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From: weinberg@sho.Eng.Sun.COM (Glenn Weinberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun Solaris 1.x on new Sun Classic
Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:42:06 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Distribution: world
Reply-To: weinberg@sho.Eng.Sun.COM
NNTP-Posting-Host: sho

In article 1ji0gvINNc90@gap.caltech.edu, jack@ccsf.caltech.edu (Jack Stewart) writes:
>In article <1993Jan19.152059.2146@searchtech.com>, kelly@searchtech.com (Kelly Thompson) writes:
>> 
>> Has anyone been able to load Solaris 1.x on the new Classic ?
>
>My understanding from the Sun Engineer at the local sales office is
>that Sun modified the Boot Prom on the Sun Classic and LX so that they
>would only run Solaris 2.X or higher.

Another urban legend born :-(

Stop dumping on the poor PROM engineers.  The PROM has absolutely nothing
to do with whether a system can run Solaris 1.x or 2.x.  I should know.
I manage the PROM group.

>I would yell at Sun about this stupidity.  If enough people complained
>perhaps they would offer a PROM kit.  This "enhancement" of the boot
>prom has not altered my timetable for moving to Solaris 2.X but it has
>cost Sun some sales (from our department - there is no point in buying
>a bunch of machines that will sit around for 6+ months).  If your Sun
>sales rep. neglected to mention the Solaris 1.X incompatibilty problem
>perhaps you could get Sun to take the machines back.

If you want to yell at Sun, fine, but please yell about the right thing.
The reason that Solaris 1.x doesn't run on the Classic and LX is because
we didn't do a new release of Solaris 1.x that was ported to those platforms.
(Explains why it doesn't work, eh? :-)  You can get PROM upgrades until
you're blue in the face and it won't matter.  What you need is a new OS.

This is no different than any other new hardware platform we've released in
the past.  You can't run 4.1 on a SPARCstation 2.  You can't run 4.1.2
on a SPARCstation 10.  The only difference is that the LX and Classic
happen to require a new major release (which you happen not to like) rather
than a new minor release.

	Regards,

	Glenn
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From: rse@angle.sub.org (Ralf S. Engelschall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: How to Disable LPR Mails?
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:22:12 GMT
Reply-To: rse@angle.sub.org
X-Newsreader: Arn V1.00


  How can I disable (or redirect to _one_ user or file) the many mails
the LPR daemon under SunOS 4.1.3 sends to our users every time the
printer is not immediately ready to satisfy the jobs?  The users mail
folders get messed up with these mails and really important mails will
be ignored between such garbage. Any hint? syslogd? printcap?

                                            Ralf S. Engelschall
                                            rse@angle.sub.org
From: mchiarin@jade.tufts.edu (Marc Chiarini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help for building X11R5 in Solaris 2.1
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:21:38 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Tufts University CS Department

I've been trying to build X11R5 under Solaris 2.1, but I'm having a really
hard time.  I'm trying to do this on a Sparc 10 using the latest revision
of gcc.  Has anyone successfully done this?  Can you give me some
guidelines?  I can't use the att.cf configuration file for System V because
there are certain include files missing from the system.  I also haven't
been successful using the sun.cf file with just a change of operating
system version numbers.  Oh, an while I'm on the subject, why does
imake/make continue to use cc, even when I specify HasGcc in the site.def
file.  Does it have something to do with shared libraries?  I would be
grateful for any information.  Thank you.

Marc Chiarini
Tufts University
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Thomas.Tornblom@nexus.comm.se (Thomas Tornblom)
Subject: Re: 386i RAM/frame buffer on (a sun3/480s??) In article 7826@athena.mit.edu, zhu@athena.mit.edu (Erin Zhu) writes:
Organization: Communicator Nexus AB
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 14:17:40 GMT

Don't know about the RAM but the board will not fit.

The sun386i doesn't have a VME bus. It has an AT bus and some sun specific
localbus.

Thomas
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From: chinson@chin.cs.ucla.edu (Chinson Yi)
Subject: ypbind security problem
Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 93 19:03:33 GMT


We ran into ypbind security problem where one of our NIS server was trying
to fetch NIS map from bogus NIS server.  I guess this is a know risk,
but I thought there would be better protection against that.   I wonder
if anyone came across such problem, and how you went about solving the
problem.  If you have any suggestion, I would like to hear it from you.

Thanks


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu (Robert I. Benett)
Subject: Net programming
Organization: U of Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 02:03:25 GMT


I have serial data I need to get from one site to another.  Both sites
are on Internet (actually coordinate campuses of the same UNIV) and have
plenty of sun workstations.

Easiest (cheapest) thing that comes to mind is read serial data on the source
end with one Sun and write it at the other (destination) end with another
sun.  A C program using RPC's may be a good way to do it.

Now my question:

	Has anyone else done this??

	Would they be willing to "give away" the code??



Thanks.


Bob Bennett
bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu
(218) 723-4914
From: maslen@gday.Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Maslen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: DNS & Solaris 2.1
Date: 27 Jan 1993 04:11:08 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gday

If there's a Solaris 2.x FAQ list, this is probably a candidate...

grk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Glenn R. Kronschnabl) writes:
>I am trying to get only DNS running on a SPARC 2 running Solaris 2.1.  From
>the documentation "SunOs 5.1 Administering NIS+ and DNS", I quote:

>...copy /usr/lib/libsockdns.so into /usr/lib/libsocket.so ...

>Where the heck is libsockdns.so?  I can't find it anywhere.  Its
>not in /usr/lib!

The "Setting up DNS clients" chapter of that manual is egregiously out of
date.  Yes, there's a bug filed against it.  The correct procedure is more
like:

      -	follow the section headed "Creating resolv.conf"
	(though you probably knew all that anyway),

      -	ignore the sections headed "Modifying netconfig" and
	"Copying the dynamic sockets library",

      -	instead, whack on /etc/nsswitch.conf;  it's probably easiest 
	to start with the sample file "/etc/nsswitch.files" and change 
	the entry for "hosts" to something like

				hosts: files dns

      -	processes that have already read /etc/nsswitch.conf won't see your
	changes until they're restarted.  If you care, the crude but effective
	approach is to reboot.

>Glenn R. Kronschnabl
>UT-Austin (but an Aggie at heart!)
>I didn't do it, you didn't see me do it, you can't prove anything!

>Internet: grk@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu

Thomas Maslen
maslen@eng.sun.com				My opinions, not Sun(Soft)'s
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Mortara.Inc <Mortara.Inc@mixcom.mixcom.com>
Subject: NFS on 2.1 w/ other S5
Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:46:12 GMT

I be having problem with Solaris 2.1 and NFS

Here is scenario

I am running Solaris 2.1 on an IPC connected to a Unisys s80 (old System 5
r3). When I try to mount a file system on the SUN from the Unisys I get error
messages on both machines SO:
	Unisys: mount: I/O error
		mount: cannot mount /dev/nfsd

	On SUN console:
		<hostname> NFS request from unprivileged port
		<hostname> nfs_server: weak authenticatio

Note 
	- that when running 4.1.2 in the SUN/IPC I was able to mount this way
	- I am able to mount a file system on the Unisys system from the SUN
	- the showmount command on the SUN tells me that the Unisys system has
	  mounted 
	- when I do a rup command on the SUN I get a RPC: program not registered 
	  error
	- I have tried the mountd with and without the -n option
	- root is only in 5 groups on the SUN

Needless to say SUN support/service has been unable to help (after waitng 
3 days for a response from them)


Please to help me... I'm desperate...me ... I desperate...
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Both, Motif and Openwin on a SPARC 2 ?
Date: 25 Jan 1993 04:49:50 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1993Jan25.032501.29270@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> hiren@mtu.edu (Hiren Shah) writes:
>i.e. can I run a motif application(with Motif style windwows) and 
>a openwin application(with openwin  style windwows) on the same display ?

You can run both applications simultaneously, and they will each provide
their normal interface within the application.  I.e. the application's
menus, buttons, and controls will be governed by the library used to build
that application.  However, you can only run one window manager, so you'll
have to choose which style of WM interaction you like.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: spp@surf.cis.ufl.edu (Stephen P. Potter)
Subject: Re: network talk
Keywords: network talk
Organization: The Department of Probable Possible Impossibilities
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 93 21:59:37 GMT

In article <1993Jan27.224154.15355@sunspot.noao.edu> mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu writes:
>I am looking for a network talk notifier that will notify users on all
>open sessions that a talk message has arrived.
>
>Anyone know of such a beast.
>
>Thanks
>Robert
>
I would like to know if anyone has such a beast that will pop up a message
on an Xterminal.  I often have 20 or 30 open shells, most of which are
iconified because they aren't currently in use.  Is there a beast that will
pop up a message like:  "foo@bar.foobar.edu requesting talk on foo.forbar.edu"
Kind of like a zephyr type thing maybe... has anyone written that into
zwgc?

Steve

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From: PVJQC@CUNYVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Slip crashes with "mbuf map full errors" on Suns
Date: 27 Jan 93 00:50:29 GMT
Organization: City University of New York/ University Computer Center


Hello Slip experts,

     I have gotten public-domain slip (Slip-4.0) working on the Sun4 and
Sun4c  over T3000 telebit modems.  I use kermit to dial out to a Sun4
and then invoke `sliplogin', get back to the Sun4c, suspend kermit and
invoke sliplogin.  The connection remains and works fine for a day or
2 and then takes both the systems down giving `mbuf map full' kind of
an error.  I had downloaded a patch called 100149-03 and applied on both
the machines hoping the problem would be taken care of.  IT does not help
apparently.  (This patch was obtained from the same site where the slip
distribution was kept).
Does any one know about this problem?  Is it something silly that I am missing
or so? I am using the serial port on the cpu board for slip connection( ttya)
  Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you very much.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mann@emma.la.asu.edu (Mark Mann)
Subject: Re: SEGV inside malloc() - This shouldn't happen!
Organization: Mars Observer TES Project, ASU, Tempe AZ
Distribution: na
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:11:25 GMT

In article <mike.727636808@sdd.comsat.com> mike@sdd.comsat.com (Mike Stennett) writes:
>  I am currently porting a program to a SparcStation 2 running SUN/OS 4.1.2.
>  The program is written in C, Pascal, and Fortran.  I am using all SUN 
>  compilers.  My problem is I am getting segmentation faults within malloc.
>  Now I have been writing C programs for 4 years and know that malloc should
>  never cause a segmentation faults.
>  [...]

I have found that malloc() will fail with a segmentation fault when you
trash its tables.  This usually happens when you write beyond the end
of an array.  You haven't written out far enough to cause a segmentation
violation yourself, but just far enough to make garbage out of malloc()'s
tables. So... next time you call malloc() and it tries to access the
garbage you created... SEGV or somesuch.

Hope this helps some.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jim@thor.albany.edu (SCHLEMMER JAMES A)
Subject: Anyone have any experience with biff not biffing?
Keywords: banner, login, message
Organization: State University of New York at Albany
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 18:28:05 GMT

Someone here is having troules with biff on a Sun 3 (I think) running 4.1.2.
I can't get biff to *not* work on any of my machines but recall having trouble
with it in the past.  It seems that it must be something on this particular
machine.  The fellow to which I refer is connected with a serial line going
to a Mac, although I don't see how that could make much of a difference.
He sets 'biff y' in his .login and sure enough the offering '% biff' is greeted
with the familiar 'biff is y'.  However, he is not being notified about the 
arrival of new mail.

Any advice appreciated.

Jim

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: brian@e-sys.com (Brian D. Decker)
Subject: Re: Security checker
Reply-To: bdecker@e-sys.com
Organization: E-Systems,University Center
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:18:00 GMT

In article 7343@ugle.unit.no, olafn@inbit.ibt.unit.no (Olaf F. Normann) writes:
>Hello netters!
>
>I wander if it exists any program or script which searches the filesystems
> for security "holes" (right owner of system files etc)
>
> Best regards 
> -olaf F. Normann

Yes, COPS (Computer Oracle and Password System) is available via anon ftp from
cert.sei.cmu.edu(128.237.253.5) in /pub/cops as cops.tar.Z.  According to the
documentation, "COPS is a static security checking tool that checks common 
procedural (non-bug) problems of a Un*x system.  It basically takes a snapshot
of a system, and then generates a report of it's findings."

Ive used it for about 3 months now with no problems.

Good Luck,
Brian

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pgreen@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Philip Green)
Subject: Client booting, timeouts
Organization: National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Socorro NM
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 16:40:22 GMT

The problem:
1 server(Auspex) with ~80 clients(all sun 4s).
When all the clients try to boot(after a power outage) bootparamd
on the server will consume ~70% of the cpu but few if any of the
clients boot. Their boot requests are timing out. 
Apparently bootparamd can not service the packets fast enough so each
of the following packets has already timeout by the time it is
serviced.

The temporary solution at this point is kill and restart bootparamd
if cpu utilization is high with no clients booting. 

Can the client timeout be changed by adjusting a parameter
within /tftpboot/boot.sun4c? Can anyone tell me how to do 
this? Or would it be better to change the queue size that
bootparamd works with so that it can service the requests
before they timeout?

I realize that there other workarounds such as not 
booting on power up etc.. but I would prefer fixing
the problem instead of working around it.


Thanks
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ltran@netcom.com (Linh C Tran)
Subject: PC-NFS 4.0 with Etherlink 3, success ?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:15:38 GMT

Howdy


Has any suceesfully used a Etherlink3 TP card for PC-NFS 4.0 ?  I kept
getting error of its failing to find a server.  I did checked the 
configuration of the card for RJ 45 connection.  It checks out fine.  Is
there something I've overlooked ?

Thanx in advance....

linh tran	ltran@netcom.com
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:10856 comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:915 comp.unix.admin:7266 alt.sources.d:1697
From: wisner@ftp.UU.NET (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,comp.unix.admin,alt.sources.d
Subject: resolv+ 2.1 available
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:41:33 -0500
Organization: Guest of UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net

Version 2.1 of resolv+, a modified resolver library, is now available.
To receive a copy, send a request to me, <wisner@uunet.UU.NET>.  After
about a week, I'll post the sources to alt.sources and make the package
available for anonymous FTP.

Features of resolv+ include:
	* configurable hostname lookups via DNS, NIS and the host table
	* ability to trim local domains from hostnames
	* ability to sort address lists to place local (same-subnet)
	  addresses first
	* anti-spoofing measures, similar to those in Sun's resolver
	  library, to help prevent rlogin/rsh break-ins

(And to those who've been waiting two or three months for this: sorry.
You just don't want to know about my life...)

Bill Wisner <wisner@uunet.UU.NET> Gryphon Gang Mountain View CA 94043
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From: betsys@cs.umb.edu (Elizabeth Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SS10 with no loaded OS
Date: 25 Jan 93 23:55:27 GMT
Organization: University of Massachusetts at Boston

I was just discussing this over on comp.sys.sun.something else. Lots
of us had this problem and sun's sales force has been loaning CD-ROMS,
at least to those of us who ordered and paid for systems with 4.1.3
supposed to be pre-installed.
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From: maslen@gday.Eng.Sun.COM (Thomas Maslen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SunOS 5.1 bug in readdir()
Date: 22 Jan 1993 06:58:37 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: gday

>    struct dirent {
>       ino_t           d_ino;          /* "inode number" of entry */
>       off_t           d_off;          /* offset of disk directory entry */
>       unsigned short  d_reclen;       /* length of this record */
>       char            d_name[1];      /* name of file */
>    };
 
>Unfortunately, when examining the structure after calling readdir,
>it appears that d_off was treated as a short since d_reclen begins
>2 bytes after d_off.
 
>Is this a known problem?
 
Is it possible that you compiled with the the native header files
(/usr/include) but then linked against the source-compatibility 
libraries in /usr/ucblib, thus getting the BSD version of readdir?
 
Thomas Maslen
maslen@eng.sun.com                              My opinions, not Sun(Soft)'s
Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 11:33:19 EST
From: <HRC@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Unknown ACU type

After I assigned the value of at to hayes in file
/etc/remote, the tip program showed the error message
,'unknown ACU type'.  Can any one give me any suggestion?
My workstation is a Sparcstation IPC the OS is 4.1.2.
Thanks!


Hai-Ru Chang
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: dump multi-filesystem on multiple tape
Date: 19 Jan 93 22:33:39 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ


>If you use a tape device which doesn't autorewind (like /dev/nrst0) you can
>simply do successive dumps.  For example, on an exabyte 8200, I might do:

He said "multiple tapes", though.  What happens when you hit EOT?  Dump
should act gracefully at EOT so that a dumb stacker or operator can just slap
in another tape and let it continue from where it left off.

Similarly, dump should detect when it's writing to stdout or a file, and
suppress what it thinks are tape changes.

I know of one vendor that added a -E flag to dump to accomplish this.
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From: ralphw@comm.mot.com (Ralph Warchol)
Subject: format.dat FAQ?
Reply-To: ralphw@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola LMPS STC
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 19:35:56 GMT

Does anyone know if there is an archive site which stores compilations of
format.dat entires? Please e-mail archive sites to ralphw@comm.mot.com

Thanks in advance,

	Ralph
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Questions/comments about csh
From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu
Date: 27 Jan 93 21:30:07 PST
Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University in Fresno

In article <16656@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>>csh on the Sun doesn't have a centralized csh.login file
>>that is run in addition to ~/.login and ~/.cshrc.
>
>Well, it doesn't under SunOS releases prior to 5.x; it does have one in
>5.x, though - "/etc/.login"; I think this may actually be a generic SVR4
>feature, not something Sun added.
>

Since source  code for csh is included in  BSD 4.3,  you can always get it and
modify it at your own taste.  Or if you  want more modern code, you can always
get tcsh ||  zsh. At  least the later does allow centralized profiles in /etc.
Personally I  don't like centralized files much because  they tend to do nasty
things to  one's terminal and  mess up rsh :(.  Why not  just  setting up  new
accounts with startup files that read default ones?

Of course this is not an answer to original question, but do you really want
bundled programs to be the best? ;O

Oleg