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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.aix
Subject: RPC error using yppasswd
From: newsmgr@idiws1.idi.battelle.org
Date: 26 Aug 92 09:41:55 EST
Organization: IDI-Dublin

Hello, we have a NIS/NFS setup with a Sun workstation running 4.1.2 as 
the NIS server.

A user on a Rs6000 running AIX v3.2 with cumlative patch tape of 9 Aug installed
attempts a yyppasswd:

% yppasswd
Changing NIS password for willie
Old NIS password:
New password:
Retype new password:
RPC: Server can't decode arguments
couldn't change passwd

What does that RPC error mean? At the time the Sun system was slow due to 
heavy load I could do a yyppasswd with my own account.

Thanks!

Don
Don Hamparian - VAX/VMS Systems Support
              - Unix Systems Support Apprentice
              - Networking Systems Support

Information Dimensions. A subsidiary of Battelle Memorial Institute.

Phone 614.761.7445
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Disclaimer: My views in no way represent those of my employer.

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6046 comp.protocols.iso:1089
From: dclunie@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.protocols.iso
Subject: X25 Software for Sparc
Date: 2 Sep 92 10:38:04 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Her Master's Voice


I am interested in connecting my sparcstation to the local X25
service (in Australia Telecom calls it AUSTPAC). This sounded
like a good idea and the phone company rates are very reasonable.

So I looked in the SunExpress catalog and sure enough there was the
product I needed - SunLink X25 (or so I presume). Then I looked at
the price - $2,800 (USD) !

So much for a cheap, readily available WAN option.

Having had great success with the public domain ppp implementation
which is a marvelous program, I thought I would optimistically
ask around to see if there is a similar program to provide TCP/IP
over X25 connections ... I don't think I am quite up to writing my
own, being something of a network and kernel novice.

If anyone can help, or even suggest a more affordable commercial
product (without a change of platform !) I would appreciate it !

-- 
David Clunie (dclunie@itd.adelaide.edu.au)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mahesh@evb.com (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: sendmail.cf : host configuration error, why ?
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT Inc.
Affiliate-Of: EVB Software Engineering, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 02:04:47 GMT


I am having some problem in configuring sendmail.cf.
We have two solbournes. One of them is the YP server and the
other is the client,

192.9.3.1	gadget evb.com   # server
192.9.3.2       widget mailhost  #client and mailhost

The mailhost sendmail.cf reads,

Dj$m
DR uunet                   # we are on UUNET
CR uunet
Dmevb.com
Cm widget.evb.com evb.com gadget.evb.com

The server sendmail.cf reads,

Dj$w.$m
# major relay host
DRmailhost
CRmailhost
Dmevb.com
Cm widget.evb.com evb.com gadget.evb.com

I want the return address to be evb.com and not hostname.evb.com.
So I changed Dj$w.$m to Dj$m on the server and things get screwed
up. I saved the output in a file,


gadget:root % mail -v mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu
To: mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Subject: testing from gadget

dd
.
Cc:
Signing letter... //.signature: 4 lines
Sending letter ... mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu... Connecting to mailhost via ether
...
Trying 192.9.3.2...  connected.
220 evb.com Sendmail 4.1/SMI-4.1 ready at Mon, 31 Aug 92 14:46:22 EDT
>>> HELO evb.com
553 evb.com host name configuration error
>>> QUIT
221 evb.com closing connection
mahesh@amnese.eng.uab.edu... Service unavailable
Saving message in /usr/home/mahesh/dead.letter
/usr/home/mahesh/dead.letter... Sent
Saved letter in ~/dead.letter.
sent.


What should I do to avoid this configuration error ?
Please respond by email.

thanks


-- 

B.G. Mahesh
mahesh@evb.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
Subject: Re: Help! Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Organization:  Silicon Graphics, Inc.  Mountain View, CA
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 92 18:48:10 GMT

In <yvent.715155638@theseas> yvent@ntua.gr (Yiannis Ventikos) writes:
| >I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
| >release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?
| >Ruth Milner                          NRAO/VLA                  Socorro NM
| >Computing Division Head      rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu
| 
| They did not do what they said they were going to do.

What *who* said they were going to do?  I'd really like to track
down the source of this rumor (and that is all it is!).
--
Let no one tell me that silence gives consent,  |   Dave Olson
because whoever is silent dissents.             |   Silicon Graphics, Inc.
    Maria Isabel Barreno                        |   olson@sgi.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jimbys@cco.caltech.edu (James V. Bys)
Subject: How to GLOBALLY reduce data size?
Summary: How can the default process data segment size be reduced globally?
Keywords: data segment kernel patch
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 04:58:51 GMT

The default data segment size for most Suns is a little less than 512
Megabytes.  It seems unfair for one process to use up this much virtual memory,
especially when the system in question is running as a server.

If the assumption is correct that one process can grab 512 MBs of virtual
memory, then the question is how can the default limit be lowered
system wide?

(This question also has a further assumption that most programs will be
 reluctant to raise their default limit.  If this is not true the following
 comments still apply to lowering the maximum limit.)

The "setrlimit" system call applies only to the process that calls it and its
children.

There therefore appears to be only a few ways to enforce a new default
data size:

1) Reconfigure the kernel to have a new default size.

2) Change the code for the init process (the father of all processes, right?)
to call setrlimit.

3) Change all allowable shells in /etc/shells, and all daemons that will
   cause new processes to be formed to call setrlimit.

The only option that seems feasible without source is number 1).

But...

Here is what has been tried in building a new kernel:

 The file vmparam.h in /sys/k-arch was modified for the new reduced limit and
 the kernel rebuilt.

 Apparently the code that would be affected by vmparam.h is precompiled,
 however.

 That code appears to be in machdep.o (at least the symbols _dfldsiz and
 _maxdsiz are defined there).

 Sun technical support suggested patching vmunix to put a new value in
 _dfldsiz using adb but it appears that the contents of _dfldsiz does not 
 exist in the "vmunix" file.

 _dfldsiz is accessible in the running kernel but then the new value would 
 have to be patched every time the system is rebooted.

 In the running kernel _dfldsiz can be examined only in memory (/ command
 to adb, not ?).

 This might make sense if _dfldsiz is not a static and a value is loaded
 into it only when the system is running.

 It might also be that I just don't know how to find where its static value
 is stored in vmunix.

 Tech support's suggestion was to use the command
   
     _dfldsiz/W <new-hex-value>

 in adb to modify vmunix.  But would this command not just modify memory?

 Now I know next to nothing about running adb so it is possible that some
 other commands to adb would have been successful.

 An attempt was also made to search for the 32 bit value "1fffe000" 
 (the normal default data size value) in vmunix and machdep.o without success.

Any help here would be appreciated.  Please point out any misguided assumptions
and other methods for reducing the default size globally.

James V. Bys
E-mail address: jimbys@cco.caltech.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic)
Subject: Re: minimum swap space for SunOS 4.1.x?
Organization: Motorola Western MCU Design Center, Chandler Arizona
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 16:54:25 GMT

[synopsis: Why swap > physical?  What is swap? 48Mb swap OK for
64Mb RAM? Mkfile(8) swap = normal swap?]

Here's the scoop on swapspace, at least under 4.x of SunOS:

Total available virtual memory = swap space + program space

Every page of process virtual memory must have an assigned
"swap page" on disk SOMEWHERE.  For read-only pages (eg program
"text" space), this swap page is on the original disk where
the program resides.  For read-write pages, this will almost
always be swap (the exception is mmap()ed pages, if properly
configured).

This means that if I have a job I want to run, in which the
executable is, say, 1.5Mb and the requested data is 4Mb, I will
end up using 4Mb of my swap space for the data.

Limiting your machine to 48Mb swap space means that there is a chance
that you will underutilize your physical memory.

Swap files are equivalent to swap partitions, except that if they
are fragmented, performance will be much worse.

Looking at it rationally, it seems to me that with the advent of
4.1, swap CAN be less than physical since programs are not swapped
to swap partitions.  This means that if you know your applications,
you can tweak the swap space to optimize disk utilization.

The bottom line is, until you see processes dying from lack of swap
(usually malloc(3) failures or flat out cannot create process), your
swap space is adequate.

Personally, I run with GOBS of swap and stuff /tmp there.

							Mario

Mario Nigrovic <mario@wdc.sps.mot.com>		voice: (602) 821-4264
Motorola Western MCU Design Center		fax:   (602) 821-4058
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hsu@cs.hut.fi (Heikki Suonsivu)
Subject: Problem with locks, 4.1 3/60
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 11:39:36 GMT


Symptoms: I keep getting error 79, no record locks available, but no
program seems to keep them (ofiles shows no locks)?

Any idea?

Support mail address for sun?

-
Heikki Suonsivu, T{ysikuu 10 C 83/02210 Espoo/FINLAND,
hsu@{otax.tky.hut,cs.hut,clinet}.fi  +385-0-8031121
/G=Heikki/S=Suonsivu/O=hut/OU=cs/PRMD=Inet/ADMD=Fumail/C=FI,
mcsun!hutcs!hsu, riippu SN, Email preferable.
From: brossard@siisun.epfl.ch (Alain Brossard EPFL-SIC/SII)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problem with securenets patch 100482-02
Date: 25 Aug 92 16:10:23 GMT
Reply-To: brossard@sic.epfl.ch
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne

In article <1992Aug25.105613.12933@unibi.uni-bielefeld.de>, malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl) writes:
|> 
|> We haven't installed the patch yet. Does anyone out there have experience
|> with it in a heterogenious environment ( ultrix 4.x, aix 3.2, NextOS )?
|> We have a sun as NIS master, one NeXT and several suns as NIS slaves.

    As long as all the servers are protected (meaning, for now, all Sun's)
then you'll have no problems.  Otherwise, any crackers will be able to
capture your password file from the non-protected server.  Which is
the case right now anyway.

-- 

Alain Brossard, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne,
	SIC/SII, EL-Ecublens, CH-1015 Lausanne, Suisse, +41 21 693-2211
brossard@sic.epfl.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: olsenc@milton.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Subject: HELP!  Repartitioning SUN0424 didn't work out!
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 00:42:53 GMT

Hello Sun fans:

I am having a small glitch in my disk repartition, and hopefully someone
else out there knows what really is going on.

I plan on using Mentor Graphics and must change the swap to 150MBytes.
So, I used dump to save my three partitions:

/, /usr, and /home

Then, I booted off CDROM and then miniroot so that I didn't have problems
unmounting the local disk.  After running format (and then selecting
the "partition" section, I changed the disk partitions on "g" and "h".
The idea was, since I mounted another disk for user files (/home/users)
that I was going to steal all my space from /home.  This was not the
case:

See here my entries in format.dat:

partition = "SUN0424_PREINSTALL" \
        : disk = "SUN0424" : ctlr = SCSI \
        : a = 0, 33120 : b = 46, 65520 : c = 0, 828720 : g = 137, 288000 \
        : h = 537, 442080

partition = "SUN0424_VLSI" \
        : disk = "SUN0424" : ctlr = SCSI \
        : a = 0, 33120 : b = 46, 300240 : c = 0, 828720 : g = 463, 288000 \
        : h = 863, 207360

The VLSI entry was the one I made.  As you can see, I tried to maintain
the size of /usr.  I don't know how intelligent format is in the case
of a mistake when you specify the incorrect starting cylinder.

After running newfs on the g and h partitions, I noticed that I lost 20Megs
off of /usr!  I didn't understand how this could be.  It is possible that
I made a mistake.  Here's the entries from two different machines:

The original looked something like (arrows are my notes):

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a              15487    3242   10697    23%    /
/dev/sd0g             155015  107366   32148    77%    /usr  <- note
/dev/sd0h             187463   33857  134860    20%    /home

And now it looks like (dings denote problems):

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/sd0a              15487    3062   10877    22%    /
/dev/sd0g             135183  106774   14891    88%    /usr  <- ding! ding!
/dev/sd0h              97327      89   87506     0%    /home

I am troubled.  Please let me know if there's anything that I might be
doing wrong.

Thanks.

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olsenc@u.washington.edu

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: 14.4k modem on Sun 4/380
From: hliao@zeus.calstatela.edu (Henry Liao)
Date: 27 Aug 92 13:11:51 PDT
Distribution: world
Organization: Cal State University, Los Angeles
Keywords: high speed modem, sun, communication

	Here is a query to the wisdom of Sun administrators on the net.
I've connected a 14.4k data/fax modem w/ V.{32,32bis,42,42bis} and MNP2-5
on a Sun 4/380 running 4.1.2.

Question 1:
How should I configure /etc/{ttytab,gettytab} for the optimal throughput?
I tried 'Auto-baud' and various baud rates on the Sun, but my 386PC w/ a
similar 14.4k modem (supports all compression protocols) always negotiate to
14.4k.  It doesn't matter if the speed is set to 9600-57600 on either ends.

Question 2:
Is there any public domain fax software that support CCITT G3 fax?

Thanks in advance.

-Henry Liao					o
California State University, Los Angeles	 )>
Networks & Distributed Systems Group	     ___./]___
VOICE:	(213) 343-4537, 343-4530	hliao@calstatela.edu
FAX:	(213) 343-4575			hliao@csula.bitnet
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:5833 comp.sys.sun.misc:3909
From: sharon@ocf.berkeley.edu (Sharon Roslyn Su Yin Oh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
Subject: Tar: Portable from SunOS to AIX?
Date: 25 Aug 1992 19:44:03 GMT
Organization: U. C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.berkeley.edu

Hi,

This may sound like a silly question, but is tar portable from SunOS to AIX?
i.e. if I tar something onto tape on a Sparc, can I retrieve it on an RS/6000?
Actually, I tried that and gave the tape to someone using an RS/6000.  He says
that the tarfile looks fine, but when he untars it he only manages to retrieve
50MB out of the 62MB.  Anyone have any idea why this is happening?

p.s: please send replies to sharon@rose.lbl.gov and don't hit reply (the mail-
server is down for this account)

Thanks in advance,
Sharon :)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: norm@bnr.ca (Norm MacNeil)
Subject: Re: /etc/ttytab
Originator: norm@bcrks122
Keywords: secure
Reply-To: norm@bnr.ca
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd.
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 20:10:46 GMT


In article <1992Sep1.151437.21804@meaddata.com>, mah@meaddata.com (Michael Henderson) writes:
> When I remove the secure entry from the console line in the ttytab file, or 
> change secure to insecure, the workstation requires a password when
> booting single user. This is what I want it to do, but this also causes
> root logins on the console not to be allowed. Is there a way to have a
> password required upon a single user boot, but still allow root login 
> on the console when up muli-user? I have left the secure option on for 
> the ptys so root can login remotely once up multi-user.

Check out the man pages on eeprom; it contains such options as

  secure=command

which restrict which commands can be done with rebooting.

  Norm.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jimh@pacdata.com (Jim Harkins)
Subject: Changing the IP addresses
Organization: Pacific Data Products
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:12:36 GMT

Well, our parent company went ahead and got us our very own IP address.
I'm going to switch my network over this weekend to use the new IP numbers
and was wondering if anybody could give me a list of things I need to
change.  All I can think of is the hosts file and possibly my mail map
entry (the foo@pacdata.com thing).  I just got this news 5 minutes ago and
haven't had time to think about it yet, but I'd sure hate to miss
something.

Thanks.

jim

-- 
Lawyers Creed:  What's mine is mine, what's yours is negotiable.
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Jim Harkins                         [ucsd|uunet]!pacdata!jim
Pacific Data Products               jim@pacdata.com
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From: berliner@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Brian Berliner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: backup copilot trying to access wrong tape drive
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:12:17 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.

In <1992Sep2.143453.16444@csoc.COM> benny@csoc.COM (Benny Clark) writes:
>I am running backup copilot on a SS2.  I have two tape drives.

>1.  rst0   1/4" QIC 150
>2.  rst1   Exabyte 2.3 gig

>I want to backup a few filesystems to rst1.  I have set it up to
>do this and it works fine except for one small problem.  When
>I come into the office in the morning, opermon is telling me that
>ait can't write to rst0.  I know that it can't write to rst0.  There
>is no tape in there.  I do not want to write to rst0.  The backup
>did write correctly to rst1, but why does it try to write to rst0?

Check your dumpex configuration file.  If you included both tape devices,
then Backup Copilot will try to use both tape devices.  If you only have
/dev/nrst1 listed in your configuration, then please send me a copy of your
configuration file.

Bottom line:  Backup Copilot will only attempt to use the tape drives that
it is told to use.  Anything that doesn't agree with this statement is a
serious bug.

	-Brian
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rauletta@sitevax.gmu.edu (R. J. Auletta)
Subject: ypserv not responding (Possible DNS failure)
Summary: Do we need a patched in.named?
Originator: rauletta@sitevax.gmu.edu
Organization: Electrical and Computer Engineering
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 18:59:53 GMT


We have a single Sparc 4.1.2 and in order (we hoped) to avoid
the NIS/DNS fiasco, is running both its own ypmaster
and is a secondary nameserver for the local domain.

We are having a regular problem with
     "NIS: server not responding for domain "%s"; still trying"

which requires a re-boot to correct.

It appears that the problem occurs when the authoritative nameserver
for the DNS domain is unavailable, and we suspect failure of
a zone xfer is the cause. (Only guessing here as that seems to be
the cause, since once the yp goes west game over.)

Is this a known problem. Don't see Sun patch the directly relates,
but I remember there being a discussion about sun named failing
when it was unable to return a query or some such.

BTW, is there a way to determine the active ypmasters for a particular
NIS domain? Emulate the broadcast that ypbind generates?


-Rich Auletta
From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: automounter vs auto.master
Date: 1 Sep 1992 19:26:59 -0500
Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.utexas.edu

How does one get the automounter to notice that you have changed
auto.master?

As best I can tell, you have to actually kill and restart the
automounter (yuck).  Is this really true?  If so, it orphans any
existing auto-mounted file systems, so they are not unmounted until
the next reboot.  So you may as well reboot the machine anyway.
Please tell me it ain't so.

Thanks
Fletcher
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: mysterious console message (FAQ alert ?)
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:53:29 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>sun vmunix: redirect (0) to f8160ed0
>
>A fd f8160ed0 does not show up in pstat -f .

It's not a file descriptor; on SPARC machines, it's the address of a
data structure on the stack that contains an IP address.  (Yup, somebody
forgot that you can't just pass a 4-byte structure to "printf" and
expect its 4 bytes to be printed in hex; the code came from Berkeley,
and you can get away with that on VAXes and Tahoes, and on most
machines, but the Sun calling sequence on SPARC doesn't support it.)

To quote the comment from the relevant code in the 4.3-tahoe
"netinet/ip_input.c":

	/*
	 * If forwarding packet using same interface that it came in on,
	 * perhaps should send a redirect to sender to shortcut a hop.
	 * Only send redirect if source is sending directly to us,
	 * and if packet was not source routed (or has any options).
	 * Also, don't send redirect if forwarding using a default route
	 * or a route modfied by a redirect.
	 */

The number in parentheses is the type of redirect being sent out; 0 is
ICMP_REDIRECT_NET (see "/usr/include/netinet/ip_icmp.h").
From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Mounting 4.1.2 filesystem on 4.1.1 system
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 31 Aug 92 23:02:08 GMT


We have a situation here that necessitates mounting a 4.1.2 filesystem
under SunOS 4.1.1.  Does anyone know of any problems in doing that?
We couldn't find anything in the release notes, but I figured it
wouldn't hurt to ask.


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