this block to the defect disk and I have run analyze
and I still get the error.

Any help suggestions would be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lfini@sisifo (Luca Fini)
Subject: Re: mounting CD by normal user. Alternatives to suid shell script
Organization: Osservatorio di Arcetri
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 13:41:51 GMT

axel schweiger (axel@apl.Washington.EDU) wrote:
: Can anyone explain to me why suid shell scripts are such a security
: risk and if so how do people accomplish mounting cds and M/O drives
: by non-super users. Has anyone dealt with that ?
: 

Because it is pretty easy to foolish the shell executing the script
to provide an interactive shell (with root privileges) to the caller 
of the script (how to do that is reported in the 'alt.security' FAQ).

Security manuals suggest either to use compiled binaries to make the same
job of scripts or to use 'perl' as a script language. Wether that's
is always feasible, I actually don't know.

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From: heiser@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com (Bill Heiser)
Subject: New Answerbook sections?
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 18:49:44 GMT

Is it possible to add new (local) sections to answerbook?
If so, how?

Thanks,
bill
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kls@argus.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Karl L. Swartz)
Subject: Re: halting a sparc with vt100 console
Keywords: halting, vt100, console.
Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 23:27:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec9.155439.1682@news.acns.nwu.edu> guidry@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (David Guidry) writes:
>Generally, just hitting the <BREAK> key will bring up the prompt:
>(b)oot, (c)ontinue, (n)ew mode

Some time ago (probably several times) someone (or several someones)
posted a simple circuit to disable this "feature" for Suns.  Something
like a pull-up resistor on the RD line, though of course that's not
quite right since that would prevent any signal.  Seems to me there
was a diode ... um, maybe from RTS or some such.

Sound familiar?  Would someone who has a real, functioning circuit
please e-mail me a copy?  (I'd prefer e-mail as I may miss news with
the holidays and all, though I'll pass the thing along if there is a
lot of interest.)

Thanks in advance!

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From: tommy@hilbert.att.com (Tom Reingold)
Subject: Re: Root Priviledges Between Workstation and Server?
Reply-To: tommy@boole.att.com
Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ, USA
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 16:05:52 GMT

derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa) writes:

$ I need to have root run a process on a workstation and
$ have the results written to a log file on a server on
$ the network.  Whenever I do this I get a "permission
$ denied".  

$ The path to the log file in question is writable by 
$ owner only (root).  The /.rhosts file on both the workstation
$ and server include both the name of the workstation
$ and the server.  Shouldn't this allow root priviledges
$ between these computers?

$ If not, how else might I accomplish this?

The .rhosts file is used for remote execution which is a different
facility than NFS.  NFS is daemons talking to each other as root and do
not check permission to do remote execution.  As others have indicated,
you should either export the filesystem granting root privileges to the
client or open the file permissions on the server before running the
program on the client.
-- 
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AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel, NJ
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: Console Output Logging?
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:17:30 GMT

Is there a simple way to log all the output
that goes to the console to a file somewhere?
The file /var/adm/messages only contains some
of the console messages.  

Case in point, one of our servers has two tape
drives attached to it.  From time to time during
backups I get error messages, out of media, 
recoverable errors, that sort of thing.  

But if I don't see the console messages and note
them somewhere, they are lost.

Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks, John 
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From: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
Subject: Re: SAVE ME FROM RPC.LOCKD
Organization: Noweh Software, Mississauga, CANADA
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:41:18 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.011935.25011@ibx.com> steve@ibx.com (Steve Giuliano) writes:

   Please...Somebody clue me in...Why can't Sun fix rpc.lockd?

Because the fundamental design of NFS locking, while true to the NFS
model, is flawed.

   Sun told me that all my problems would go away with revision 08
   of the lockd patch.  Wrongo!  Now rev 09 is out. Do I dare?

Yes, dare.  On SPARC machines the latest patches do appear to work
(again within what is possible with NFS).

   Also, someone from Sun told me that any lockd patch must be placed
   on all machines on the net for the 'full effect'.  Is this true?
   I've got 500 workstations and Sun isn't exactly rushing down here to install
   the damn thing.

This is correct to a point.  The lockd patch must be placed on the
machines that serve the NFS filesystems as well as the clients.

As for the large task of installation over 500+ machines, an idea that
comes immediately to mind is to use something like rdist (which is
bundled into the OS, BTW).  I'd expect that the patching could happen
over night without much incident.

   Does someone have the secret of the universe here?  Sun has been
   no help.  Meanwhile, I've got scores of products (Wingz, WP5.1, etc)
   that don't function properly because of this.

The secret of the universe is to organize your resources to minimize
the effects of various known gotcha in a networked UNIX environment.
Counting on NFS locking is one of those things.  I don't thing that
_any_ vendor has it right, in fact when I worked at one that shall
remain nameless, we wished that we could have one like Sun's!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mjr@ursa.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney)
Subject: wacky disk change problem: vi bus errors
Organization: Calvin College
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 01:17:53 GMT

I'm having some wierd problems after upgrading a disk drive, and I'm
hoping that some kind soul out there could lend me a clue.

The machine is a Sun 4/75 running 4.1.2.  We had a Sun 669 meg drive
and we are upgrading it to an Andataco 1.2 gig drive.   I put the new
disk in the chain as ID 2 and partitioned it all out.  On both disks
there are 3 partitions: /, /usr, and /homex. (/home comes in via NFS)
I duplicated the partitions with dump | restore, made the new disk
bootable with installboot, went into eeprom and changed the
boot-device to disk2, and it seemed to boot OK, EXCEPT for a small bus
error in /etc/rc.  It seems /usr/lib/expreserve is bus erroring.  I
soon find out that vi is also doing exactly the same thing.  Everything
else that I tried on the system worked perfectly: X, OW3, emacs, TeX.
They all run fine.  A trace on vi or expreserve reveals that they both
do two mmap()'s right before they bail.  I pulled over vi from another
4.1.2 sun4c machine, and it failed similarly.

Any ideas?
--
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   who doesn't enjoy a lovely beverage."  -DL
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From: marty@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov (Marty Slade)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: traceroute on Sparcs
Date: 21 Dec 92 01:21:41 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory

The Dec. 1992 issue of SunExpert mentions the "traceroute" utility
which allows the sysadmin of a UNIX box to find the (current) route to
a remote host. (This was in the "Ask Mr. Protocol" column.) I cannot
find this in Sun-supplied utilities. Can anyone please point to a
ftp site which can supply this utility?
      Thanks in advance.
                                         Martin Slade
                                         JPL/Caltech Mail Stop 238-420
                                         +818-354-2765
                                         marty@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov
Date: Friday, 11 Dec 1992 23:43:04 CET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help with dump on dat
From: Stefan Schiffer <schiffer@swe.uni-linz.ac.at>
X-UserAgent: Nuntius v1.1.1d11
X-XXDate: Fri, 11 Dec 92 22:32:06 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Universitaet Linz, Austria

In article <Bz2Dq9.Lw2@mail.boi.hp.com> randy barbour, randyb@boi.hp.com
writes:
>NEED HELP WITH DUMP COMMAND ON DAT DRIVE !!!!
>I encountered problems when using the "dump" command on the following
>HP-DAT drive. Using a 60 meter 1.3 GB dat tape, I did the following
>calculations:

...


In "Installing and Configuring HP35470/80A DDS Tape Drives" HP writes:

"Other Hints for SUN

When using the "cpio" command, be sure to set the block size option (-B)
so
that you use a block size of 5120 or greater. This will improve
performance
significantly.

When using the "dump" command, set the tape size (-s) and density (-d)
parameters
to 15000. This will allow you to fill a 90m tape. The defaults for the
"dump"
command are setup for QIC drives, and will result in storing only about
600 Mbytes."

I may add, that for 60m tapes a tape size of 10000 works fine and that a
block size
of 5120 did not show any improved performance when using dump.


Stefan Schiffer
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