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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: TCP loopback patch
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 02:57:05 GMT

Does anyone have experience with patch 100584-02?  Like many patches,
it's difficult to determine from the description whether I need to
install it.  What might trigger this system freeze?  How is the
loopback interface involved?  How would I recognize this type of freeze?
Here's an excerpt from the README:

Patch-ID# 100584-02
Keywords: tcp loop using loopback and BSD4.2 keepalive
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1;4.1.2;4.1.3: system freezes using loopback interface,BSD4.2 keepalive
Date: 22-Oct-92

SunOS release: 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3

Topic: tcp loop using loopback+keepalive

BugID's fixed with this patch: 1053503 + BSD4.2 keepalive

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun4c sun4m sun4

Patches which may conflict with this patch: 100303

Problem description:

        Under certain conditions the tcp code gets in a loop
        and continuously sends acks, when using the loopback
        interface this freezes the system.

        Also BSD4.2 keepalive packets are handled with this
        patch.


-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-
From: fetrow@biostat.washington.edu (David Fetrow)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: PC-NFS + NCSA telnet
Date: 29 Dec 1992 21:02:30 GMT
Organization: Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Univ. of Wash.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sulu.biostat.washington.edu

 (For mostly powers-that-be reasons) I need to run NCSA telnet along with
PC-NFS 4.0a under MS-DOS 5.0. It has to run native, with it's usual packet
drivers, because we need to run a unique version.

 There is the excellent pktd40a.sys "shim" that works very well but what
I can't get is PC-NFS and NCSA-telnet to BOTH work reliably. Could someone
who knows what they are doing drop me a line?
-- 
   -dave   fetrow-		INTERNET:	fetrow@biostat.washington.edu
   				BITNET:		fetrow@uwalocke
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: garvin@cfd.mae.ncsu.edu (Michael Garvin)
Subject: NeWSprint 2.0 problems (xnews won't start)
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:11:59 GMT

	Having just upgraded to SunOS 4.1.3 I decided to install NeWSprint 2.0.
Unfortunately, that wasn't in NeWSprint's plan...  I did not load SunView or
OpenWindows since we're an X shop now, so I installed the SPARCprinter drivers
and the small OpenWindows off the CD and called for the font password.  But
when I try to print something I get:

 ld.so: Undefined symbol: _rl_null
 /usr/NeWSprint/printer_classes/SPARCprinter/C/ps/npcomm.T: news server
      wouldn't start

I do have $OPENWINHOME defined and the LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to $OPENWINHOME/lib:
/usr/lib.  Has anyone seen this error, or do I need to (gasp) install SunView?
Thanks for any help.
-- 
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Mars Mission Research Center				(919) 515-5250 [Voice]
North Carolina State University				(919) 515-7968 [FAX]
From: sasurguine@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: rdist on Sun IPX
Date: 31 Dec 92 11:42:54 GMT

Hi Netters:

I'm looking for Docs/Info on rdist.  I have a network which is currently
running NIS.  From what little I know about rdist, I have made the following
assumptions:

1) It could provide my users with more transparency 
2) Could leave us with more bandwidth ( Always a BIG plus )

Also I am trying to install rdist on an IPX, and am currently having trouble
doing so.  SO would any of you who have already installed rdist on Sun
platforms please E-mail how you tweaked the Makefile.

All info on this subject is greatly appreciated.

--Scott 

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9696 comp.unix.solaris:431
From: rob@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Rob Matheson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Solaris 2.1 License Conditions
Date: 23 Dec 92 17:35:33 GMT
Organization: Marconi Instruments Ltd., Longacres, St. Albans, UK
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4

I have just received our Solaris 2.1 CD, and it seems to have a shrink-wrap
license with a new condition - well not one I've seen before.

It goes like this:

License to Develop. In the event that the customer desires to develop software
programs which incorporate portions of Software("Developed Programs"), the
following provisions apply, to the extent applicable. Developed programs are
to be OPEN LOOK(R) compliant and have an application programming interface that
is the same as that of Software. ... (continues)

[the term 'Software' refers to the Solaris 2.1 software as supplied]

Is this an attempt by Sun to force users, via the license conditions, to
develop only for the OPEN LOOK environment, rather than, for example, Motif.
Virtually all software developed for the Sun platform will incorporate the
Sun libraries, and will therefore come under this condition.

What does it mean by OPEN LOOK(R) compliant ? How is this legally determined ?

Has anyone else got any ideas on this ?

Rob. Matheson
rob@gec-mi-at.co.uk

** The views expressed are mine and not necessarily those of my employer **
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.wanted
From: higgins@mp.cs.niu.edu (Greg Higgins)
Subject: Systems Manager Wanted
Organization: Northern Illinois University
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 04:57:11 GMT


     Ad to appear in the Chicago Tribune
         on Sunday, January 3, 1993


The Department of Mathematical Sciences is seeking
a Computer Systems Manager for a UNIX network of
over 30 workstations, supporting faculty teaching
and research.  The position requires supervisory,
leadership and communication skills, as well as a
Masters degree in Computer Science and mathemati-
cal experience at the baccalaureate level.  The
applicant should have extensive knowledge of the
UNIX operating system, including experience with
network management, software installation, and
programming in C and FORTRAN.  If qualified, send
your resume, including salary history and the
names of three references, to: 
     Professor William Blair, Chair, 
     Department of Mathematical Sciences,
     Northern Illinois University, 
     DeKalb, IL 60115 
by January 18, 1993.  EO/AAE

E. Gregory Higgins, ex-Systems Manager, <higgins@math.niu.edu>

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Printing from Sun to Mac LaserWriter
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 22:00:12 GMT

In article <168CD7A8A.M21520@mwvm.mitre.org> M21520@mwvm.mitre.org writes:
>Our office has an Ethernet LAN of approximately 60 Macs, 6 Mac LaserWriters, &
>one Sun workstation.  We would like to print to the existing LaserWriters from
>the Sun.  Being new to the Sun admin world, I am seeking the wisdom of the
>net.
> 
>Can I simply edit the /etc/printcap file with parameters for the LaserWriters?
>Do we need special software to do this?  Thanks in advance for any help!
> 
Alas, there's usually a little more to it than that.  How are your
LaserWriters currently connected to your Macs?  Via EtherTalk?  There
are usually two main ways of doing what you want to do-- either buy a
Gatorbox from Cayman (sp?) systems, which allows Unix lpd requests to go
through to the Laserwriter, or put Apple's A/UX Unix on one of your
Macs, and make it a Unix print server.  We do it the latter way, but
then we already had A/UX. 
-- 
Marc Fraioli
mfraioli@grebyn.com	        	(So I'm a minimalist...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
Subject: Re: SunPro/Tech software licensing...
Reply-To: elling@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 04:25:05 GMT

I've been meaning to put together a critique of SunPro's 
SunTech_License scheme used in their compilers.  One 
particularly nice feature is that, by default, your compile
will be queued if no license is currently available.  This
is far superior to being unceremoniously tossed out on your
keester because no license was available like *many* other
programs do.

---
 Richard Elling                          Manager of Network Support
 Auburn University                       Engineering Administration
 richard.elling@eng.auburn.edu   KB4HB [44.100.0.72]  (205)844-2280
 Type-5 keyboard survival: xmodmap -e "keysym BackSpace = Delete"
From: gplan@cs.umb.edu (George Planansky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: re: Delayed Shipping of Sparc 10/41
Date: 23 Dec 92 19:06:22 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.sys.sun.hardware
Organization: HMass, Boston MA

In article <1992Dec22.175337.2620@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> ronis@onsager (David Ronis) writes:

  I recall reading something about Sun sweetening the pot for their
  delayed Sparc 10's; specifically, they were going to ship 2-processor
  versions to those who purchased model 41's.

  We've ordered several 41's and a 54 server.  Sun Canada now tells us
  that the 41's won't be shipping till March and the 54 will be even
  later.  Originally we were promised the 41 in September and the 54 by
  March.  In the mean time, we've received sparc-2's with the
  understanding that they would be swapped for the new machines when
  ready.  Moreover, we wouldn't have gone with sun if we were going to
  be without any machines for the better part of a year.

  When I spoke with my rep. at sun about the 2-processor deal, he told
  me that this applied only to people who had never received any
  machine.  Is this correct?  If so, it stinks!

I AGREE! I've heard of "vapor-ware" before, but Sun's games take the
cake.  We were promised September, then December, and now March.

Does anyone know if ANY 10/41's have been delivered?  I want to
know if Sun is playing favorites with e.g. DOD.

Tim Havel
havel@ptolemy.med.harvard.edu
From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: why does an 6000 ft exabyte tape give 2.3Gb capacity?
Date: 2 Jan 93 18:21:25 GMT
Organization: cic

andy@ie.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun) writes:

>Hi Everyone,

>I know I am missing something, but I don't know what it is and will
>appreciate your help.

>I know for a fact (from the dump(8) man page) that a 2.3Gbyte 8mm
>Exabyte tape has a length of 6,000 feet and a density of 54,000 bits/inch.
>What I don't understand is WHY 6,000 feet with 54,000 bits/inch would give
>2.3Gbyte?

>54000 bits x 12 inch x 1 byte x  1 kbyte   x   1 Mbyte  x  1 Gbyte  x 6000 feet
>      ----   -------   ------   ----------   -----------  ----------
>      inch    1 foot   8 bits   1024 bytes   1024 kbytes  1024 Mbyte

>= 0.45Gbyte 

>Where does the extra factor of 5 come from?

You are probably referring to this example:

		  2.3-GByte 8mm tape:             dump dsb 54000 6000 126

This computes like this:

6000 ft x 12 in/ft = 72000 in
54000 bpi is 54000 *byte* per inch, as dump assumes a 9-track tape
	when the 'c' is missing.
54000 byte/in * 72000 in = 3888000000 byte, or 3.62 GB

Where did the remaining 1.32 GB go to?

Into the "inter record gaps". Dump assumes that the drive will write
an IRG after each block of data. At a block length of 126*512, or 63 kB,
this accounts for about 2200 pseudopods, excuse me, pseudo-ft.
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From: sasurguine@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: NIS error
Date: 30 Dec 92 17:44:33 GMT

Need to understand why I get following error when trying to set up a
YPslave:  

The Master has been preconfigured for some time now.  I have just updated the
ypservers map on the master by the following method:

ypcat -k ypservers > /tmp/ypservers
vi /tmp/ypservers
cat /tmp/ypservers | makedbm - /var/yp/`domainname`/ypservers

when I attempt to ypinit my server using:

ypinit -s masterhost

I get the following complaint:

yp_dump error: can't bind to domainname : NIS internal error on Server or
Client.

If anyone is acquainted with this NIS error please notify me.

Thanks In Advance,

--Scott Surguine
--s3surgui@copper.denver.colorado.edu

--Happy 1993
From: makovsky@scsuc.ctstateu.edu (MAKOFSKY,STEVEN)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Help! Problems with SS10 Mod 30
Date: 22 Dec 92 23:04:00 GMT
Organization: Southern Connecticut State University - Computer Center
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hello all! Just got in our new SparcStation 10's, MOdel 30's. We are upgrading
from SS2's. Anyways, Since it was an upgrade, we needed to pull out the drives
from the SS2's, and plop em in the 10's. Now, I get a message "Cant find boot
device." Any suggestions? Didnt modify any of the jumpers on the drive that 
worked fine on the SS2. Thanks!
From: bmarlowe@ka.reg.uci.edu (Brett Marlowe)
Subject: Attaching wierd SCSI devices
Summary: How to use SCSI -> parallel converter
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Keywords: SCSI -> parallel converter how to access
Distribution: usa
Date: 21 Dec 92 20:20:57 GMT


I want to attach a parallel interface printer to my SparcStation 2
using a SCSI -> parallel converter.  Is there a driver available that
would allow me to access a scsi device with a character driver or will
something like the st driver work (sounds a little wierd)?

-Brett
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bri@athena.mit.edu (Brian D. Carlstrom)
Subject: Network Spooling to HP Printer
Organization: mit
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 07:09:35 GMT

Hi, i'm not really a sun user, but i'm trying to help a sysadmin
setup a HP printer on the network. we got a lot of suns on a net,
each spooling their print jobs to a single sun as a server. this 
server wants to throw the jobs via ethernet to an HP printer with
its own IP address. what do i need to setup on the server, assuming
the rest of the suns are correctly sending thier jobs to it.
(ie where do i say its a network printer, its ip address etc.
 /etc/printcap doesnt seem  to provide this facility.)

replys to address above (bri@pegasus.mit.edu) or to here,
but i dont regularly read this group so first preferend.

-bri
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca (Donald McLachlan)
Subject: Looking for resolv.conf related patch
Reply-To: don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
Organization: Communication Research Centre
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 15:10:58 GMT


I seem to remember hearing there is a patch for SunOS, so it will check multiple
nameserver entries in /etc/resolv.conf before giving up.

Unfortunatly I didn't save this info, and I cannot find it again now.  Nor can
I locate the appropriate patch in the INDEX I have found.

Does anyone know the number of this patch?


---
Donald McLachlan			e-mail	don@mars.dgrc.doc.ca
Communications Research Centre / DRL	office	613-998-2845
3701 Carling Ave.,			lab	613-998-2423
Ottawa, Ontario				fax	613-990-7987
K2H 8S2



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: eirik@elf.TN.Cornell.EDU (Eirik Fuller)
Subject: default route for diskless clients
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 04:43:46 GMT

Empirical observations have led me to the following conclusion:

The default route for a diskless client is provided by rpc.bootparamd,
and it chooses the first entry in the kernel's network routing table
which is on the same subnet as the client.  This can lead to some
silly choices, such as one end of a PPP link, or a gateway to an
optical network.  Both of those have happened, with no contortions on
my part.

If this conclusion about how the client gets its default route is
wrong, I welcome corrections.

It might seem irrelevant which default route is used, but what happens
if the default route (the silly choice, not the natural choice) goes
down?  Our networks have dedicated routers, which provide a natural
choice of default route.  Randomly choosing a host on the same subnet
as a default route does not seem like a sensible algorithm.

It might also seem trivial to fix this poor choice of default route.
However, if the client's /usr lives on another subnet, there is a
chicken-and-egg problem.  The route command, even if copied to the
root partition, still requires shared libraries, which become
inaccessible (but are apparently still necessary) after the routing
table is flushed.

The 4.1.3 /etc/rc.boot mentions a statically linked route command, but
I think that's just there to torment people like me.  Providing a
statically linked route command as part of the SunOS distribution
would be almost as useful as providing a dynamically linked mount
command.  Had the designers of /sbin been on the ball, there would
have been both static and dynamic versions of everything in there, and
route would have been there.

I could put libc.so.* into the client root partition, but that's gross.

I could decide against mounting /usr from another subnet, but that's
not what I want.

I could settle for the silly choice of default route, but that's not
what I want either.

What are my other options?  Is there some way to tell bootparamd what
route to use for each client, or some way to convince it to use the
default route, if applicable (i.e. if it's on the same subnet as the
client)?  Is there some way to rig the routing tables so that the
default route comes first?  Is there a SunOS patch somewhere that
provides alternate linkages of the commands that live (or should live)
in /sbin/?

Will I have to start beating up some lawyers so we can get the SunOS
source code we tried to get years ago?  Perhaps the next thing to do
is to look for a free implementation of the route command ...
From: jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: ideal filesystem size
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:50:40 GMT
Organization: Info Connections, West Los Angeles

Is there such a thing as an ideal filesystem size?  I assume you want
to keep it reasonably small so as to reduce track-to-track seek time
(though the FFS tries to keep things contiguous).  But then sometimes,
as with a partition for /usr/spool/news, you have to make it large.

So with a 1.2 gig disk, would one, say, do something like:
	
	/usr/spool	600MB
	/usr2		150MB
	/usr3		150MB
	/usr4		150MB
	/usr5		150MB  ?

Or is it better to have fewer and larger or more and smaller partitions?

Thanks...
-- 
Jim Gottlieb
E-Mail: <jimmy@denwa.info.com> or <attmail!denwa!jimmy>
V-Mail: +1 310 551 7702   Fax: 478-3060   Voice: 824-5454
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bo@eng.clemson.edu (Bo Slaughter)
Subject: Fine tuning SunOS
Reply-To: bo@eng.clemson.edu
Organization: College of Engineering, Clemson Univ.
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:54:18 GMT


Can anyone please point out some papers, books, ftp-able postscript papers, etc. that
might be of use to some trying to fine tune SunOS (server tuning especially).

Thanks!


---

                                ----
                  Bo Slaughter - Unix Administrator
          Engineering Computer Operations, Clemson University
From: mickel@OES.ORST.EDU (Paul M. Mickel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Using rdist instead of NIS/YP?
Date: 30 Dec 1992 17:00:56 GMT
Organization: Oregon Extension Service, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Or.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: oes.orst.edu

In article <1gor4nINNi6p@manuel.anu.edu.au> jdb@arp.anu.edu.au (John D. Barlow) writes:
>In article <1992Dec11.211922.12767@alf.cooper.edu>, hak@alf.cooper.edu (Jeff Hakner) writes:
>|> Anyone out there using rdist instead of NIS/YP for passwd serving?
>|> What are your experiences & recommendations?
>
>I use it.  Greatly recommended (ie: I haven't had any problems with it
>yet :-).  I have npasswd installed, and a script that tells users if they
>are on the wrong host to change the password (and tells them to run
>npasswd on the other host, and also warns them of the time delay in
>propagating the new passwd file).

We use it also for passwd management and other important files on our
systems. It is okay as long as you are not trying to do this with too
many installations. Since we have two, it is ideal for us. Another part
of the University uses NIS to manage over 20 Sun Workstations.

BTW, if the lastest version hasn't fixed the security hole in rdist (our
version had one), you can get the patch from ftp.uu.net.

-pmm

-- 
Paul M. Mickel			  	   Internet:mickel@oes.orst.edu
Sysadmin, Oregon Extension Service	   Corvallis, OR 97331
Database Programmer, Teledyne Wah Chang    Albany, OR 
Disclaimer: Neither employer has *ever* claimed any of my opinions.
From: dim@couette.ama.caltech.edu (Daniel I. Meiron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Caps Lock
Date: 23 Dec 92 15:59:57
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Distribution: comp
NNTP-Posting-Host: couette.ama.caltech.edu

I now see that my question regarding caps lock was not well posed.
In fact the caps lock and other led's light up just fine when one is 
using sunview, openwindows or even in full screen text mode. Our led's
don't light because we are running MIT X11/R4 without the proper patch that
controls the sparc keyboard led's. I will now set about to remedy this problem.
Thanks to all those who responded.

Dan Meiron
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9793 comp.sys.sun.hardware:6544
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
Date: 29 Dec 92 21:49:54 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I don't think it's that simple--anyone want to try this out and report
>back?  The previous posts on this have said that "minor changes" were
>required to the OS--and Per has shown that it *will* boot 4.1.3.  The
>prob is not booting, it's that minunix (or vmunix) then encounters
>a data exception error which is probably caused by the new mmu or fpu.

Actually, the MMU and FPU probably look very similar to those of other
modern SPARC implementations (SPARC Reference MMU, for example);
however, there may well be, for example, chip bugs in the microSPARC
chip that require workarounds different from those required by the
7C601/7C602/7C605 or the SuperSPARC chip, and there are probably also
some device driver changes needed for the "cloned" Z8530 and LANCE
implementations that are claimed to be in the I/O chips on the Tsunami
machines.
From: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU (Patrick L. Nolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Creating static linked executable from dynamic?
Date: 24 Dec 1992 22:03:16 GMT
Organization: Stanford University
Distribution: world
Reply-To: pln@egret0.Stanford.EDU
NNTP-Posting-Host: egret1.stanford.edu
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]

Henry Ferrara (HJFerrara@TASC.com) wrote:
:     Some admin out there must have run into a need to create a static
: linked executable from just the dynamic linked executable!?!?!
: 
This question gets asked every couple of months.  I've never seen
a reply.  Does anybody know anything about this subject?
Could this be put in a FAQ list somewhere?