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From: sam@john-bigboote.ics.uci.edu (Sam Horrocks)
Subject: Re: 690MP "pausing"
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: UC Irvine Department of ICS
Date: 22 Aug 92 20:11:36 GMT

In <BtCxFJ.62A@gumby.ocs.com> obi@gumby.ocs.com (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas) writes:

>In article <1992Aug18.222325.1509@puma.ATL.GE.COM>, rsnyder@atl.ge.com
>(Bob Snyder) writes:
>> Is anyone else having problems with a 690MP running 4.1.2 seeming to just
>> "pause"?  What will happen is the machine will seem to simply freeze up for
>> about 3 or 4 seconds,  During these these few seconds, the machine appears
>> to respond to nothing, not even echoing keystrokes back when typing on the
>> command line of in an editor like vi.

>I've noticed this behavior on several Suns which were using "swapon" to
>split swap space among several disk partitions. Unfortunately, I don't
>know if there is a fix and if so, if it's one of the fixes you've already
>applied. (Maybe someone else could help?)

I saw a patch for this while scanning Sun OSS the other day.  I didn't
get the patch since I'm not seeing this problem.  You can probably call
Sun to get it.
--
Sam Horrocks
ICS Department, UC Irvine
Email: sam@ics.uci.edu
From: glenns@ra.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Installing part of SunOS?
Date: 20 Aug 92 03:31:16 GMT
Reply-To: glenns@ra.pad.otc.com.au (Glenn Satchell - Uniq professional Services)

You can use /usr/etc/install/add-services, just put the CD in and run the command. It is actually the software screen-form that you use during install, except that this time you select 'edit existing release'.

In article <2w0mxsk.ptrubey@netcom.com>, ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey) writes:
|> Is it possible to install part of the Sun OS release onto a system
|> without having to re-install the whole operating system from scratch?
|> Specifically, I find that I now need to install the Shlib Custom option
|> and I do not want to wipe the system clean.
|> 
|> Thanks, as always, for any info.
|> 
|> -- 
|> 
|> Phil Trubey                   | Internet: ptrubey@netcom.com
|> Systemhouse Inc.              | Voice:    613-834-6919
|>                               | Fax:      613-236-2043

-- 

Glenn Satchell                             kalli!glenn@fourx.aus.sun.com
Uniq Professional Services Pty Ltd                 glenns@nms.otca.oz.au

"The answer is no, and we'll negotiate from there."
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jxh@certes.icd.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein)
Subject: Re: Trackball for a Sun?
Keywords: Trackball
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. Boston MA
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 23:11:18 GMT

In article <1992Aug14.161543.24987@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic) writes:
>Hello out there.  I have a simple question:  I'm getting tired of
>my sun mouse constantly gumming up and taking the pad with it whenever
					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>it gets moved [...]

We bought some rubber pads that are sold for use with mechanical mice,
and stuck them under the optical pads.  Works great!  Who'da thunk it?

Now, if someone could recommend a way to clear up "mouse grunge", my
life would be complete.  Maybe an eraser or something...
-- 
"Neither can His Mind be thought to be in Tune whose Words do Jarre;
 Nor His Reason in Frame whose Sentence is Preposterous."
Jim Hickstein, Teradyne Inc., San Jose CA, (408) 434-0822 FAX -0252
jxh@icd.teradyne.com   ...!apple!attain!jxh
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problem with Netgroups
Date: 20 Aug 1992 20:04:31 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Aug20.175456.284@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic) writes:
>Yes, but how often are netgroups changed?  Seems silly to make
>exportfs -root= so difficult to manage for such an infrequent
>occurrence!

At our site, the host table (which contains nearly 1000 hosts) changes an
average of once a day, and ideally the netgroups should be kept consistent
with it.  We have about 20 file servers, and arranging for them all to
update their exports whenever the netgroups change would be tedious.

-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
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From: jay@ermusa.com (Jay McCarthy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,alt.sys.sun
Subject: NeWSprint/Manual feed problems
Keywords: newsprint sparcprinter wordperfect
Date: 19 Aug 92 18:37:46 GMT
Organization: Earth Resource Mapping, San Diego


Greetings,


I have an interesting problem with NeWSprint.

Scenario:

	Print several manual fed pages in a row via Word Perfect.

Setup:
	1 SPARCprinter attached to a IPC running NeWSprint 2.0a
	4 Word Perfect 5.0 (1/17/92) users with a Apple Laserwriter Driver.
	
What Happens:
	When trying to print three consecutive letterhead (manual fed) pages one
	of the following happens.

	a) It prints the first time and the second time looses the entire print
	job.
	b) looses the print job.
	c) prints the first sheet then looses the rest of the print job.
	d) crashes newsprint to it's knees thus needing to be re-booted. 
	   (kill -9 / 15 ) don't work.

Steps taken:

	Sun:
		1) Got a loaner SPARCprinter.
		2) Re-Installed newsprint
		3) Tried the file at Mountainview.
		4) Replace cabling
		etc....
	Word Perfect:
		1) Tried different drivers.
		2) Tried beta copies of WP.
		etc....

Current status:

	Sun:    "This postscript is 'Unstructured' therefore theres really 
		 nothing we can do'"
		
		BTW.  I have the _PostScript Language Reference Manual_ by Adobe
		      and I cannot find any refference to "Unstructured
		      Postscript".
	
	Word Perfect:

		"It looks as though we may have to write a new driver for the
		 SPARCprinter"

		I could have told them that a while ago.

Odities:

	Pageview will not render this file correctly either it will simply
	overwrite all pages on top of eachother.

	Ghostscript/Ghostview renders this file correctly.

	My files print correctly when taken to a MAC and printed on other PS 
	printers.

Now the Question:

	Has anyone ever had this problem?  If so have they overcome it in any way?
	Have I missed anything?  Any suggestions?
	Is SUN/WP listening?

-- 
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Jay McCarthy                            
Technical Support Coordinator                
Earth Resource Mapping                    E-Mail: jay@ermusa.com
4370 La Jolla Village Drive.            
Suite 400                                ______  _______   _       _
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: obi@gumby.ocs.com (Kuryan "Obi" Thomas)
Subject: Re: page size
Reply-To: obi@gumby.ocs.com
Organization: Online Computer Systems, Inc.
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 06:09:32 GMT

In article <9208221645.aa10159@q2.ics.uci.edu>, ahalim@ics.uci.edu writes:
> 
> How does one determine the size of the memory page?
> [For SunOS 4.1.2]
> 
getpagesize(2).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,sci.electronics,comp.lsi.cad
From: jgealow@mtl.mit.edu (Jeffrey C. Gealow)
Subject: OrCAD for the Sun SPARCstation
Organization: MIT Microsystems Technology Laboratories
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:15:22 GMT

I would like to use OrCAD on our workstations.  I am currently trying to 
install an evaluation copy.  Unfortunately, I have not been able to 
bring up OrCAD in our environment.  While OrCAD is designed for 
OpenWindows, we run X11R4 xdm.  I do get some signs of life.  The 
immediate problem is that OrCAD looks for special OrCAD fonts 
installed in /usr/openwin/lib/fonts during the initialization 
procedure.  Running under xdm, OrCAD can't find these fonts.

Can OrCAD be made to work under xdm?  If not, can we run our existing
X11R4 applications under OpenWindows?  Can we run twm instead of olwm?
Can we avoid having two sets of user dotfiles, one of SPARCs running
OpenWindows and one for our SPARCs and DECstations running xdm?

I would very much appreciate advice and guidance.  We would like to 
run OrCAD but we would like to avoid drastic user-visible changes to 
our X environment.

Jeff Gealow
jgealow@mtl.mit.edu


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: helthuis@cs.utwente.nl (Bert Helthuis)
Subject: Re: NFS automounted home directories and .forward files
Organization: University of Twente, Dept. of Computer Science
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 09:54:50 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.002726.29236@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>, bogstad@blaze.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
|> 	I'm wondering if anybody has a suggestion on a problem I have with
|> the way my network of Suns is currently configured.  We have a central
|> machine which receives most mail and stores it in a mail spool directory
|> which is NFS mounted from about 35 other Suns.  This allows people to access
|> their mail from any machine on the network.  Likewise their home directory,
|> (just about all of those 35 machines) is (auto) NFS mounted on the server
|> and other machines on the network.  My problem is that whenever mail for a
|> user comes in; the server machine has to automount their home directory in
|> order to determine if they have a .forward file.  This is particularily
|> annoying when a mass mailing occurs, because then the server goes off and
|> automounts all the home directories of everybody in the department.
|> Eventually the automounts go away, but it seems to me to be a waste.  Any
|> ideas on how to avoid this while still retaining a central mail spool
|> directory?
|> 

I too would be interested in such ideas. We have a similar setup but
want the .forward processing __on the user's machine__, not on the
mail server because of expected load problems. Some of us here
have scripts to inspect their /usr/spool/mail/ file but this appears
to produce a lot of traffic when this is done on all our machines.

Do you have an elegant solution ?

Bert
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson)
Subject: To use shadow passwds, do I need SYSAUDIT in kernel?
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 08:31:49 GMT

[This is for SunOS 4.1.1 on Sparcstations and Sun-4 servers.]

If I want to do Sun password shadowing without doing any of the C2 auditing,
do I need to build a kernel with the SYSAUDIT option enabled?

I already tried to convert to password shadowing but it didn't work because
(I'm told) I didn't create the auditing UIDs AUpwdauthd and AUyppasswdd.
I didn't think I'd need them, but according to various people, I do.
So maybe I need SYSAUDIT as well.

PLEASE REPLY BY EMAIL and I'll summarise.

My current kernel config file contains:

   #
   # The following options are for accounting and auditing.  SYSAUDIT
   # should be removed unless you are using the C2 security features.
   #
   options       SYSACCT         # process accounting, see acct(2) & sa(8)
   #options      SYSAUDIT        # C2 auditing for security

Janet Jackson
<janet@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Systems Administrator
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Australia
From: arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov (Andrew Arensburger - RMS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: auto set display variable on X terms
Date: 21 Aug 92 20:48:44 GMT
Organization: Goddard Space Flight Center

ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter) writes:
>I am looking for the easy way to set the DISPLAY variable when a user
>signs in. We have some
>X terminals and they login to the Sparc and have to set the display
>variable themselves, 
>what is the easy way to find out from the login process what terminal
>they are signing in from.

	This is my solution. It does much the same thing as the other
posters' solutions. This also started out as a shell script, but at
some point I decided that I wanted the speed of C.
	It runs on Sparcs under SunOS 4.1.1 . For anything else, you're
on your own.

-- 
Andrew Arensburger            | See, Buzz? It's really fun to be psychotic!
arensb@kong.gsfc.nasa.gov     |                     -- MST3K
...!uunet!dftsrv!kong!arensb  | 

----- begin included file ----------------------------------------
#include <stdio.h>
#include <utmp.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <fcntl.h>

extern char *strchr();

main()
{
	struct utmp entry;
	int ufd;	/* /etc/utmp file descriptor */
	int slot;

	/* Get the /etc/utmp entry associated with this login session */
	if ((slot = ttyslot()) == 0)
	{
		fprintf(stderr, "You don't have a tty!\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	/* Open /etc/utmp so we can find the correct entry */
	if ((ufd = open("/etc/utmp",O_RDONLY)) < 0)
	{
		fprintf(stderr, "Can't open /etc/utmp\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	/* Go to the appropriate slot */
	if (lseek(ufd,slot * sizeof(struct utmp),SEEK_SET) < 0)
	{
		fprintf(stderr, "Can't lseek to slot %d\n", slot+1);
		exit(1);
	}

	/* Read the entry */
	if (read(ufd,&entry,sizeof(struct utmp)) == sizeof(struct utmp))
	{
		char *dot;

		/* Retain only the first component of the hostname,
		 * by cutting off everything after, and including, the
		 * first dot.
		 */
		if ((dot = strchr(entry.ut_host,'.')) != NULL)
			*dot = '\0';
		printf("%s\n", entry.ut_host);
		exit(0);
	}
}
----- end included file ------------------------------------------
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cyclone@netcom.com (Bill Sheppard)
Subject: Can't dial-in after upgrade
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 92 04:30:08 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

I recently upgraded our Sun 3/50 from V4.0.1 to V4.1.1.  Just about everything
seems to be working once again except that I don't get a 'login:' prompt when
dialing in via the modem attached to ttyd0.  UUCP, however, is working, so I'm
inclined to think that something strange is going on.  I've restored 'ttytab',
'gettytab', and termcap; I can't find anything else which seems to relate to
modem dial-ins.  Also, in a possibly related development, all modem logins,
including UUCP, used to be displayed on the console.  Now they aren't.

Can anyone shed some light on what else I may need to reconfigure/restore?  I
did rebuild the kernel, I don't know if that has an effect on /dev/ttyd0...

Thanks for the help,

Bill Sheppard
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: benny@csoc.COM (Benny Clark)
Subject: quotas on remote machines
Organization: CAD Systems of Carolina
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:09:56 GMT

I am running quotas under SunOS 4.1.2.  On my file server
everything works fine.  However, on my remote clients, which
have their own disk by the way, I have to run quotacheck
two or three times a day to keep everything in sync.

Is this normal, or am I doing something wrong,  What process
related to quotas need to be running on the remote machines?

Any help is appreciated.  Please email.

Thanks,

-- 
   _/             Benny Clark                  Phone : 919-859-4004
      ___/  ___/ Strategic Technologies        Fax   : 919-859-0657
  /  /     _/   4917 Water's Edge Dr. St. 280  Email : ice@csoc.COM
_/ ____/ ____/ Raleigh, NC  27606                    : ...!uunet!csoc!ice
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson)
Subject: SUMMARY: To use shadow passwds, do I need SYSAUDIT in kernel?
Summary: No!
Organization: Dept. Computer Science, University of Western Australia.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 03:56:55 GMT

In <janet.713781109@dunnart> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (that's me) asked about this.
If you want to refresh your memory, I've quoted my original article below.

Out of the 4 people who replied (thanks, people!) two didn't seem to know
and two said no.

Ian Angles <ia@st-andrews.ac.uk> said:

> Basically, NO!. I did this with a few kernels, then wondered why it locked
> up.

> Sun explained to me as thus - login etc., call the routines in the kernel
> which are just stubs if you don't have SYSAUDIT enabled. When you do have
> SYSAUDIT enabled the kernel routines try and call things like the audit
> deamon and write to audit filesystems, which you probably won't have if
> you're only running shadow passwords.

Also, about the auditing UIDs (see below), Tim Ramsey <tar@math.ksu.edu>
said:

> You only need the auditing UIDs if you are using the C2 jumbo patch.

which I am.


Janet Jackson
<janet@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Systems Administrator
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Australia


----------- My original article -----------

[This is for SunOS 4.1.1 on Sparcstations and Sun-4 servers.]

If I want to do Sun password shadowing without doing any of the C2 auditing,
do I need to build a kernel with the SYSAUDIT option enabled?

I already tried to convert to password shadowing but it didn't work because
(I'm told) I didn't create the auditing UIDs AUpwdauthd and AUyppasswdd.
I didn't think I'd need them, but according to various people, I do.
So maybe I need SYSAUDIT as well.

PLEASE REPLY BY EMAIL and I'll summarise.

My current kernel config file contains:

   #
   # The following options are for accounting and auditing.  SYSAUDIT
   # should be removed unless you are using the C2 security features.
   #
   options       SYSACCT         # process accounting, see acct(2) & sa(8)
   #options      SYSAUDIT        # C2 auditing for security

----------- End of original article -------
From: tsarna@endicor.com (Ty Sarna)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problem with X11R5 on Sun 3/60
Keywords: X11, Sun 3/60
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:52:22 GMT
Organization: Endicor Technologies, Inc.

In article <Bt783E.D5w@andy.bgsu.edu> lsczani@andy.bgsu.edu (Leszek J. Sczaniecki) writes:
> I have downloaded X11R5 from MIT and compiled on Sun 3/60 SOS 4.1.1.
> Works, but with an annoying bug: whenever cursor (cross) touches
> left or right boundary X11 screen disappears and one can see
> the last screen before starting X11. 
> How I can fix it?

You're stunning a cgfour, I assume? Xsun normally allows you to use both
a color display (:0.0) and a mono one (:0.1). It sounds like something is
wrong with rendering to the mono display. You can disable the switching
with the -zaphod option to the X server program (X, Xsun). Of course,
you'll be missing out on the mono display, a feature which I quite enjoy.

--
Ty Sarna				           tsarna@endicor.com

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759
From: erabst@eras177.eras177.ericsson.se (Bengt Stahlknapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: HELP adding HP-PaintJet
Date: 13 Aug 92 10:57:11 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Ericsson Radio Systems, Stockholm,Sweden

Hello there !
We have a SUN Sparc 2+ as printserver SunOS 4.1.1 and Newsprint 2.0
When useing script add_np_printer you can chose 10 HP-printers but not
HP-PaintJet.(add_np_printer is a Newsprint script who put in the printer in
printcap and creates spool-dir and files).
We use the /dev/bpp0 parallell port as interface.
We also have Uniras with PaintJet driver. Uniras makes the file for you.
I want to lpr the file.
Any sudjestions?

Email to me is better than anwer to Newsgroup

Bengt Stahlnapp
Eriksson Radio Systems
Stockholm
Sweden
From: spxpmf@thor.cf.ac.uk (Phillip Fayers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Large Disk problem on Sun4
Date: 14 Aug 92 11:08:14 GMT
Organization: Physics Dept. University of Wales, Cardiff
X-Mailer: Cardiff Computing Maths PP Mail Open News Gateway

Hi all,
	I've had a problem with a system recently and I have an idea
that I've worked out what is wrong - I need to find out whether I'm
right or not. The problem is this:

	Machine: Sun 4/360 (sun4/sun4 arch)
	OS:      SunOs 4.1.1

	The system crashed a few times with a memory error, telling me
which SIMM has the error, this isn't the main problem, we only thought
it was. The SIMM is definately dud and is going to be replaced. The
Prolem occured when the machine reboots after crashing, it failed to
`fsck' our main user disk (a 1.4 GByte Seagate). This disk was in two
partitions, one of 1200 MB (the user data) and one of ~200 MB (swap
space), the swap space was `at the back' of the disk.
	When crashing the machine claims to do a memory dump but when
rebooting `savecore' fails to find it. This disk worked happily on the
machine previously as a single 1400 MB partition which was filled (at
times) to more than 1200 MB. Reformatting the drive on this machine
failed twice - with no error messages, it just died part way through -
reformatting on an IPC (4.1.1 patched for large disks) worked.

	It appears that the machine can handle filesystems > 1GB BUT
when it attempts to write a memory dump to the swap partition it writes
to the wrong place! Instead of starting to write at the end of the disk
(the 1400th MB) and working back it appears to be doing the dump in the
middle of our data disk, wiping out information as it does so. So the
kernel has been fixed to understand >1GB filesystems but the code which
does a memory dump has not.

	Am I on the right track ?
	Can anyone confirm on deny my suspicions ?

-- 

Phillip Fayers                      email: fayers@cardiff.ac.uk
Sun admin/support/programming       phone: 0222 874000 x 5282 (UK)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kahn@PHYSICS.UNC.EDU (Dan Kahn)
Subject: ELC that won't self-test or boot
Organization: Physics Dept. UNC-CH
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 01:13:04 GMT

I've got an ELC that won't run its self-test or boot up.

I was trying to bring the machine up, and because I'm not familiar with the
machine I typed 

b sd(0,3,0)

which gave me a message to type "b sd()", however, I misread this message and
typed

b /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@3,0

by mistake.

This is what "b sd()" was supposed to save me from typing (more or less).  When I
did this the screen went black and the machine has not come up since.  We've
tried rebooting in a number of different ways, including in a different chassis. 
The machine has never even gone so far as do a self test.  All we get is a beep,
a quick flash of the keyboard lights and then the black screen.

Is it possible that I've messed up the eeprom doing with my mistake?  Is there
any easy way of determining that the eeprom is corrupted?

Thanks,
--dan
From: srobbins@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Steven Robbins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: format.dat entry for Seagate ST42400N Elite 2.4G drive needed
Date: 22 Aug 92 11:41:06 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

Could someone please email to me a format.dat entry for a 
Seagate ST42400N Elite 2.4G drive?
Thanks
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