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From: root@admin.mport.COM (admin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Is there an SVR4 version of "top"?
Date: 8 Sep 92 18:00:58 GMT
Organization: Microport Inc., Scotts Valley, CA 95066 US of A

rvdp@cs.vu.nl (Ronald van der Pol) writes:
>mfrost@sword.eng.pyramid.com (Mark Frost) writes:

>:I have found that top (the program by William LeFebvre) is an extremely
>:useful utility to have.  It has come in handy on a number of occasions on
>:our BSD-based platform.

>:Unfortunately, I lack such a utility on our SVR4-based platform.  Has someone
>:done a port?  I started looking at what's involved and it's way beyond me.
------
>Dell did. See dell2.dell.com (143.166.224.14), directory sources/V2.1.
>Sources and binaries are included in their SVR4 port.

===================

I believe there is an SVR4 version out.  Microport also has an SVR4 version
of top.  Contact Microport support at support@mport.com if you  are interested
in a copy.


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duc@mport.com                                                  Scotts Valley, CA
root@mport.com                                                 408.438.8649
From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: DNS/named: Caching vs. Forwarding Server?
Date: 11 Sep 1992 01:28:01 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard) writes:

>The problem is that I don't understand quite the subtle 
>difference between the two.  What I desire is that when
>the DS-1 link is down that I will at least have minimal
>DNS for those hosts local to me, which would probably
>be in the cache.  (Ideally, I'd also like some way to force
>some list of hosts into the cache right at boot time so if
>the DS-1 link goes down 3 minutes later, I will have more
>than 2 hosts in the cache.)

How about setting yourself up as a primary name server, but put your entry
as the second name server in the resolv.conf file on all your machines.
This way it won't go around putting things in the cache left right and
centre.  Only if your normal name server fails a lookup.

You could put the local machines into a cache file.  named can be set up
with a cache file of DNS information to be cached at startup.

I don't know how well this would work and I'm not really in a position to
test it, so good luck and I hope it works.

Craig
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  University of Western Australia    Dept of Education (afternoon)
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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: epc1@quads.uchicago.edu (Merlin)
Subject: book about afs
Reply-To: epc1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 22:09:21 GMT


Is there a good book about AFS out there somewhere?
Thanks.
-- 
En Pum Cho					
University of Chicago Class of 1994
math & economics major
epc1@midway.uchicago.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: man
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 15:17:44 GMT

In article <me.0780@amiganet.chi.il.us> me@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney) writes:
>anyone know of a PD man package?  my new unix came without a man command. 
>(came without vi too)

What Unix was this? Sounds pretty stripped....

You might check the Linux sources for both; presuming you have a C compiler....

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        Everywhere she goes, people die.
From: andy_d@hyperdesk.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Pros/Cons: simple vs. fully-qualified name for workstation?
Date: 14 Sep 92 17:08:36 GMT
Reply-To: andy_d@hyperdesk.com
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Organization: HyperDesk Corporation, Westboro, MA


I've been elected as the guinea pig at our company to upgrade to a new
operating system revision (DG/UX 5.4.2, but I don't think it matters
that much w.r.t. my question).

It has been suggested to me that I name my workstation with a
fully-qualified name instead of a simple name, e.g. name it
"sweetjane.hyperdesk.com", instead of just "sweetjane".  In particular
the sendmail.cf file has a few comments in it recommending this,
although there is no justification for it.

One of my jobs as guinea pig is to write a recipe for everyone else in
my organization to make it simple for them to upgrade, so I want to get
this right before I recommend the fully-qualified approach to everyone.

I can think of two issues that might make the simple name preferable:

1) login scripts that check the host name via the 'hostname' command 
   won't work anymore.


2) if we change things around at a later time, so that my machine is
   part of domain devt.hyperdesk.com, my machine name will be
   misleading, and many not even be accessible (anybody know?).


What are the supposed advantages of a fully-qualified name?

Thanks for your help.

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From: jfh@rpp386.lonestar.org (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: adduser
Date: 8 Sep 92 23:46:08 GMT
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Austin, Republic of Texas

In article <me.07cq@amiganet.chi.il.us> me@amiganet.chi.il.us (Corey Sweeney) writes:
>My new unix system came without a adduser command.  Would anyone know where I
>could find a PD adduser command? 

Go get a copy of the Shadow Password Suite and compile the useradd, userdel
and usermod programs to work with your system configuration.  If your system
doesn't have /etc/shadow, you might want to wait a few weeks until the
patches which make Shadow work with /etc/passwd only come out.
-- 
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Ma Bell: (512) 251-2151            |  touch: everything they touch turns to
UUCP: ...!cs.utexas.edu!rpp386!jfh |  shit."
Domain: jfh@rpp386.cactus.org      |                  -- Jay Maynard
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: johnn@eskimo.celestial.com (John Navitsky)
Subject: Re: How bad is WordPerfect 5.1
Organization: =>ESKIMO NORTH (206) 367-3837 SEATTLE, WA.<=
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 17:56:47 GMT

In article <1992Sep10.010735.1200@openage.openage.com> gryphon@openage.openage.com (The Golden Gryphon) writes:
>brian@nds.com (Brian Dockter) writes:
>
>>Jeff@digtype.airage.com (Jeff Wasilko) writes:
>>: 
>>: A while ago, there was a very negative discussion of WordPerfect (maybe

[...]

>>I can best summarize our opinion of WP5.1 with one word:
>
>>	SSSSSSSLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!

[...]

>
>I know WP5.0 with WPTERM=gui_color is slower than molassas in winter, but
>I've seen WP51, and it is much better.  WP51 for UNIX isn't out yet, as 
>far as I know, but I only follow SCO versions.  I saw it at SCO Forum last
>month, and it looked fast and fine.

As I understand it (in my discussion w/WP) the Sun version is or has been 
shipping.  

Incidently, WP5.0 and Visual 603 (vt220 emulation + graphics) worked very
well on our Sun 4/380.  It was very nice to have a decent word processor
that would work on both.  

john

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From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: DNS/named:  Caching vs. Forwarding Server?
Summary: What's the difference?  Which should I choose?
Date: 10 Sep 92 13:31:34 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

I need to set up some sort of name server for my group
of hosts on the campus network.  Currently, I just have
resolv.conf files on my hosts but would like to keep some
sort of local name service when access to the campus name
server goes away.  (I access it through a DS-1 link.)

I understand what a primary and a secondary nameserver is.
I am pretty sure I don't want either of these.  So now I
think I want either a caching or a forwarding name server.

The problem is that I don't understand quite the subtle 
difference between the two.  What I desire is that when
the DS-1 link is down that I will at least have minimal
DNS for those hosts local to me, which would probably
be in the cache.  (Ideally, I'd also like some way to force
some list of hosts into the cache right at boot time so if
the DS-1 link goes down 3 minutes later, I will have more
than 2 hosts in the cache.)

I read all the SunOS documentation and think I can set up either
way.  Just need some advice on which one to do....

Thanks in advance,
Robert
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From: vulture@carrion.cc.ic.ac.uk (Thomas Sippel - Dau)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Help Please Setting User Default Job Priorities
Date: 4 Sep 92 09:15:09 GMT
Reply-To: cmaae47@cc.ic.ac.uk
Organization: Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

In article <u=81Hk+=99@atlantis.psu.edu>, vincent@orville.psu.edu (James Vincent) writes:
 -- One user on an SGI system I use elsewhere is given job priority 24 for all
 -- jobs submitted, while everyone else is given priority 20, which is the 
 -- default. Would someone be kind enough to answer a few questions about this?
.....
 -- The only really obvious difference between this user and all othes is that
 -- this person uses the Bourne shell and others use csh. Any help would be
 -- greatly appreciated.

This sounds like the effect of the bgnice setting, which drops the priority
for background jobs by 4. The C shell has no equivalent to it

                                         Thomas
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From: david@marie.stat.uga.edu (David Gundlach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Can't get DNS running
Summary: help with books
Date: 6 Sep 92 15:14:21 GMT
Article-I.D.: athena.1992Sep6.151421.28650
Organization: University of Georgia Statistics Department

And then in <1992Sep2.222502.6172@midway.uchicago.edu>, epc1@midway.uchicago.edu said...
% 
% Well, after a week of poring through Sun's System & Network Admin manual and
% rooting around my system, I still can't get DNS up and running.  Does anybody
% have any suggestions?
Not really, I'm afraid...  I can't help you there :-)

% 
% Unfortunately, understanding things on a theoretical level is a far cry
% from being able to implement them in real life.
Indeed.  Sort of the same as sendmail.cf (ugh!)

% 
% In addition, I've seen some books posted on system administration.
% If you were to recommend one or two, which would you recommend?
The first one I'd recommend is The UNIX Systems Administration
Handbook, by Garth, Nemi and Snyder at Boulder, CO.  It's a great book
that's geared toward Berkely flavors of UNIX, and the sources listed
in the book are all available by anon ftp from boulder.  I've been
very happy with it; my copy is now pretty well worn :-)

% 
% Thanks.
Best of luck...

% -- 
% En Pum Cho					
% University of Chicago Class of 1994
% math & economics major
% epc1@midway.uchicago.edu



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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc,comp.misc
From: del@fnx.uucp (Dag Erik Lindberg)
Subject: Re: What is the best way to communicate remotely?
Organization: I/Ovations
Distribution: usa
Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1992 18:18:58 GMT

In <1992Sep04.172530.22261@wap.oau.org> bdixon@wap.oau.org (Bill Dixon) writes:

>I just found out that my company plans to open up warehouses out of state
>in the next 2 or 3 months, and of course they want terminals and printers
>there.

>If it was just terminals they wanted, I would just give them PC's with a
>modem running ProComm.  But I don't know how to handle the printers.  I
>have toyed with the idea of faxing their reports to them with a fax modem
>(which I don't have right now, but this would give me justification to get
>one :).

I would suggest using remote terminals with printer ports (auxilliary
serial ports) attached.  Such terminals have special codes which can
be sent which will allow the screen/keyboard to be disabled and the
aux port to be enabled.  There is special Unix drivers available which
will allow this feature to be used to implement a standard 'lp' device
which will print through that terminal, while allowing a normal login
session to run at the keyboard.  The user will notice some response
degradation while the printer is active, but in general it works well.

The Wyse 60 is a fairly 'standard' terminal which will do what you want.

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                          Who is John Galt?
From: craig@ec.uwa.oz.au (Craig Richmond - division)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Can't get DNS running
Date: 8 Sep 1992 04:13:46 GMT
Organization: The University of Westrn Australia
NNTP-Posting-Host: decel.ecel.uwa.edu.au

gxn@dstos3.dsto.gov.au writes:

>Re:- can't get DNS running on a SUN...

> I had a similar problem. But reading the Answerbook tells you
>that you have to have NIS running for DNS to work. I.E. all
>calls to the resolver are done via NIS. Therefore you have to
>have NIS running, and initialised with the -b option on the makefile.
>Hope this helps..

>Gordon NUSSEY

Here is an article that was posted a couple of months back.  It is the
simple instructions for getting DNS to work on your Sun.  Don't mail me for
help, I only archived it.

Good Luck,
Craig
From: fengstad@xi.uleth.ca (Grant Fengstad)
Subject: UUCICO synch/alarm problems
Organization: University of Lethbridge
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 00:11:01 GMT

I have set up a few UUCP connections on my SCO Unix system.  This system
is acting as a UUCP gateway for the Network.  When connecting to aother
system, I occasionally get problems during uucico transfers.  Midway,
uucico hags with the status screen showing:

alarm 1
alarm 2
alarm 3
etc

Eventually, the call times out and is tried again.  If I remove the
queued jobs and initiate another call, it works just fine.  This problem
is not consistent, but is driving me crazy.

Can anyone provide any clues?

Please email responses...  Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: berry@socrates.umd.edu (Joseph Berry)
Subject: How to get more than 1 rlogin into SCO system
Summary: How can I do more than one rlogin into a SCO 3.2.2 system?
Keywords: rlogin SCO limitation
Organization: University of Maryland University College
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 02:02:11 GMT

I'm running SCO 3.2.2 (ODT 1.1) and cannot log into my system (from 
any other system on the network) more than one time.  Where's the 
limitation??  It doesn't matter if the computer of origin is the same
as the first rlogin or not.  The limiation is clearly on the SCO box.
Why?  In all cases, I'm using the same user name as is already logged
in via the console (that is, I'm not going past 2 users).  

Joe

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
Organization: Home
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 15:10:59 GMT

Sanford Zelkovitz (sandy@godzilla.quotron.com) wrote:
: Try "ftp"ing from esix.everex.com.  ( anonymous login ) It works too!
: 
Good show.

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   Hampstead, London                             slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk
From: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: perl 4.035 induces kernel panic in SVR4
Date: 9 Sep 92 18:06:35 GMT
Reply-To: davidsen@crd.ge.com (bill davidsen)
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady NY

In article <jrh.715877574@mustang>, jrh@mustang.dell.com (Randy Howard) writes:
| maziere1@husc8.harvard.edu (David Mazieres) writes:
| 
| >I'm running Consensys SVR4.0.3.  Perl-4.035 compiled fine with the native
| >cc (gcc gave problems).  When I do a "make test," however, it gets as far
| >as comp/for and then the kernel panics.  I'm not even running it as root.

| I have built perl 4.035 here on Dell SVR4, and with gcc I believe.  I 
| suspect that you may not have answered the configure questions all correctly
| or something *real* wierd is going on.  I can either send you my build tree

Randy, I hate to disagree, but I don't care how badly he messed up his
build parameters, if the kernel panics the o/s is at fault, not the
user or the software.

You could put a copy of the updated perl up to ftp if you wanted, that
would protect his delicate kernel and save the rest of us the effort of
getting the patch and building it ;-)

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    I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: slangley@constant.demon.co.uk (Simon Langley)
Subject: Re: >16MB on a 486
Organization: Home
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 16:58:50 GMT

Andreas Vogel (av@omega.ssw.de) wrote:
: 
: As far as I know, one have NO access to memory above the first 16 MB.
: This is true for ALL SVR3 Systems (ISC, SCO, ...). This might be true
: for some SVR4 systems. The original AT&T code provides the routines
: to access memory above the first 16 MB but these routines are not
: enabled by default. The only problem that arise is to handle the DMA
: access within the first 16 MB. So the kernel has to arrange this for
: buffers which resides in the "extended" memory. Personally, I have a 486 ISA
: machine running SVR4 with 32MB memory and my SVR4 (SINIX) definitely
: uses the whole 32MB :-)) Upgrading to 64MB will give no problems (except
: financial aspects :-)
: 
Can you tell me how you enabled the paging routines?

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   Hampstead, London                             slangley@cix.compulink.co.uk
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux,comp.os.mach,comp.unix.bsd
From: sef@kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan)
Subject: Re: Free software and the future of support for Diamond products
Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd.
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 09:33:00 GMT
Keywords: Diamond, free-software

In article <1992Sep7.133347.4433@cbnewsj.cb.att.com> dwex@cbnewsj.cb.att.com (david.e.wexelblat) writes:
>1) Calling BIOS from a multitasking OS is trick, dangerous, and impossible
>   for those of us running SVR3/4

An interesting way to get around all of those:  set up a v86 process that
calls the BIOS routines for you.  It can be done, and I've seen it (not for
the card in question, however), although I don't recall enough to make any
claims about performance.

It probably requires some kernel help, however.

There's more than one way to skin a cat, remember!

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Any opinions expressed are my own, and generally unpopular with others.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
From: sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz)
Subject: Re: DELL SVR4 - separate /usr and /var filesystem?
Keywords: dell svr4 filesystem
Organization: Quotron Systems, Inc.
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:51:25 GMT

In article <BuEw14.310@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
>randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Sep9.135941.13504@godzilla.quotron.com> sandy@godzilla.quotron.com (Sanford Zelkovitz) writes:
>>>I can't compare DELL to ESIX since you and Bill are the only two users, that
>>>I know of, of DELL Unix. I know  of many ESIX users though.
>>>
>
>Also, the ability to ftp files from dell.com is really handy for
>sharing applications and utilities..
>
Try "ftp"ing from esix.everex.com.  ( anonymous login ) It works too!

>-- 

Sandy


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From: sauer@chs.dell.com (Charlie Sauer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Dell Issue 2.2 SLIP--Anyone Make it Work?
Date: 7 Sep 92 03:15:24 GMT
Organization: Dell Computer Corporation

In article <1992Sep5.090959.22573@cv.ruu.nl> fred@cv.ruu.nl (Fred Appelman) writes:
>In <tkevans.715569602@eplrx7.es.dupont.com> tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans) writes:
>>Does anyone have Dell SVR4, Issue 2.2 (the latest) dialup
>>SLIP working?  Dell Tech Support is saying it doesn't work.
 
>I tried but it didn't work. I blamed the other side which was a new
>modem that had to use software handshake, and I thought that was to blame.

I use SLIP between two 2.2 machines nearly every day.  I had trouble configuring
the modem (a T2500) on my machine, but once I got past that, haven't had any
troubles.  Here are the settings I use for T2500, just in case they're relevant:

	AT W1
	AT X3
	AT S51=254
	AT S54=003
	AT S55=003
	AT S58=002
	AT S64=001
	AT S66=001
	AT S110=000
	AT S111=000

I won't claim these are necessary or optimal, just sufficient for my purposes.
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