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From: sasurguine@cudnvr.denver.colorado.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: DNS/NIS Mail Fiasco
Date: 2 Jan 93 16:04:22 GMT

Hi Fellow Netters:

A few quick DNS questions here:

I have just installed NIS/DNS on 4 SPARCS.  We have altered the Makefile in
/var/yp such that the magic cookie will be inserted into the hosts maps on the
Master Server.  

My first question is does this entry need to be made on the Slave server as
well?  This does not make sense to me: After all all maps are made on the
Master Server right?

My Next question concerns what has inspired me to post :-)   

We now have a serious mail problem on our machines...  At first I beleived it
to be a looping error: This inspired me to HUP the named server after changing
the db.domain file in my db directory.  Well, now my mail command does nothing
at all but hang ...

My original error occurred when attempting to mail to anything outside our 
organization.

Error -->  553 Local configuration error

Now this occurs when attempting to mail to anybody ... inside or outside ...

mail rocky@bullwinkle.org -->CR
it does nothing at all but hang

I changed the db.domain back to exactly as it was prior to my experiment and
HUPed in.named again in order to get my service to return to its old abnormal
self ...

No such luck ...

I still get absolutley nothing back from the system ... it does nothing but
hang ...

I was getting the same result on both my slave server and clients prior to 
running this experiment on the Master ...  i.e. they hung prior to my
experiment... 

All this occurred after turning my slave server adn clients into secondary
DNS servers ...

nslookup runs fine on all machines ...

This is my first exposure to really setting up DNS so I am a little confused!!

Help!!

--Thanks

--Scott A. Surguine
From: herlock@sun.lclark.edu (Jon Herlocker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: add_client and add_services on a 3/80 running 4.1.1
Date: 29 Dec 92 01:54:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: lclark.1992Dec29.015444.7931
Organization: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR



I have two Sun 3/80's, one with a disk and one with no disk.  I would like
to make the 3/80 with the disk a server and the other a diskless client. 
I have the SunOS 4.1.1 relase tapes for sun3x kernel architecture, but
the tape drive is attached to another machine, a sun 4/90 running 4.1.2.
I thought that I should be able to use a remote tape drive, but neither
add_client or add_services gives me that option.

'add_client' gives this error:
>Becoming a server for sunos 4.1.1 sun3x's
>Setting up server file system for services
>                                                                          
> add_services: cannot position media device /dev/nrst8 to file number 1.
>Please mount sunos 4.1.1 sun3x release media volume 1

When I try to run 'add_services', nothing happens.  The disk works for a
few seconds, then the screen clears and the c-shell prompt returns with no
error.

How do I make 'add_services' work?  Obviously it works when it is called
by 'add_client' but not when run directly.  I have looked at the
documentation for 4.1.1 and it looks like 'add_services' is what I want.

Can anyone help me?  I need to get the second 3/80 up and working!


Thanks in advance!

Jon

-- 
Jon Herlocker		email:  herlock@lclark.edu
Lewis & Clark College
Portland, OR 97219
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9724 comp.unix.solaris:436
From: ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp (Chiaki Ishikawa)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 License Conditions
Date: 24 Dec 92 07:32:50 GMT
Reply-To: ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Personal Media Corp., Tokyo Japan
In-reply-to: rob@gec-mi-at.co.uk's message of 23 Dec 92 17:35:19 GMT
X-Md4-Signature: 7914cdc4f9352764f5634f0fd336d1bf


In article <1992Dec23.173533.432@gec-mi-at.co.uk> rob@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Rob Matheson) writes:

   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 ?

I am just curious. Do you receive this CD as part of Sun's
early-access program for ISVs Independent Software Vendors)?

If so, it stands to reason that Sun has imposed some conditions for
the previledged ISVs to receive the release early so that the
early-access program is used to promote application software packages
that runs on Solaris.

However, if this is part of ordinary customer shipment, this condition
sounds strange to me. Are there any other fine prints? I am curious if
the omitted portion of license says something relevant in this
context.
 (I understand that the early access CD is made available to large
accounts such as big universities, too. In that case, the customers
who just wanted to peek at the upcoming systems may have received the
CD, too. Could this be your case?)

The office where I work has received the beta localized version (read
Japanese version) of Asian Solaris 2.1. This is part of our ISV
Catalyst program participation. I intend to check the compatibility of
our software packages with the future release. End customer shipment
date is not available yet for this Japanese version of Asian Solaris
2.1. In order to obtain this early access, we had to sign an
agreement.


 Chiaki Ishikawa,  Personal Media Corp.,  MY Bldg, 1-7-7 Hiratsuka,
 Shinagawa, Tokyo 142, JAPAN. FAX:+81-3-5702-0359, Phone:+81-3-5702-0351
 UUNET: ishikawa@personal-media.co.jp
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: help: biff does not work?
From: V.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz (Victoria Spagnolo)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 23:08:13 GMT
Organization: Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand
X-Reader: NETNEWS/PC Version 2c

hi,

why doesn't biff work on my IPC running 4.1.1? biff is turned on, do
i need to do anything else, and if so, what? 

please respond by email as i am not always able to read news.

thank you

Victoria Spagnolo - Programmer/Analyst
Department of Production Technology	|	V.Spagnolo@massey.ac.nz
Massey University			|	Voice: +64-6-356-9099 x7535
Palmerston North			|	Fax: +64-6-350-5604
New Zealand				|	New Zealand = GMT+12
From: svb@svb.guug.de (Sebastian v. Bomhard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Automount pro and con
Date: 21 Dec 92 00:58:35 GMT
Reply-To: svb@guug.de
Organization: v. Bomhard Unternehmensberatung

For testing purposes I tried the automounter in a very small net - I
wanted to know whether it speaks between SunOS 4.1.1 and Solaris 2.0
Beta. Yup, it does (at least under NIS, I will try NIS+ later :-)

Now I'm wondering: Shall I keep the configuration? What are the pro's of
automount against the oldstyle /etc/{vfstab,fstab} ruled "normal"
NFS-Mounts? Are there contras besides the fact of the invisible mount
points, which are bad for updatedb?

Oh, BTW, one problem still remained with Solaris 2.1: arch delivers
sun4 and arch -k sun4c, no difference to SunOS 4.*. Thus $ARCH doesn't
work for binaries which are not compatible - any ideas?

Thank you for telling me your point of view!

  -svb.
-- 
Sebastian v. Bomhard                               <svb@svb.guug.de>
St.-Anna-Str. 13, D-W-8000 Muenchen 22 (Lehel),     +49-89-298934
>>>>>>>>>>>     A neat desk is a sign of a sick mind.      <<<<<<<<<<<<<
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: jdavis@bordeaux.kpno.noao.edu (Jim Davis)
Subject: Re: traceroute on Sparcs
Organization: Thomas Tupper Jr. High
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:27:01 GMT

In article <1992Dec21.012141.6199@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> marty@radarsun.jpl.nasa.gov (Marty Slade) writes:
>The Dec. 1992 issue of SunExpert mentions the "traceroute" utility
>which allows the sysadmin of a UNIX box to find the (current) route to
>a remote host. (This was in the "Ask Mr. Protocol" column.) I cannot
>find this in Sun-supplied utilities. Can anyone please point to a
>ftp site which can supply this utility?

Try anonymous ftp to gatekeeper.dec.com, in
/pub/net/jacobson/traceroute.tar.Z.  (There are some scary-sounding comments
about kernel mods being needed in the README file, but I just downloaded,
compiled and ran it sucessfully on a stock 4.1.1 Sparc 1+.)
-- 
Jim Davis            | "It's hard to make something that bad even WORSE."
jdavis@noao.edu      |   -- Clarissa Darling
From: jpd@discovery.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: PC-NFS4.0 - pcnfsd V2 doesn't work !!
Date: 23 Dec 1992 19:05:22 GMT
Organization: Michigan State University
Distribution: world
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.msu.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: discovery.cl.msu.edu
Summary: Need help!!
Keywords: pc-nfs pcnfsd rpc.pcnfsd

I am currently unable to upgrade pcnfsd to version 2.   Currently, version 1 of the daemon works
perfectly, with the exception of some missing features.  When I kill the old, replace it with the new,
and fire it up (with an /etc/pcnfsd.conf) it seems OK, but when I try to mount an entry from printcap
onto LPT1, I get "unknown printer on server".  Specifically, it is error msg NFS230F.  see pg 208 of
PC-NFS 4.0 ref manual.

If I kill it and fire up the old daemon, it works just fine.

Any Ides??
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Michigan State University                      ph:  (517) 353-3027 
Specialized Computing Support Services           1:00pm - 5:00pm EST

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kbibb@maui.qualcomm.com (Ken Bibb)
Subject: Re: Can't find /var/yp/Makefile
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 02:09:10 GMT

In <50948@shamash.cdc.com> gmh@cloud.awd.cdc.com (Gregory M. Heideman) writes:

>I've got a Sun 3/60 that I installed  SunOs 4.1.1 on about 6 months ago.
>I did the "Quick Install" specifying  "Full install."

>Now I want to make this workstation an NIS server, and I can't
>find the file /var/yp/Makefile.  Can anybody tell me where (on
>the installation tapes) it is or how to get it onto my machine
>wothout doing another install.


Try:  mv /usr/lib/NIS.Makefile /var/yp/Makefile

-- 
Ken Bibb                "he heard the snow falling faintly through the
kbibb@qualcomm.com	 universe and faintly falling, like the descent of
jester@crash.cts.com     their last end, upon all the living and the dead."
				--"The Dead", James Joyce

Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9704 comp.unix.solaris:432
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 License Conditions
Date: 23 Dec 1992 20:32:50 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
Distribution: inet
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Dec23.173533.432@gec-mi-at.co.uk> rob@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Rob Matheson) writes:
>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.

There's a discussion of this already taking place in comp.sys.sun.misc
(what does it have to do with Sun administration?), cross-posted to
misc.legal.  Look for the thread with the subject "Put away your Motif
manual; Sun's lawyers are at the door!".  Most of the respondents seem to
think that it's not intended to be as encompassing as it sounds and there's
little to worry about.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin
From: artman@vpnet.chi.il.us (Wilfred A Artman)
Subject: Sun OS/MP 4.1A.3
Organization: Vpnet Public Access
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 15:13:55 GMT

I am getting ready to upgrade our Solbourne's (running Sun's operating
system) to 4.1A.3. I am highly interested in any problems that have
been encountered by others with this upgrade release! (if any). 

If there is sufficient interest and response, I will post a consolidated
list of problem areas. (Hopefully unnecessary!!!!)

Thanks in advance.

--wil

--
Wil Armtan
Senior Systems Administrator
Millward Brown, Inc.
e-mail: artman@vpnet.chi.il.us
voice: (708) 505-0066 x8779
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: How to update shared libraries?
Date: 25 Dec 1992 18:31:32 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <FAN.92Dec24195523@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu> fan@tammy.cath.puh.upmc.edu (Ningping Fan) writes:
>When I read your article, another problem is acrossing over my mind.
>Why static linked binary program may not work in a newer version OS?
>Since it is binary machine codes, i.e. the Sparc processor codes,
>it should work across all the Sparc processor machine, isn't it?

It is also SunOS system calls, and the internal interfaces to system calls
may change between releases.  These differences can be hidden by the new
version of the library functions that are used from C.

>Is that to link dynamically, could the problem of different version
>of shared lib be existed? What I really mean is that for a software
>company to distribute his software in binary format, should the
>company to link the code dynamically or statically in order to
>guarantee the code work across all the Sparc workstations with various
>versions of OSs?

You should compile and link dynamically on the oldest version of the OS you
wish to support.
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1/SunOS 4.1.3 on sun4e
Date: 31 Dec 92 00:37:48 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>>Can either of these release be installed on 4e's?
>
>The last that I heard the 4E's had a special release called "SunOS 4.1E".
>Since they're intended for imbedded applications, I suspect that keeping
>their OS up to date isn't very critical to Sun.

Somewhere in the Solaris 2.1 Early Access release notes, or in some
other document that came with our CD-ROM, it indicated that one
architecture supported by 2.1 was the Sun-4E architecture.  (No, I don't
have the document handy.  No, I can't find it in the office of the
person from whom I borrowed it, and he doesn't seem to be in his office
right now, so I can't get at the document right now.)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cpcahil@vti.com (Conor P. Cahill)
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 problems with >1GB disks?
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 12:00:19 GMT

devil@HellNet.org (Gil Tene) writes:

>Does Solaris 2.1 have some problem with >1GB disks???

>I am trying to load Solaris 2.1 from the distribution CDROM 
>to a Toshiba MK-538FB, 1.2GB (formatted) disk on a new LX. 

We have Solaris 2.1, SunOS 4.1.1, 4.1.2, and 4.1.3 all booting
from the same 1.3 GB drive (A Micropolis 1528 or something like
that), So I would have to say that there is some other problem.


-- 
*** SENTINEL(tm) The ultimate Debugging Environment - email for more info ***

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.questions
From: efroyman@lynx.dac.northeastern.edu (Ella Froyman)
Subject: Hooking up more than 8 devices on a scsi port
Followup-To: poster
Keywords: sun
Organization: Northeastern University
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 16:42:50 GMT


Hi netters;

I have 2 scsi ports on my sun sparc 2. I want to connect 8 devices to
one scsi port and 8 to the second. How do i do it? I know you can
have 8 devices on 1 scsi port. But what if i want 9 devices on a scsi
port
Please reply to my email address
Thanks
Ella

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: morley@suncad.camosun.bc.ca (Mark Morley)
Subject: Looking for a monitor program...
Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 19:43:20 GMT


Hi,

I'm looking for a utility that will allow me to connect to another process
and see an echo of all its screen IO.  In other words, I need to be able
to see on my terminal, exactly what a user is seeing/doing on their
terminal.  I have a program for VMS called WATCH that does this, is there
anything similar for UNIX?  Preferably there is one that works with PTY's
as well, and also allows my keyboard input to be sent to the attached process.
One that could perhaps attach to *multiple* processes would be useful (in
a classroom setting).

Thanks,
MARK

PS: Oh, and for those of you who are wondering, I'm not looking for a way
    to play "big brother".  We've found that on our VAXes, such a program
    helps us in diagnosing user errors, as well as a being a nahdy tool for
    teaching novice users how to use a new application.

====================================================================
 Mark Morley, UNIX/SUN Administrator     NET: morley@camosun.bc.ca
 Camosun College - Interurban Campus     TEL: (604) 370-4601
 4461 Interurban Road  Room 143-Tech     FAX: (604) 370-3660
 Victoria,   B.C.  Canada    V8X 3X1
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:9735 comp.sys.sun.misc:6005 comp.sys.sun.hardware:6512
From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: SUN European Distributors?
Date: 25 Dec 92 14:01:03 GMT
Organization: cic

psikos@erato.csi.forth.gr (Panos Psikos) writes:


>	The subject line says it all. I am looking for European Distributors
>of Sun systems. Any suggestions, recommendations or experiences are welcomed.

I believe you best call the Italian Sun office. If my memory serves
me, they are responsible for all of southern Europe.

Sun Microsystems Italia SA
Centro Direzionale Colleoni
Palazzo Andromeda (Ingresso 1)
Via Paracelso 16
20041 Grate Brianza
Milano, Italia

+39-6055-1
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: ellis@nova.gmi.edu (Stew Ellis)
Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
Organization: GMI Engineering&Management Institute, Flint, MI
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:06:07 GMT

marquis@netcom.com (Roger Marquis) writes:

>In article <1go470INNsl7@male.EBay.Sun.COM> elkinbar@filly.EBay.Sun.COM (Greg Elkinbard) writes:
>>
>>> 
>>> [...] (deleted stuff not about 4.1.x on a Sparcclassic

>Ahem... If I read the 'Subject:' line correctly this thread was not about
>the de/merits of any particular OS.  Doesn't anyone bother to update
>their subject headers in this newsgroup?

>My question is: 

>------>   HAS ANYONE TRIED TO INSTALL 4.1.x ON A SPARCCLASSIC?   <------

>I know 'Sun says' it won't work but Sun employees have been overheard
>talking about what will hit the fan if it is even suggested that 
>4.1.x can be installed on a 'classic'.  I don't know about you
>but this makes me curious.  It would sure be nice to get a classic _now_

Should we be reading between the lines here that you are suggesting that Sun
employees might know that you can boot a classic with 4.1.2 or 4.1.3?
If there is anyone out there who has a classic, you could do everyone a big
favor by trying to boot with 4.1.2 and with 4.1.3 and give the rest of us a
report.  

>and transition to 5.x.x when I'm ready, or even to have dual OS
>partitions and boot from either!

Whenever I want to get totally confused/lost I can login to my i386 SVR4
box.  Makes me want to get back to SunOS 4.1.x real fast!


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  Humanities & Social Science,  GMI Eng.& Mgmt. Inst.   /        / /  /  / /
  Flint, MI 48504      ellis@nova.gmi.edu              /________/ /  /  / /
From: davidh@CIS.Prime.COM (Dave Hill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help with Error message -- Conditional Sucess. Data Retry Performed
Date: 21 Dec 92 18:03:36 GMT
Organization: Computervision R&D LTD.
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL3

This is a known "feature", Sun bug ID: 1036367. The answer is to ignore
them.

"IPI disk error equivalent to a "seek" error.  All systems with IPI
drives exhibit these messages during heavy disk activity. It is not
fatal, and is an informational message.  A disk write required multiple
attempts before it succeeded." (from SRDB 1044).

It is also detailed in the 4.1.2 installation manual.

--
Dave Hill                                                  davidh@cis.Prime.COM
Computervision R&D Ltd                                      +44 223 872377 x352
Harston Mill, Harston, CB2 5NH, UK				       Who? Me?
From: jh26@prism.gatech.EDU (Jay Harrell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Where is the "crypt" program?
Date: 21 Dec 92 21:24:05 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology


The "crypt" program doesn't seem to be on my Sun, could
somebody please tell me where I can find it?

Jay

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           Jay Harrell
Georgia Tech Research Institute, CSITL, Atlanta, GA 30332-0800
Internet : jh26@prism.gatech.edu 	Telephone: (404) 894-4266
From: km@mathcs.emory.edu (Ken Mandelberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: ROOT/SWAP on other subnet
Date: 21 Dec 1992 18:42:48 GMT
Organization: Emory University, Dept of Math and CS
Distribution: world
Reply-To: km@mathcs.emory.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: km-sl.cc.emory.edu

Is there any way to get a diskless Sun to get its boot and swap off a
Sun on a different subnet (bootparam itself is no problem).

Actually, we do this all the time where the other subnet is behind a
cisco router. The cisco can be made to proxyarp for the remote subnet.

The problem is the case where a Sun with two ethernet cards is acting
as the router. I don't see how to make the Sun proxyarp for machines on
its other subnet. ("arp -s ip-addr routers-ether public" is a disaster,
since there is apparently only one arp table for both interfaces).


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: saint@eeup1 (Ming-Jer Lee)
Subject: Bootp Help
Organization: National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 11:27:11 GMT


Dear netters,

  I use sun 630mp(sunos4.1.2) to be a bootp server, it works fine. But recently
there is a message 'Hardware Address xxxxxxxxxxxx not found in bootp table'. In
fact,  the bootp server services only 50 diskless PCs  and the hardware address 
is not belong to those PCs.

  I add the entry to the bootp table,  so that the bootp daemon doesn't produce
the message again. But when I remove that entry, the same message appear again.
That is, there is one machine always send bootp request, but I can't find which
device sends the bootp request.  The  message repeats 1000+ times per day in my
/var/adm/messages. Can someone help me?

--
saint@mail.ncku.edu.tw

National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan