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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Subject: Re: how to shut down NFS on a running system?
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL7]
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:11:47 GMT

Ken Lam (lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
: mp@allegra.att.com (Mark Plotnick) writes:
: 
: [stuff deleted]
: 
: >I'm looking for advice on how to shut down the NFS services.  These
: >systems are NFS clients (using the automounter), and one of them is an
: >NFS server to about 5 other systems elsewhere on the net.  I need to
: >find a way to unmount filesystems even when they're in use, since all
: >sorts of things (such as any command that uses getwd) break when a
: >server of a mounted filesystem is inaccessible.
: 
: >Any ideas?
: 
: You actually want to kill NFS while in use?  Hmm...I've never done this,
: but you could make a script or something to swap the exports file with one
: which doesn't export then issue a HUP signal to the appropriate daemons.
: That should reset everything, but I don't know what will happen to transactions
: happening at the time of death.
: 

What will happen to existing mounts if you unexport them is that all
applications will get "permission denied" and probably crash. If you
want recoverability, I don't really know of anyway to do it.

Russ Poffenberger               DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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From: pspalo@mike.com (pspalo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Need printcap entry for QMS ColorScript 100 Model 10
Date: 15 Dec 92 12:30:32 GMT
Organization: Mystech Associates, Falls Church, VA

I'm looking for a printcap entry for the QMS ColorScript 100 Model 10.
It is being hooked up between the bidirectional parallel port (/dev/bpp0)
of Sun's s-bus sparc-printer card and the printer's centronix port.

We have NewsPrint and Transcript software loaded, and probably want to
use NewsPrint with it.  I've tried using the scripts there to add a
printcap entry, but get ioctl errors from postio -- FIONREAD.

Redirection to the device gets output, so the connection is fine.
Anyone have a printcap for this printer, or any QMS using parallel??

Thanks.
-- 

						-Paul
From: TRENT@HERMES.ECE.ARIZONA.EDU (Jot Powers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SunOS 4.1.3 patchkit...
Date: 17 Dec 92 03:41:30 GMT
Distribution: world,local
Organization: U OF A ECE DEPARTMENT
X-News-Reader: VMS NEWS 1.24

I have just finished the preliminary testing of a 
patchkit that I have built that applies 12 of the security
patches in 4.1.3.  It seems, in their infinite wisdom, Sun couldn't
incorporate these fixes in the move from 4.1.2 to 4.1.3 even though
most of them were known. /shake head in disbelief.  And then, it seems
that they can't get one of their people to do this, even though it
seems relatively simple (for someone who knows what they are doing, not
me  ;).

So, the question is, is there enough demand for this monstrosity.  I've
only managed to test it on a sun4c (IPC), but it seems to have worked
fine, and I will be testing it on the rest of my machines soon.  

If you're interested, send me mail and if there is enough demand, I'll
put it up via anonymous ftp.

Hope this makes someone's life easier....

Trent

trent@ece.arizona.edu
trent@hacks.arizona.edu (Where I have my REAL fun  :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pirzyk@vinny.cecer.army.mil (Jim Pirzyk)
Subject: Re: New system administration.
Organization: US Army Corps of Engineers Construction Engineering Research Labs
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:05:51 GMT

In <1992Dec11.171335.1@sep.vitro.com> eswgcs%v8.decnet@v7.vitro.com writes:

>I have recently become defacto system administrator of a SPARCstation 2.
>I am having a few problems that someone should either be able to easily 
>answer.

>1. I am attempting to back up the file system using the dump command.
>   I am attempting to dump to /dev/rst0 which is a 150MB 1/4 in. tape. 
                             **^^^^^^^^^**
>   For example:
>   
>       dump 0suvn 700 /dev/sd0a

>   I get the message:

>       DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Dec 11 17:04:07 1992
>       DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
>       DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rmt8
                                      **^^^^^^^^^**
>       DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
>       DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
>       DUMP: estimated 13468 blocks (6.58MB) on 0.61 tape(s).
>       DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open volume. Do you want to retry the
>open?:
>     
>   Any suggestions???

You need to add the f option to dump to tell it to dunp to /dev/rst0 instead
of /dev/rmt8 (which is the default).


>2. Our SUN is connected to Internet via a VAX Mini named VITRO.  Everything
>   works fine as long as I use IP addresses.  How do I fix up my SUN to use
>   Internet site names.  I have hea/rd that there is a patch out there for this.
???
Do you have the name and ip of the vax VITRO in the /etc/hosts file?

>3. How do I go about making a bootable tape.  Will the dump utility do this
>   for me?

I would also like to know how to do this too.

>4. One lsat item.  I am using a program to connect our VAXstations to the sun.
>   When a user wants to run X applications on their VAXstations, they enter

>      xdnet vax &

>   where vax is the node name of their station.  This program works fine, 
>   except that xdnet does not get killed when the user logs out.  If 
>   multiple xdnets are running for the same vax node, problems arise.  The
>   vendor is "aware of the problem".  The recommended fix is to check that
>   an xdnet is running when a user logs in.  If so, kill that xdent and start
>   up a new one.  What is the best way to do this?


>    Thanks !!!!!!
>                                                 
-- 
[Jim] pirzyk@uiuc.edu ------------------------------------------
TAC System Administrator, US Army Corps of Engineers 
Construction Engineering Research Labs, Champaign IL USA
/* Hello, we're the government and we're here to help you. :) */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jmg@stdavids.picker.com (Jeff Granito)
Subject: Re: halting a sparc with vt100 console
Reply-To: jmg@stdavids.picker.com
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 15:20:38 GMT

If I remember correctly, you can use the break key on the vt100 to send a break signal
to the sparc.  This should do the same thing as hitting L1A.

Jeff
---
jmg@stdavids.picker.com
System Software Engineer
Picker International

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: wsmith@teal.csn.org (Walter Smith)
Subject: Help needed writing printcap for HP LaserJet III (PS)
Organization: Colorado SuperNet, Inc.
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 04:27:16 GMT

Greetings,

My company recently purchased a CompuAdd SS2 (SPARC clone) to run Interleaf on.
Yours truly is the defacto administrator for it - up till now I've only been
a UNIX user.

I'm trying to get the printcap entry for an HP LaserJet III using a PostScript
cartridge. I can't yet print from the OS. I can, however, print from Interleaf
by first writing a PS file to disk, then printing the PS file (via the Interleaf
print menu). I works, but it's hardly an elegant solution.

Please, please, pleeeeease ... If anyone can tell me what to do, please either
call me at 303-449-6954 or email me at wsmith@rmt.com. Thanks.

Walter Smith
From: clc8347@tamu.edu (Cheryl Cato)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Someone please prove me right (or wrong
Date: 11 Dec 1992 19:42:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University
Distribution: world
Reply-To: clc8347@tamu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: nigel.tamu.edu

In article 422@ftms.UUCP, brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
***In article <1992Dec7.235909.26609@colorado.edu> laszlo@eclipse.cs.colorado.edu (Laszlo Nemeth) writes:
***<sparc classic HAS to run solaris 2.????
***<because of how it reads/finds the boot file.
***
***It has to run Solaris 2.x because the microSPARC I/O is different and 4.1.x
***doesn't have the driver support for the different I/O.
***-- 

They used the Tsunami chip sets on the classic and the LX.

Cheryl


---
 - 

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: eswgcs%v8.decnet@v7.vitro.com
Subject: New system administration.
Summary: A new Sys. Administrator needs help.
Reply-To: cstump@vitro.com
Organization: Vitro Corporation
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:13:35 GMT

I have recently become defacto system administrator of a SPARCstation 2.
I am having a few problems that someone should either be able to easily 
answer.

1. I am attempting to back up the file system using the dump command.
   I am attempting to dump to /dev/rst0 which is a 150MB 1/4 in. tape. 
   For example:
   
       dump 0suvn 700 /dev/sd0a

   I get the message:

       DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Fri Dec 11 17:04:07 1992
       DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
       DUMP: Dumping /dev/rsd0a (/) to /dev/rmt8
       DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
       DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
       DUMP: estimated 13468 blocks (6.58MB) on 0.61 tape(s).
       DUMP: NEEDS ATTENTION: Cannot open volume. Do you want to retry the
open?:
     
   Any suggestions???


2. Our SUN is connected to Internet via a VAX Mini named VITRO.  Everything
   works fine as long as I use IP addresses.  How do I fix up my SUN to use
   Internet site names.  I have heard that there is a patch out there for this.

3. How do I go about making a bootable tape.  Will the dump utility do this
   for me?

4. One lsat item.  I am using a program to connect our VAXstations to the sun.
   When a user wants to run X applications on their VAXstations, they enter

      xdnet vax &

   where vax is the node name of their station.  This program works fine, 
   except that xdnet does not get killed when the user logs out.  If 
   multiple xdnets are running for the same vax node, problems arise.  The
   vendor is "aware of the problem".  The recommended fix is to check that
   an xdnet is running when a user logs in.  If so, kill that xdent and start
   up a new one.  What is the best way to do this?


    Thanks !!!!!!
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SunPro/Tech software licensing...
Date: 19 Dec 1992 18:59:57 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com
Keywords: sunc++3.0.1, Sunc2.0, sparcworks, licensing

In article <1992Dec19.003618.20466@netcom.com> kwan@netcom.com (Kwan-Seng Low) writes:
>	My question out of the story is: Isn't all this new licensing things
>that came out suppose to make life easier for a sys admin? or it's only me
>that having problem? I've enough to do on my hands, I don't this licensing
>crab to complicate my life.

Someone else already gave the cynical answer, so I'll suggest the answer
that gives the vendors the benefit of the doubt.

No, license managers aren't supposed to make administration easier.  It's
supposed to make it easier for *users* to stay within the restrictions of
the licenses that were purchased.  Without license managers, users might
inadvertently run more simultaneous instances of the program than they
purchased.

If this requires more work on the part of the sysadmin to install and
maintain, that's the breaks.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: narayan@sut.ac.jp (Devendra Narayan)
Subject: Planning for a 10,000 user network !
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.unix.admin
Organization: Science University of Tokyo
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 07:21:55 GMT

	Our university is now planning for a large network of Unix
workstations. There a few questions I have about large scale
networks and experiences that other large sites have.

	We plan to have about 700-1000 workstations in our Tokyo campus
with 7,000-10,000 students having accounts on these machines. From
the administrators standpoint, what we would like to have in the
system is that any of these users should be able to log onto any
of the workstations and access their unique home directory. We would
have to use NIS ( ? ) and NFS. Whether we have all the information
on one large ( Super ? ) server or a couple of smaller servers will,
of course, depend on the cost - performance of the server(s). 

	I am seeking information about the comparative performance of
various hardware manufacturers server machines as well as on
issues that we will have to be concerned with - network speed
and performance ( whether to use multiple ethers or FDDI or 100
baseT or HIPPI or whatever ), the server CPU and internal bus
performance, whether to use a single, large mainframe or even
super-computer level machine or perhaps distribute the whole
information ( all the 10,000 homes plus the NIS info. ) over 
several servers. From the user's standpoint, all this has to be
transparent so that when he/she logs in to any workstation, he
sees the same home directory. There are also issues of security
etc. that probably need to be considered. NIS apparently has an
upper limit of 2500 users and I would welcome any information
on NIS replacements.

	I seek input from unix administrators from large academic sites
who probably have already faced ( and hopefully solved ) some if
not all of these issues. Would really appreciate any and all input.
I do not know if there would be enough interest in the group about
such matters, but if there is, perhaps replies to the newsgroup
will generate more interest and be useful to others as well.

Thanks
Devendra Narayan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de (Michael Riepe)
Subject: Re: Need to let Non-Root use Mount
Reply-To: riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de
Organization: University of Hannover (Germany), IFW
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 05:46:15 GMT

In article @lynx.unm.edu, khan@us17501.mdc.com (Naseer Khan) writes:
|>Hello Sun Gurus,
|>
|>I need to let someone mount a CD on their own but without giving
|>them root privilege.  The mount command requires one to be root.
|>How can I get around this?
|>
|>The command they need to execute is 'mount -r /dev/sr0 /cdrom'
|>So, I thought I'd see if I could put that in a shell file and
|>set it's permission to 4755 (with setuid) and have it owned
|>by root.  I didn't have much hope for this, suspecting that the
|>shell probably wouldn't be passing the user-id around.  Well,
|>I guess I was right in my pessimism.  It gives the same old
|>message 'Need to be root to use mount' or something like that.
|>
|>So, please, can you help me out here?

What are you talking about ? On this system (Sparc10, SunOS 4.1.3) the
shell scripts below work fine with owner=root and perms=4755 (and there
is also a similar version for the floppy disk).

#!/bin/sh
# cdmount
mount -r /dev/sr0 /cdrom

#!/bin/sh
# cdumount
umount /dev/sr0

Michael.
-- 
 Michael Riepe               <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de>
 Universit"at Hannover
 Institut f"ur Fertigungstechnik und Spanende Werkzeugmaschinen
 Schlosswender Str. 5               W-3000 Hannover 1 (Germany)
 ...life is a sexually transmitted desease !
From: gordon@rahul.net (Gordon Vickers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Error message from CD ROM install!!
Date: 12 Dec 92 04:15:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: a2i network

In article <92346.174043U21709@uicvm.uic.edu> Prasad Ravi <U21709@uicvm.uic.edu> writes:
>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
>
>
    Funny, I had no problems doing the install with a DEC CD-ROM drive.
    Seriously though, I have been getting the same sort of message from
   my Conner 3200F hard disk that I was hoping to add.

  Any help would be appreciated. I'll monitor this thread for replys, or
  respond to gordon@rahul.net

   Thanks.
-- 
Gordon Vickers <gordon@rahul.net>
From: robinson@jetsun.Eng.Sun.COM (David Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SAVE ME FROM RPC.LOCKD
Keywords: rpc.lockd
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:53:19 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View, CA  USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: jetsun

In article <1992Dec17.112649.6211@ucc.su.OZ.AU> matth@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Matthew Hannigan) writes:
>In article <1992Dec8.011935.25011@ibx.com>
>	 steve@ibx.com (Steve Giuliano) writes:
>>I've got several 6x0 machines that sit all day and bitch about
>>
>>	rpc.lockd: cannot contact status monitor!
>>
>>Meanwhile it usurps about 25% of my CPU.  Yes rpc.statd is running.
>>BTW, portmap is screaming during this time too.
>
>rm /etc/sm/* /etc/sm.bak/* worked for me when I got this problem.
>
>Don't _really_ know why :-) but see the manual for statd.

The locking protocol depends heavily on the status monitor protocol.
When a lock is requested by a client it first contacts the local status
monitor to have it "monitor" the server.  When a host is monitored
an entry is placed in the /etc/sm directory.  The server likewise
monitors the client.  If one or the other crashes the status monitor
upon reboot uses the stored files as a list of hosts to contact and
inform them that they have rebooted and to either free or rerequest their
locks.

Now situations occur where the status monitor can't contact another
host (permenantly dead) and it will dilligently keep trying to contact
the other host.  Removing the /etc/sm and /etc/sm.bak files essentially
erases the host's long term memory so it will keep retrying
other hosts on reboot.  

Combine this with bugs in lockd and you get your problem.

	-David
From: axel@apl.Washington.EDU (axel schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: mounting CD by normal user. Alternatives to suid shell script
Keywords: Cd mount, suid shell script, security
Date: 11 Dec 92 21:18:07 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec11.211807.29122
Organization: University of Washington, Polar Science Center, Seattle

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 ?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
Subject: Re: tcsh for Solaris 2.1?
Organization: Noweh Software, Mississauga, CANADA
	<ellis.723784078@nova>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 04:43:28 GMT

In article <ellis.723784078@nova> ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis) writes:

   brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII) writes:

   >In article <1992Dec4.150456.8605@dragon.acadiau.ca>, peter@dragon.acadiau.ca (Peter Steele) writes:
   >|> Does anyone have tcsh or possibly zsh compiled for Solaris 2.1. I've got

   >   Check farside.rutgers.edu in the bin directory, you'll find a
   >binary for tcsh and a few others.

   >-- 

   >Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
   >	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
   >brossard@sic.epfl.ch

   I just checked there and do not find it.  Any other clues?

Try opcom.sun.ca
-- 
Georg S. Nikodym  -  (416) 272-5198 / 720-4729
Noweh Software - Mississauga, Ontario, CANADA
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RFC822:	georgn@noweh.COM
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal)
Subject: How Xterm can use more fonts?
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:51:42 GMT

Xterm on our SS2 running SunOs 4.1.1b and OW3 does not set large fonts.
Pressing Ctrl-right_button shows :
Vt founts (no app defaults)
and no usual selection of small, medium, large etc. fonts. How Xterm 
defaults for fonts can be set?
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University of Illinois		Phone: (217) 244-3164
1207 W. Gregory Dr.
Urbana, IL 61801
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jens@kssun3.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt 07151690270)
Subject: How to update shared libraries?
Organization: Computer Center U o Stuttgart, Communications Dept, FRG
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 11:50:50 GMT

Hello Experts!

On our Sparc Station with SUNOS 4.1.1 we have shared libraries
with version 1.6 and 1.6.1 in /usr/lib as follows:
-rw-r--r--  1 root     staff        7996 Oct 11  1990 /usr/lib/libc.sa.1.6
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff      516096 Oct 12  1990 /usr/lib/libc.so.1.6
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     staff      532480 Mar 27  1992 /usr/lib/libc.so.1.6.1

Now I ftp'd a binary from some other Sparc Station which on invocation
produced a linker warning:
ld.so: warning: /usr/lib/libc.so.1.6.1 has older revision than expected 7

So my libraries are not up to date. I can get from the same Sparc Station
the libraries with version 1.8 and 1.8.1. My question is if I can
just ftp these and put them in my /usr/lib and do a ldconfig.
I don't want to *JUST DO IT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS* because
if something is wrong with this, many programs wouldn't work anymore.
Perhaps even the rm I need to undo my disastrous attempt.

BTW I feel pretty left alone with this shared library stuff. Nothing
about these questions in the man pages (or did I overlook s.t.?)
Does anyone know a good book/article/faq-list which explains
the philosophy/dos & don'ts in connection with shared libraries?

Thanxalot for any advice!
-- 
jens@kssun3.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (Jens Schweikhardt)
Communications Dept. - University Of Stuttgart, Germany

For a nice talk call 1-800-dev-null
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: MICHAEL.WILLETT@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Michael Willett")
Subject: Re: Raid 7 Versus Earlier Raid 4 -- Sun
Organization: Mail to News Gateway at Wang Labs
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 14:52:50 GMT

Regarding availability of RAID 7, Dave Goldblatt at Clarkson University
writes:

>I wonder if Wang resells them?

No, these RAID 7 disk array platforms are not available from us here
at the new Wang Labs.  You would have to get them directly from Storage
Computer in Nashua, New Hampshire, or via their European headquarters
in Frankfurt, or their European/Asia/Pacific distributors.  Here at the
new Wang Labs we are reselling a RAID 3 from another major vendor, because
the architecture more closely matches that of our VS minicomputers
(both those already installed and the new VS high-end models that have
been coming out recently.)   I'll be happy to find some technical RAID
reports on the Wang VS RAIDs for those people interested.

>Other than one article in a trade rag somewhere, I've never seen
anything else on it in the press.

Actually they've published a number of technical articles in the
literature.  They seem to prefer to publish more technical material,
rather than marketing blurbs.  There have been some recent, favorable
reviews of their products in Corporate Technology Review, Open Systems
Today, and iX magazine from Germany.  People interested could probably
get copies by calling them at 603-880-3005.

In general, they seem to prefer demoing their products at user group
meetings, rather than sending out press releases.  They have recently
had booths at the Banyan, Wang, and Sun users groups meetings, among
others.

Michael.Willett@OFFICE.Wang.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin