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From: herb@iiasa.ac.at (Herb HASLER)
Subject: Re: Network Problems
Organization: IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 09:31:44 GMT

Well the problem seems to be that the DECstation does not like the ethernet
address of our rs6000.  A 'ping ibm' followed by 'arp ibm' returns:

ibm (147.125.1.17) at (incomplete)

The rest of machines on the subnet (suns, hp's, sgi, dg) all experience no
difficulty in resolving the ethernet address.

Using tcpdump I can see the arp request go out when the ping is entered and
the arp reply return the address correctly as:

2:60:8c:2f:2:c9

Is there something strange about the ethernet address? 


Herb Hasler
herb@iiasa.ac.at

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.text.desktop
From: jag@jeeves.trl.OZ.AU (John Gilmour)
Subject: wanted: document converters
Organization: Telecom Research Labs, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 11:05:22 GMT


I'd like to convert a number of different document formats to text
formats on unix.  I'm interested in outputs from various PC packages:
MSWORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, WK1, NOTEPAD.

Are there any converters to RTF for these formats than run under
unix?

Are there any direct text converters for these packages that run under
unix?

Will consider public domain or comerical software.



Thanks

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From: holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: passwd
Date: 8 Jan 1993 10:49:33 -0600
Organization: Kansas State University
NNTP-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu

Does anyone know how to make passwd behave non-interactively?  We've tried
(echo newpass ; echo newpass ) | passwd, but it wants the passwords to be
typed in from the keyboard.  I need to do this in a script, to set up new
account passwords...

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char*p="char*p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik)
Subject: Re: Backing up a system over a TCP/IP network 
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Reply-To: zbig@wariat.org (Zbigniew J. Tyrlik)
Organization: Akademia Pana Kleksa, Public Access Uni* Site
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 17:14:05 GMT

As quoted from <1993Jan10.073908.16210@wacher.oz.au> by pjw@wacher.oz.au (Peter Williams):

+---------------
> G'Day,
> 
> Has anyone out there have a shell script or some suggestions to how I can
> backup my SCO UNIX machine to a tape drive on another SCO machine using a
> TCP/IP network.
> 
> I have thought about the problem but any suggetions or code would be 
> great help.

What about: 

your preferred command | rsh other_machine dd of=/dev/tape


( I was looking for reference to rmt, but no luck - anyone has an
idea what it is for ??)


> 
> Thanks in advance.
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: jwilson@homeboy.msfc.nasa.gov (Jackie Wilson - BCSS)
Subject: Re: Horror Stories UNIX Admin!
Summary: Message displayed when a telnet session is established
Reply-To: jwilson@homeboy.msfc.nasa.gov
Organization: Boeing Computer Support Services
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 23:13:53 GMT

Does anyone know how to modify the message that is displayed
when a telnet session is established?  Normally when a telnet session
is started on a Sun you get the following message

>Trying 131.XX.XX.XX ...
>Connected to machine-name.
>Escape character is '^]'.
>
>
>SunOS UNIX (machine-name)
>
>login:

I've not been able to find a configuration file or header file where
these messages are defined.  Has anyone tried this before?  I suppose
I could get the source code for telnet off the net somewhere and hack
it a little but I would like to avoid that if possible.

Jackie Wilson
jwilson@homeboy.msfc.nasa.gov
From: mbarkah@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Ade Barkah)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Consensys ptys
Date: 8 Jan 93 12:20:05 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

djast@r-node.pci.on.ca (Dan Astoorian) writes:
: 
: Currently we have 16 pseudo terminals configured by default, but
: we would want to increase the number to say 32.  We had tried
: changing entries in /etc/conf/sdevice.d/pts, /etc/conf/sdevice.d/ptm,
: and /etc/conf/sdevice.d/ptem then we ran /etc/conf/bin/idmknod to
: create the device files in /dev. And we finally ran /etc/conf/bin/idbuild
: to rebuild the Unix kernel.  The pts device files were created,
: but we still cannot open more than 16 pseudo terminals.

I don't have Consensys, (I run microport 4.1,) but the following
should work:

I believe the values you need to change are the third column of
the /etc/conf/sdevice.d/ptm and /etc/conf/sdevice.d/pts files.
You would also need to change the /etc/conf/node.d/pts file
to tell idmknod of the new major/minor pairs. Follow the
convention of existing entries in the file. You then rebuild
the kernel using /etc/conf/bin/idbuild. You should shutdown
and reboot (I believe idmknod is called upon re-enterring
init state 2.)

I've actually never tried the above myself, since during the
installation I configured my kernel with 256 entrypoints. If
all fails, reinstalling the proper package (nsu for microport)
interactively might do the job.

Good luck,

-Ade.
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From: wvarga@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Wilson Varga)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Training users
Summary: invest in an end-user menuing system
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:14:31 GMT
Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.

>In article <1993Jan4.230449.3269@pacdata.uucp>, jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins) writes...
>>My boss wants me to give a 2-3 hour training session on using Unix more
>>effectively
>>Most of them don't seem to be willing to teach themselves, several still can't
>>seem to grasp the man command.  It's truly amazing how someone can ask me
>>a question, then watch as I type 'man foo', put my finger on the screen, and
>>read off the answer
>
    Teaching non-technical end-users to productively use
unix reminds me of the proverbial task of teaching a pig
to sing:   it exhausts you, the teacher, and annoys the
pig.
    Providing such training is neither effective (as your
own experience with 'man' demonstrates) nor cost effective.
Your end-users were not hired to work with unix; they were
hired to do their jobs.  Instead of wasting the time of
all concerned in attempting training, invest in an end-user
menuing system.  Let the end-user interact with a simple
menu and keep them away from the unix shell.  There are
commercial products to do the job (recommended route) or
you can whip up some home-grown solution using shell scripts
(not recommended, as being too costly).  Either way, you
will obviate the need for training.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: rmfowler@landru.mtc.ti.com (Rex Fowler)
Subject: Re: Network Problems
Organization: Manufacturing Technology Center, Texas Instruments, Dallas
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 04:49:30 GMT

In article <1993Jan5.124802.8428@iiasa.ac.at> herb@iiasa.ac.at (Herb HASLER) 
writes:
>I am looking for some advice or possible leads with a network problem we
>are experiencing at our site.  We have about 8 sparcs, 1 dec 5000/200,
>1 rs6000, 1 hp710 and 2 data general avions.  The problem is that I can
>not get the decstation and the rs6000 to communicate (all machines are
>on the same subnet) yet they can communicate (using ping) with every other 
>machine and every other machine can communicate with them.

I saw the same problem about a year ago.  I'm not quite sure of the
exact cause but swapping some ethernet cards and tranceivers seemed
to have cured the problem.  What I did in the meantime was to add an
entry to the routing tables of the 2 machines to route packets to
each other through a machine they would both speak to.   By the
way, my hardware was different than what you mention.

You might also check to see that trailers are turned off on all
your network interfaces and netmasks are the same.
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
From: zhao@adx.adelphi.edu (Bin Zhao)
Subject: telnet program that uses remote name server
Organization: Adelphi University
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 19:23:41 GMT


Hi there:
	
	Our site has a Sun386/OS4.02 and it's not running DNS (it's running
YP though). I am wondering if there is any telnet and ftp program that
would use a remote name server so that users telnet or ftp to the
outside world without having to use IP numbers. Thanks.
-- 
 Bin Zhao  <zhao@adx.adelphi.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: dan@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Danilo Silva)
Subject: Re: DialUps <-- Me too !!
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 22:23:44 GMT
Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO  80523

Yes, please !!!!!!!!!

A FAQ for modem connectioni/setup would be VERY MUCH appreciated.
I'm having problems with my Hayes 9600 and HP9000-835.

Thanks in advance,


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: pkerr@maccs.mcmaster.ca (Paul Kerr)
Subject: Problems booting Sun after changing fstab
Organization: Department of Computer Science, McMaster University
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:42:02 GMT


Hello,

 I am having some problems getting my Sun IPC (SunOS 4.1.1) up
and running after some changes I did not think would give me a 
problem. Here is what I did...

  o A friend of mine brought over a scsi-cd from his next. I wanted
    to try it out on my standalone and because I had no device to 
    device cable I had to remove my shoebox (internal 669 and tape)
    and only have the cd attached. Before I shutdown I removed the 
    entries in /etc/fstab corresponding to the filesystems on the 
    669 (/usr/local /usr/spool/news). I commented them out...

  o I tried to boot with the cd attached and didnt see it during the 
    boot process (not to worry, it was no big deal, I just wanted
    to see if I could get access to it). But the boot did not 
    complete. It gets as far as the ldconfig and then complains
    with the following errors

	ldconfig: directory /usr/openwin/lib not cached
                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^
	                    link from /usr/local/openwin
	link editor directory cache
	/etc/rc: 81 Memory fault - core dump
  	[...bunch more Memory faults]

	squid init:'/usr/etc/getty std 9600 consol' failing,sleeping

  o So after some thought I realize that it is probably not
    building the ld.cache. When I boot -s, single user, I can
    run echo *, rcp, tar... the other staticlly linked commands
    but I get the same error when I try to run anything else.

  o I tar'ed a copy of fstab to diskette, took it to a friends and
    removed the comments for the 669's fs and then tried to put it
    back in /etc on my machine. BUT! it came back and said the fs /
    was read only?!?!? 
    mount shows /dev/sd0a rw ?!?!
  
  o When I boot from the monitor I issue b -s and then fill in the
    prompts when it asks me for devices to boot from, and swap from.

Why cant I write to / when I boot in single user? If I could do 
that Im sure that restoring fstab should fix the original problems.
Are the filesystems permission problems related to the fact that
rc cannot complete any commandsI
Can anyone offer any insight into how I can restore fstab. Getting a
bootable tape is not really an option since I dont have close access 
to anyone that I could get one from.

		Thanks in advance, Paul
From: kbahey@ncrsaud.SaudiArabia.NCR.COM (Khalid Bahey-elDin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Horror Stories UNIX Admin!
Date: 5 Jan 93 13:01:59 GMT
Reply-To: kbahey@ncrsaud.SaudiArabia.NCR.COM (Khalid Bahey-elDin)
Organization: NCR Corp., Saudi Arabia

In article <1992Dec24.145310.5119@mongrel.UUCP> amdunn@mongrel.UUCP (Andrew M. Dunn) writes:
>In article <BzqF81.7EH@trc.amoco.com> zcjm0f@wwnv67.hou.amoco.com (CJohn Mace) writes:
>>
>>its ok to post the stories.  :-)
>>
>>if someone wants to complain about the size costing them money, then they
>>should probably buy a faster modem...
>
>Well, excuuuuuse me.
>
>I guess AMOCO provides your modem, and pays for a faster one.  The rest
>of the world isn't so lucky that they can use their employer's cash to
>pay for their NetNews reading.

I agree! People getting the news for free (like in universities, or thru a
local phone call) are not the only people in the world, and there are lots of
overseas users.

Corporate policy mandates that we get what we get from our Head Quarters in the
USA, so we cannot get this from a local source.

Also, not every place has a free local newsfeed thru the local university or
so.

So, please be considerate for others who like to still get the groups, and
don't give anyone (those who pay the phone bills) a reason for discontinuing
the service on cost basis, whether the guy who pays the bill is the same as of
different from the user himself.

Regards
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From: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Shell script to invoke su and mount CD-ROM
Date: 8 Jan 1993 18:49:57 GMT
Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, College of Oceanography
NNTP-Posting-Host: skyking.oce.orst.edu
Keywords: su, csh, cd-rom

In article <1993Jan8.173010.18598@csi.uottawa.ca> glenn@popeye.genie.uottawa.ca (Glenn Warnock 789-3225 Algonquin Associate) writes:

>We are trying to write a script which will invoke su and mount the CD-ROM, 
>but we cannot invoke su in the script and automatically give it the password.
>
>Any suggestions on how to solve this problem?

Write a set-uid root perl script to do it.

#!/usr/local/bin/suidperl
$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/ucb/bin:/usr/etc';   #security stuff
$path = $ENV{'PATH'};                                   #security stuff
$ENV{'SHELL'} = '/bin/sh' if $ENV{'SHELL'} ne '';       #security stuff
$ENV{'IFS'} = '' if $ENV{'IFS'} ne '';                  #security stuff
$< = $>;                                # real uid must be root for exportfs
print `mount blah blah blah`;

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Subject: Re: How to move a filesytem?
Keywords: dump restore subshell shell pipe
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:13:55 GMT


>One thing I haven't yet figured out is why folks keep insisting on
>dumping to a subshell that then cds and restores.

It's easy to not be in the right directory -- having it on the commandline
is just sort of a sanity check.  I restored a /usr into / one too many times.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: bataller@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Erik Bataller)
Subject: text searching CORRECTED
Organization: University of Wisconsin Academic Computing Center
Distribution: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.shell,comp.std.unix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.misc,comp.sources.unix
Date: 7 Jan 93 18:00:51

Hello,
	I must apologize for my previous message about text searching.
I know there are facilities for it like grep and find, but are there
any good scripts or programs that do it nicely.  For instance, included
below is a script I tried to write which searches with find and grep
so that I search recursively with getting all the ugly error messages
grep spits out when you grep a directory.  I am working to improve it.
I just did it quickly and comments are more than welcome.

Please except my apology and thanks in advance for any assistance.


______________________I call it searcher
# C shell script to search for pattern in file(s)
# in all files (argument 3- last)
# 

switch ($#argv)

	#If only the pattern is given:
	case 1:
		find . -type f \( -name '*' -o -name '.*' \) -print | xargs grep -n "$argv[1]"
		breaksw


	#If the directory and the patter are given.
	case 2:
		find $argv[1] -type f \( -name '*' -o -name '.*' \) -print | xargs grep -n "$argv[2]"
		breaksw


	#If all the parameters are given:
	case 3:
		cd $argv[1]	# change to dir in argument 1
		foreach file ( $argv[3-$#argv] )
		find . -type f -name "$file" -print | xargs grep -n "$argv[2]" 
		breaksw

	#If no arguments are given
	default:
		echo "Usage:  searcher [directory] [pattern] [file(s)]"
		exit 1

endsw
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: rjf@lincroftnj.ncr.com (51351[efw]-Robert Feddeler(MT4799)T343)
Subject: Re: passwd
Organization: AT&T/NCR, Lincroft, NJ, USA
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 20:35:31 GMT

In article <1ikbatINNgl8@matt.ksu.ksu.edu> holland@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rich Holland) writes:
>Does anyone know how to make passwd behave non-interactively?  We've tried
>(echo newpass ; echo newpass ) | passwd, but it wants the passwords to be
>typed in from the keyboard.  I need to do this in a script, to set up new
>account passwords...
>
>-- 

passwd(1) writes and reads(!) on stderr (file desc 2).  Just because it can,
I suppose.  I didn't actually try it, but something like this might work:


(echo newpass ; echo newpass ) | passwd 2<&0


bob.				| Heap big trouble in the land of plenty.
Were these more than just my opinions, they would have cost a bit more.
From: csc5840@hertz.njit.edu (Sekhar Chitti)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: DOES THIS NEWSGROUP HAVE A FAQ ?????
Date: 11 Jan 93 19:10:45 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

Hi Netters,

I would like to if this newsgroup has a FAQ just like
other newsgroups? If it has one, is it available on any
anonymous ftp sites? Thanks.

Sekhar
From: markp@adsi.homecare.com (Mark Parr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: rlogin - how to pass data to
Keywords: rlogin
Date: 6 Jan 93 15:07:11 GMT
Organization: Application Data Systems, Inc.

We handled a similar problem by attaching what we wanted to pass to the TERM
variable before calling rlogin and then taking it off on the remote machine
when we got there......

e.g.

local:
TERM=ib3151|<info>
rlogin host

remote:
INFO=`getinfo_from_term`
TERM=`getterm_from_term`


I hope the above example is not too cryptic (but it's early and the caffeine
hasn't set in yet.....)

Mark


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.next.sysadmin
From: dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu (David Meyer)
Subject: monitoring a UPS from a serial port
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 01:49:29 GMT


I'm planning on buying an APC Backup-UPS 600 to use with my NeXT
computer, and I could use some advice on setting it up so that my
machine will shut down cleanly if the UPS battery runs low.  The UPS
I'm looking at has a output port which can signal that the battery is
running low, but I'm not sure what kind of wiring I'd need to do in
order to use it.

If anyone who has had experience doing this sort of thing with this
UPS, I'd really appreciate knowing how you did it.  If you haven't
used this particular UPS but still have a pretty good idea how such
things work, I'd be grateful if you'd send me e-mail so I can ask you
for help if I have problems.

		Many thanks,
			Dave

-- 
David M. Meyer                             Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
dmm0t@rincewind.mech.virginia.edu          University of Virginia
NeXTmail ok
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: sgccses@citec.oz.au (Stephen Spence)
Subject: Swap - how much at a given point in time ?
Organization: CITEC
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 00:59:01 GMT

I need to know how much swap is being used at a given point in time.

Machine - MIPS 2000 running 4_52

Thx

Stephen
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From: jos@bull.nl (Jos Vos)
Subject: Re: ghostscript/HP Laserjet implementation
Organization: Bull, P.O. Box 22859, NL-1100 DJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 06:41:11 GMT

gross@maxwell.ucsc.edu (Mike Gross) writes:

>   I'm administering a Sparc SLC running SunOS 4.1.1, and I have an HP
>Laserjet 2 with a postscript cartridge. The problem is that the postscript
>cartridge has a few annoying incompatibilities. To try to get around these,
>I would like to run the HP in its normal PCL mode, and use ghostscript to
>interpret postscript commands. ....

I might be a solution, but...

-  Do you have the Adobe Type 1 fonts that are supported by your PS
   cartridge? GS only has bitmap look-alikes of those fonts and you
   really need the original fonts then (which you can buy as Adobe Type
   manager and its accompanying Plus Pack).

-  The needed time to transfer one PS page to the printer will increase
   dramatically, because you'll use (compressed) bitmaps now.

-- 
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