HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
Date: 24 Jul 92 15:49:58 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul24.154958.6867
Reply-To: elling@eng.auburn.edu
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

In article 711983630@theseas, yvent@ntua.gr (Yannis Ventikos) writes:
>
>I would like to see Sun coming up with sys.admin's manuals that cover
>the subject properly and with libc.so.x.y.z libraries that check the
>/etc/hosts file first if in.named is not runing and resolv.conf is not present,
>libraries that won't need relinking and can run under all situations. This 
>isn't too hard, I have heard that there are already releases that do this, but
>I want them on all Suns distributed.

hmmm... sounds like you want Solaris 2.0...
Unfortunately, the DNS is already a complex beast and it will not change soon.
If it were to change, it would be probably become more complex rather than
simpler (perhaps and X.500 warrior could comment?)
DNS is something that everyone with an Internet connection should be able to
configure.  The chapters on DNS in the Sun System Administration Manual do
contain enough information and examples to get a simple DNS site working.
For more information, I believe there is a Nutshell book on configuring DNS.
Also, several large sites make their DNS configuration files available for
anonymous ftp (bu.edu and ucsd.edu come to mind)

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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Automatic Screen Blanking Available?
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:11:44 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <derosa.712355484@marble> motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net writes:
<Is there a tool to do screen blanking (after
<a certain idle time) on Sun4's, specifically
<a SparcStation 2?
<
<I have seen this done before.  I assume that there
<is some type of process that runs that checks idle time.

You are going to shoot yourself over this one...

Add the following to your /etc/rc.local:

	# set the screen saver
	/usr/bin/screenblank -d 480

Also execute the line, as root, so that it will take affect during your
current sesssion.  It will also be automatically started everytime the
system is booted.
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From: billq@fnal.gov (William R. Quayle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,mail.sun-managers
Subject: Re: ATTENTION: A problem with dump under 4.1.1
Keywords: tape, cleaning
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:31:29 GMT
Reply-To: billq@pogo.fnal.gov
Organization: Independant Consultant

In article <1992Jul21.195006.112389@zeus.calpoly.edu>, etsiao@joule (Eddie Tsiao) writes:
|> In article <1992Jul20.073110.20195@aristo.tau.ac.il> shani@GENIUS.TAU.AC.IL (Oren Shani) writes:
|> We have had (are having?) similar problems.  We occationally get an error:
|> 
|>   DUMP: Tape write error 753 feet into tape 1
|>   DUMP: fopen on /dev/tty fails
|>   DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
|> 
Sorry if I've missed this in an earlier followup, but has the drive been
cleaned?  I realize that 8mm cleaning is a sensitive issue (you don't want
to overdo it or *ever* use video cleaners!), but I encountered these same
errors on our servers.  After a cleaning with an Excabyte 8mm cleaning
cartridge, the problems subsided.

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From: nicholls@stillcamera.jsc.nasa.gov (nicholls)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Why does mouse send ethernet packets?
Date: 23 Jul 92 13:06:17 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX USA

Why does my left mouse button send ethernet packets, and
cause hard disk activity?  The other buttons do not behave
this way.  I hope the packets are going to 'localhost'.

BTW: I am running suntools from SunOS 4.0.3

bill nicholls
nicholls@stillcamera.jsc.nasa.gov
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jpd@tardis.cl.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Subject: UPgrading PC-NFS to 4.0
Organization: Michigan State University
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 15:42:09 GMT


We are considering upgrading PC-NFS from 3.0.1 to 4.0

Are Suns are all SS2's running 4.1.1.

Are there any problems with this upgrade?
Will I need a new pcnfsd?


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Sun Screen Savers
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 20:57:25 GMT

David> == David Lopata <dlopata@shark.stat.ufl.edu> 

 David> [need a screenblanker] It has to be something that can run in
 David> rc.local, so it will blank regardless of whether or not someone
 David> is logged in.

 David> The Sun folks have said screenblank should NOT be run in
 David> rc.local, and should be killed when a person logs out, making
 David> it's installation a rather pointless gesture at best.

If you're going to be using X and just X, set up xdm, and let the X
screensaver take care of it.

(We run screenblank on a couple of our machines from rc.local, never had
any problems; we run xdm on one, and it's fine; the other two are admin
workstations, so they get xlocked as necessary :)
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: vannes@srzts304.alcatel.ch (Tom van Nes)
Subject: Re: Automatic Screen Blanking Available?
Organization: Alcatel STR Switzerland
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 07:57:25 GMT

In article <derosa.712355484@marble> motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net writes:
>Is there a tool to do screen blanking (after
>a certain idle time) on Sun4's, specifically
>a SparcStation 2?
>
>I have seen this done before.  I assume that there
>is some type of process that runs that checks idle time.
>

see screenblank man pages
or if you are using Open Windows 3 then use the command:
	xset s
(turning screensave off: xset s off)
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From: jschamba@na35.lbl.gov (Jo Schambach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Remote tape device write/read?
Date: 30 Jul 92 15:44:36 GMT
Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.3.252.87

Is it possible to read/write from/to a tape device on a remote computer? If yes,
how? I saw the man page on "rmt", but didn't understand how this would help.

Jo
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: beaker@milton.u.washington.edu (Clint Olsen)
Subject: Re: dumb questions about 4.1.2 upgrades
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 07:32:41 GMT

About OpenWindows 3.0:

You may want to hold off on that upgrade for OpenWindows.  I hear that there
is a mouse tracking problem (as well as other bugs) in the program.


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From: kevinc@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: getty errors
Keywords: ioctl getty ttyd0
Date: 22 Jul 92 00:01:50 GMT
Reply-To: solomon!kevinc@qiclab.scn.rain.com
Distribution: usa
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.



Twice now I've seen the following error reported to the console:

	getty: ioctl(TCGETS): Operation not supported on socket

One of the two times it was preceded by:

	getty: ioctl(TCGETS): Bad file number

The getty process was running on ttyd0 which is my dial-in/dial-out port
of a Sun-3/50 running SunOS 4.1.1_U1.

Why might I be getting this error sporadicly and what might I do to cure it?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: nicholls@stillcamera.jsc.nasa.gov (nicholls)
Subject: Re: DNS & Resolver. Things Sun should do.
Summary: NIS == YellowPages
Keywords: DNS
Organization: NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston TX USA
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 16:47:32 GMT

Thanks for the amusing and interesting replies to my query
about NIS.  I had not known that NIS is the new name for
the old yellow pages system (I'm running 4.0.3).

Regarding NFS not being secure, did you know that there
is at least one NFS package for MSDOS PC's that asks the
user to actually type in the UID and GID numbers for the client
to use in NFS transfers?  Mmmmm, that's nasty.

-bill
nicholls@stillcamera.jsc.nasa.gov
From: straw@cam.nist.gov (Mike_Strawbridge_x3852)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: warning from 'newfs'
Date: 22 Jul 92 15:45:29 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

I have a new Seagate ST41650N SCSI drive ...

pcyl = 2107, ncyl = 2105, acyl = 2, head = 15, sector = 87

I have partitioned for just one large partition ... 2105 cylinders.

When I run newfs on this partition I get the message

	"Warning: 1 sector(s) in last cylinder unallocated."

What does this mean? Is this bad or can I ignore it? Should I partition for
1 less cylinder (2104)?

Thanks.

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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Kernel Config -- Whats the deal with MAXUSERS?
Date: 23 Jul 1992 19:49:03 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <mjr.711911236@uther> mjr@uther.calvin.edu (Matt Ranney) writes:
>This chart has puzzled me ever since we got our 4/670.  Why does
>MAXUSERS have to be lower if you have more memory available?

The size of some kernel tables related to memory management are
proportional to the amount of memory you have.  There are probably some
per-process data structures that have this property, so the number of
processes goes down as the total memory goes up.
-- 
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System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mccoll@cse.uta.edu (Roddy McColl)
Subject: Re: Exabyte in 8500 mode under SunOS 4.1.1
Followup-To: hemmer@procyon.cern.ch
Summary: Problem in supplied patch
Keywords: Exabyte 8500 SunOS 4.1.1
Organization: Computer Science & Engineering, Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 19:31:15 GMT


hemmer@procyon.cern.ch (Frederic Hemmer ATD10) writes :
>
> SunOS 4.1.1 actually can support 8500. It just needs to be helped a little
> bit :
> 
> on sun3, sun4 architectures modify /sys/sundev/streg.h :
> add an entry for 8500 with the low-density flag as first device :
> 
> /* Exabyte 8mm 5GB cartridge */ \
> {       "Exabyte", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8500", ST_TYPE_EXABYTE, \
>         1024, (ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE | ST_PHYSREC), \
>         30, 30, 30, 30, 60, 60, 60, 60, \
>         0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,  0, 0, 0, 0 }, \
> 
> on sun4c (sun4m must have at least 4.1.2) modify /sys/scsi/targets/st_conf.c
> add an entry for 8500 with the low-density flag as first device :
> 
>         "Exabyte EXB-8500 8mm Helical Scan", 16, "EXABYTE EXB-8500",
>         ST_TYPE_EXB8500, 1024,
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>         (ST_VARIABLE | ST_BSF | ST_BSR | ST_LONG_ERASE),
>         5000, 5000,
>         { 0x14, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00 },
>         {  0, 0, 0, 0 }
> 
> and rebuild kernel. This will then use the 0x14 for rst{n} turning the 8500
> in low density. rst{n+8} will be the normal mode. Note that an 8200 will not
> accept the 0x14 density flag so this entry will NOT work for 8200.
> 
> Frederic.
> 
> Frederic Hemmer                          email: hemmer@sun1.cern.ch
> European Laboratory for Particle Physics bitnet: hemmer at cernvm
> Computers and Networks division          phone: +41-22-7676104
> CH-1211 Geneva 23 - Switzerland          fax:   +41-22-7677155


Frederic,
	Could you please tell me what number *ST_TYPE_EXB8500* should
be ?

Thanks,


	Roddy McColl
From: pam@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Pat Macdonald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Legato Networker experience
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:48:28 GMT
Distribution: na
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada


    We are considering acquiring Legato Networker as our backup system.
Has anybody out there had any negative experiences with this product?
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: carruth@mksol.dseg.ti.com (matthew carruth)
Subject: screenblank setup
Organization: Texas Instruments
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 21:21:38 GMT

I've received  several suns.  Some have screenblank running and some don't.  I would
like to start it on the machines that are not currently running it.  How do I set
it up?
Keywords:
From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun Screen Savers
Date: 24 Jul 92 01:09:49 GMT
Organization: The Great Beyond

In article <1992Jul23.211248.15364@wl.com> duffiem@wl.com (Mark Duffield) writes:
>
>Does Sun say why this is a bad idea?  We do it here and seems to work fine.
>

It's running fine on most of our machines too, but one possible reason
not to run it is crash diagnosis - if your screen is blank when the machine
wedges, it's hard to see what happened.

Our servers don't run screenblank for that reason.  My personal machine doesn't
run it either, since I like to watch the visual wallpaper generated by
xlocktool without having screenblank blank it :-).

If the professors stay logged in for days, xlocktool will start up xlock
after an idle time (no menu action required).  If they log out at
night but don't power down the monitor, they'll need screenblank.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mshah@ece.arizona.edu (Munil A. Shah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: X11R5 installation problem on Sun..
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:02:06 GMT
Reply-To: mshah@ece.arizona.edu (Munil A. Shah)
Distribution: world,local
Organization: University of Arizona Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering


	I compiled and installed X11R5. I edited the makefile to change
the ProjectRoot. So binaries,libraries etc. were installed into non-default
directories. Now the problem is : While starting the xinit, it can't find
the fonts of the new lib directory. So it uses the default ones. When I 
run 'xset q' command I can see that it is looking under the old directory
(/usr/lib...) for fonts.
	Is there any way I can fix this problem, without replacing the 
links in /usr/lib?.(The links in this directories currently point to
X11R4 and I don't want to disturb these links until I finally decides
to replace R4 by R5).

-Munil
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.mail.uucp
From: georgn@noweh.com (Georg S. Nikodym)
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1.1 uucp (BNU/HDB) ACU limit of 9600bps??????
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Noweh Software
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 04:04:04 GMT

In article <ENGSTROM.92Jul21110140@moriarty.src.honeywell.com> engstrom@src.honeywell.com (Eric Engstrom) writes:
>
>Ok.  I'm really frustrated now.  
>
>I've been mucking with our uucp configuration recently (got some new faster
>modems) and have seem to found an odd limit/bug in SunOS 4.1.1 uucp
>(basically BNU/HDB SVR3 uucp).
>
>As an example, I had several sites configured as such:
>
>  Systems excerpt:
>    foosite Any ACU tb19200 Out5551212 ogin:--ogin: xxxxx ssword: xxxxx
>  Devices excerpt:
>    ACU ttyz05 - tb19200 tbplus
>    ACU ttyz05 - tb9600 tbplus
>  Dialers excerpt:
>    tbplus	=W-,	"" \dA\pT\r\c OK\r \pATDT\T\r\c CONNECT STTY=crtscts

I think you've been staring at these for too long ;-)  Here's the fix:

Devices:

ACU ttyz05 - 19200 tbplus

The Dialers was fine.  If the modem is really locked at some speed then
having a Devices entry for each speed won't work.  Remember that the
baud rate in the Devices file determines the speed with which the
computer expects to talk to the modem (this speed was at one time actually
related to the speed that a pair of modems spoke with each other, but
that's another story...), thus if the modem _interface_ speed is locked
you only need one Devices.

BTW, I run my T2500 at 19200 all the time.

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From: rchen@walrus.mvhs.edu (Rodney Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sun manuals
Date: 25 Jul 92 02:11:07 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Monte Vista High School, Cupertino, California


Hello to all the Unix sysadmin gurus out there...well I'd better explain my
situation.  As part of a project through NASA/NREN, our school was selected
in January to become an Internet site, to see how high school students can
communicate with people who normally are in college or are professionals.  At
first, we had a site situated at the Ames Research Center, warren.arc.nasa.gov,
but in March we got a Sun 3/60 for one of the first high school internet sites,
walrus.mvhs.edu.  The problem is, this Sun has been inactive for a year or more
and had been improperly configured for use on the Internet.  It also came with
no manuals.  I had been selected to be system administrator, and currently my
only reference is the Unix System Administration Handbook by Evi Nemeth, Garth
Snyder, and Scott Seebass.

Up to the present, I have been trying to fix up mail and set up readnews on
our system, with the help of others.  However, they are professionals themselves
and usually too busy to attend to us at the exact moment a problem springs up.
I would like to know if anyone out there has a spare set of Sun manuals that
they may donate to us.  We are in DESPERATE need of them, as my guesses will
probably fail and we don't even have distribution tapes or a backup medium if
a problem arises.  If that isn't possible, I would like to know if you can help
me out when a problem does arise.  I already have a couple names, and I thank
you for all the help you have given me.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cecil@physics.unc.edu (Gerald Cecil)
Subject: Autobaud detection on desktop SPARC serial ports for PPP & UUCP
Organization: Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. North. Carolina at Chapel Hill
Distribution: na
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 15:53:14 GMT

I have configured the serial port and v32bis modem (set @ 14,400 bps) on my SS1
to support a remote user on an old Dec VT-330 terminal that operates at a max 
speed of 19.2K.  UUCP files, ttytab, & eeprom are all set for 19.2K.  I use 
UUCP/tip from my home IPC & now want to increase the speed to use PPP 
effectively.  I got UUCP to work @ 38.4K by reconfiguring ttytab etc, but the 
remote terminal user can no longer access the SS1.  Autobaud detection in 
ttytab via a D38400 entry nx'ed to D19200 doesn't seem to work (UUCP/tip never 
connects).  Any ideas how I can run this mix of baud rates on the port?  
(Access times are unpredictable, so a cron reset of ttytab & kill -1 1 
wouldn't be satisfactory.)

3 more questions:
1. should I be running `hardware' flow control on the 
terminal/modems/eeprom/UUCP/etc?

2. when I reconfigured to 38.4K, UUCP xfers only increased from about 930 cps 
to 1050 cps.  Could this less than impressive increase be due to excessive
interrupts?  Both the SS1 & IPC were docile other than the UUCP link.

3. Where can I get the most recent PPP, & has anyone experienced problems
with it on OS 4.1.1 or 4.1.2?

Pls reply by e-mail & thanks in advance!
-- 
Gerald Cecil 919-962-7169  Dept. Physics & Astronomy
U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3255 USA
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From: fhl@milton.u.washington.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Fascist password programs?
Date: 27 Jul 92 22:39:49 GMT
Reply-To: dean2@rocky.geol.scarolina.edu (Dean Pentcheff)
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Distribution: usa
Organization: Department of Biology, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Can someone point me to some code for a configurable, stringent passwd
program?  I'd like something that checks (at least) for permutations of
the login name, common words, short length, repetitive sequences, etc.

I'm running SunOS 4.1.1 on an SparcStation IPC.  The existing passwd
supports password aging but not shadow passwords.

Thanks!

-Dean
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Subject: Re: resetting pseudo-terminal sizes?
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 00:52:22 GMT

In <FPB.92Jul26140210@ittc.ittc.wec.com> fpb@ittc.wec.com
	(Frank P. Bresz) writes:

>	Hmm, 
>	I have a 4/490 running SunOS 4.1.1 which is forever getting what I
>	call 'whacked out ptys'.  Seems to always be even numbered ptys.
>	Typically 0 but sometimes 6.  Sometimes you can't even login on the
>	telnet port.  After entering your password it just says 'connection
>	closed'.  Other times the terminal is in noecho mode.  Other times
>	it is in the mode where you get no <CR> just linefeeds across your
>	page.  If anyone knows of a patch I'd really like to hear about it.

There is a patch.  Don't apply it to a 600MP, though.  It appears to fix
the problem nicely on other machines.

100188-02/README:Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1;4.1.2: pty can get output from
	another application
-- 
-Gary Mills-         -Networking Group-          -U of M Computer Services-