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From: doug@happy.dab.ge.com (Doug Hughes)
Subject: Re: hosts.lpd problem
Followup-To: comp.sys.un.admin
Summary: fixed
Organization: General Electric Aerospace, King of Prussia, PA
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:36:53 GMT


Well, the error seemed to be that the file in question was not owned
properly. Changing permissions so that owner/group = daemon fixed
the problem.  Thanks for all suggestions, but it was figured out on
our own! :)
   One of those weird things you don't normally think of..

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx)
Subject: Re: SPARCclassic and SunOS 4.1.x
Reply-To: db@sunbim.be
Organization: BIM n.v. Everberg Belgium
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 09:14:08 GMT

> Because the technology is better in 4.3BSD.  Even Solaris 2.1 has an
> antiquated feel about it.  Everything is bloated and complicated and
> doesn't lent itself to `remote administration' -- e.g. stupid
> screen-based interfaces to do system administration.  Yes I know that
> deep down it is just writing files, but the program interface to those
> files isn't publicised.

Huh ? Solaris 2.1 contains a couple of X (well OpenWindows, OPEN LOOK, XView,..)
tools for remote system administration.

And JumpStart can be used to initially configure a system from a central server.
You can have a setup with a number of servers one of which has details of the
setup of all other Suns. If a Sun crashes, then it is easy to reinstall the system
using just that.
--
	Danny Backx
	System Engineer

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Telephone: +32(2)759.59.25	Fax : +32(2)759.47.95

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: sacks@netmgr.mot.com (Dennis Sacks)
Subject: Newsprint 2.0 and Appleshare/gatorbox
Reply-To: sacks@netmgr.mot.com
Organization: Info Enterprises
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 18:51:56 GMT

I have two Apple laserwriter printers on appleshare that I am accessing via
a cayman gatorbox. Newsprint's version of enscript does not appear to work
with this combination of equipment for some reason.

I have no problem using enscript to the sparcprinter attached to my machine.
When I use enscript to one of the laserwriters I get a printout, but it has
none of the attributes I specified to enscript and it contains four lines
before the text of my printout that appear to be formatting lines.

Here is an example of the text that printed out when I executed
enscript -Plw .cshrc

+!ascii
+#C
++postprint.2ps -h -pp -N".cshrc" -d"Dec 15 09:16"
%--/-/--
set ignoreeof
set noclobber
set history=50
.. etc ...


Notice the four lines that look like internal Newsprint info that get printed out
before my .cshrc text.

Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?


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Dennis Sacks                           The Crunchy Wizard
    is sacks@panther.mot.com           is looking for a better
         at Info Enterprises           .sig

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ckd@eff.org (Christopher Davis)
Subject: Re: Need to let Non-Root use Mount
Organization: Electronic Frontier Foundation Tech Central
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 19:25:32 GMT

MR> == Michael Riepe <riepe@ifwsn4.ifw.uni-hannover.de>

 MR> What are you talking about ? On this system (Sparc10, SunOS 4.1.3)
 MR> the shell scripts below work fine with owner=root and perms=4755
 MR> (and there is also a similar version for the floppy disk).

Great!  Can I have root on your machine?  (Don't bother giving me the
root password, all I need now is an account and about 5 minutes...)

I've always wanted access to a Sparc10... :)

[Seriously, folks, setuid scripts are a BAD BAD BAD BAD idea.]
--
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<ckd@eff.org>   EFF #14   |   for the TV generation, Klingon) high command.
System Administrator, EFF |   Whoever takes action and can be heard wins.''
+1 617 864 0665  [CKD1]   |   --Peter da Silva <peter@ferranti.com>
From: ca@informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de (Claus Assmann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Ungrade Sunlink 6.0 -> 7.0 (MHS,OSI,X2.5): doesn't work ?!
Date: 12 Dec 1992 15:46:13 +0100
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Kiel, Germany
NNTP-Posting-Host: mine.informatik.uni-kiel.dbp.de
Keywords: upgrade,sunlink,mhs,osi

We are in the process of upgrading or Sunlink 6.0 versions to 7.0 (again).
We have X.25, OSI and MHS (for X.400) installed. Our only mta partner
is a PDP 11. We use the following entry in /etc/sunlink/osi/hosts for it:

rz.uni-kiel {                                           \
        [(cons-1980) 10001004, (x25pid) 65616e31]     \
        [(tsel-s) ""]                                   \
        [(ssel-s) ""]                                   \
        } MHS_CONS

which we found after three days of trying and tracing the first installation.
The upgrade to 7.0 produced this entry in /etc/sunlink/osi/isoentities:

rz.uni-kiel     mta             NULL    \
                Int-X25=10001004+PID+65616e31

However, this doesn't work. An excerpt from ~mail/etc/TRACE gives:

X400 RTS Init   : RTS initiator starts for queue 0Airts 00rz.uni-kiel
X400 RTS Init   : RTSLIB: TAsynConnRequest: Unspecified (undefined) CONS error
X400 RTS Init   : RTSLIB: SConnRequest(pseudo): Transport disconnect
X400 RTS Init   : RTSLIB: rtpktlose [Session disconnect]
X400 RTS Init   : ERROR: Unable to connect to remote address:
X400 RTS Init   :        Int-X25=10001004+PID+65616e31
X400 RTS Init   : ERROR: Connection attempt has failed

Has anyone succeeded in upgrading his SunLink version ?
We have traced the x25 packets and can see some differences. Even though
the call is accepted by the PDP11, the second packet to establish
the connection is different from that sent by the old version
(we have currently set up a test machine with 7.0).
Does anyone know whether the above translation of the host entry
from 6.0 to the isoentity in 7.0 is correct ?
We have played around with the psel/tsel/ssel/nsap notation, but
didn't succeed.

Any help is greatly appreciated !

Claus
---
PS: Or should we switch to ISODE/PP ? Is this easier to install and maintain
    than the SunLink products ?
-- 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.misc
From: naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (Thomas Naughton)
Subject: Multiple video heads on Sparc 10 really strange!!
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 16:58:24 GMT

    OK, here's the situation.  I got a Sparcstation 10 running
SunOS 4.1.3, and I need to get more than one monitor attached
to the machine (initially just two).  I have two Sun GX boards
and they seem to install just fine (no errors on boot up, and
they seem to be recognized by the OS).
    I know that the hardware configuration works because the
whole setup works just fine with Openwindows by doing the
command:
	`openwin -dev /dev/cgsix0 -dev /dev/cgsix1`
everything comes up fine.
    However, if I try to start up the MIT X server (X11R4) along with
Motif, only one monitor comes up and the other remains dark.
    Now for the really strange part.  It won't work with two cgsix
cards in slots 2 & 3.  It won't work with two cgthree cards in slots
2 & 3.  It won't work with a cgsix card in slot 2 and a cgthree
card in slot 3.  However, it WILL work with a cgthree card in slot
2 and a cgsix card in slot 3!
    Sun hasn't been much help as they really only support their
Openwindows environment.  I'd really like to know what's going
on 'cause we're probably going to need at least one more monitor
on a Sparc 10 by the time this is over, and the extra speed of the
cgsix would be nice for our application.
    If anyone has any clue as to why this is behaving this way, I'd
love to hear from you.  Please E-mail any response and I'll post if
there is any resolution.
    Thanks.


-- 
Thomas M. Naughton	              "Love is chemistry, but sex is physics"
naughton@nauts.chi.il.us (prefered)   naughton@chinet.chi.il.us (alternate)
Nobody is responsible for anything I say or do but me.  Sometimes not even me.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: Reducing minfree on big disks
Organization: AT&T
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 13:11:44 GMT

In article <1992Dec14.135852.5413@netnews.whoi.edu> dhiltz@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu writes:
"The "tunefs" man page says, "..the minfree value can be set to
"zero, however up to a factor of three in throughput will be 
"lost over the performance obtained at a 10% threshold."  Why?

because the optimization is forced to 'space', whereas the default for
10% and above is 'time'.
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a_d_hay@att.com	|	zone in the darkened room at the night gallery	       |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: johnb@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca (John Benjamins)
Subject: Re: help with xdm -- pleeeeeeease...
Organization: C.I.S., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ontario, CANADA
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:05:57 GMT

In article <1992Dec12.055443.8995@plx.com> thomas@plxsun (Thomas Leibold) writes:
>Jeremy Payne (jrpg8255@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu) wrote:
>:   I've been pulling my hair out for some time now trying to get
>: xdm to work using SunOS 4.1.1 & openwindows 2.0.  I can get it
>: installed etc., but logging in results in a gadget-less xterm
>: in the upper corner and nothing else -- not what I had in mind.
>
>You are actually getting further than we did with Sun's xdm. On our system
>it's replaced with the MIT X11R4 xdm.
>It sounds as if you don't start a window manager for your session. Unless you
>use a X-terminal with buildin window manager, you need to run a  window manager.
>Your Xsession file should start a window manager for you, if you don't have
>a .xsession file in your $HOME-directory. If you have a .xsession file put
>the command to start the window manager there. For openwindows this is:
>	olwm &
>You may have other window managers available on your system too. 
>

If you start the openwin version of xdm properly, there's no major
problem.  In my /etc/rc.local I have (near the end):

if [ -f /etc/rc.xdm ]; then
        echo "Starting X Display Manager, xdm"
        sh /etc/rc.xdm
fi

and then in /etc/rc.xdm I have:

#!/bin/sh
#
# @(#)rc.xdm 1.0 26/02/92 -- johnb CIS
#
OPENWINHOME=${OPENWINHOME:-/usr/openwin}
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$OPENWINHOME/lib:/usr/lib
PATH=$OPENWINHOME/bin:$PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH PATH OPENWINHOME

$OPENWINHOME/bin/xdm -config $OPENWINHOME/lib/xdm/xdm-config

I have no problems with xdm at this point, works just like the X11R4
one again:-)

Hope this helps.
-- 
 //  E. John Benjamins -- <johnb@edge.cis.mcmaster.ca>
// "Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late.
\\  Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to."
 \\		- David Byrne (Talking Heads)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: sivbl@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Brett L Sivies)
Subject: format.dat entry
Organization: Victoria University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 21:28:40 GMT

Hello,

I was just wondering if anyone would have any idea on a format.data
entry for a SCSI Seagate Hard Drive

Segate: Model: ST4182E

Serial Np: WC253482

It has an Adaptec controller on it which has a product code of:
ADAPTEC: ACB-4525S4501

hope someone can help me..

bye
Brett Sivies

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From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: increasing disk cache size
Date: 17 Dec 92 23:56:40 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>The problem is that NBUF IS defined in SunOS, but only at the object level.  

Note that, as per my other postings, that's the size of the buffer cache
used for file system metadata only; it is *not* used for file data
(directories count as "file data", not "file system metadata", here).
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tkevans@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Tim Evans)
Subject: dump parameters on Exabyte 8200 w/Compression
Reply-To: tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com
Organization: DuPont Engineering Physics Laboratory
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 16:41:31 GMT

I've just installed one of those data compression boards on an
Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive, which purports to make the 2.2GB
drive into as much as a 5GB drive.  Prior to the upgrade, I was
using a tape size of 6000 feet, a block size of 100, and a density
of 54000.

First, is it necessary to change these parameters to take account
of the data compression?  Second, if so, what are suggested
alternative parameters?

Thanks.
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tkevans@eplrx7.es.dupont.com  |    Experimental Station
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: davecb@nexus.yorku.ca (David Collier-Brown)
Subject: Re: Using rdist instead of NIS/YP?
Organization: York University
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:46:11 GMT

Mr X asks:
|>Anyone out there using rdist instead of NIS/YP for passwd serving?

aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri) writes:
|I've done it with passwd, aliases, and hosts, and I recommend it highly.  You
|avoid the usual YP hassles, especially the line-length limitations.  [...]
|The only potential problem is that the users need to get into the habit of
|changing their passwords on the machine from which you rdist.

You can also cross-mount password files (ie, leave a symlink in /etc 
pointing to a passwd file on a shared partition).  

To make any remote passwd scheme allow distributed updaters, we used
a script for /etc/passwd that conected to a distinguished account on
the master passwd server via rsh, passing the username as $TERM (:-)).
The account's shell was a moronic password-changer.

This is reproducable dozens of ways: I still have a copy of an ancient
version which used ``on'' and was written in csh (:-().

--dave (on is a security hole) c-b
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ltran@netcom.com (Linh C Tran)
Subject: Help - Problem with newfs after reformatting
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 10:15:38 GMT

Help,

I have a MAXTOR disk drive that was causing many READ errors at various block
sector. I ran fsck and that didnot solve the problem.  So earlier, I decided to
reformat the disk drive cuz I have a "good" backup.  Since I am keeping all 
the information the same as before, I did not change the partition size at all.
I went ahead reformat the disk drive.  I am assuming that reformatting has 
solved my problem with with bad blocks.  I decided to newfs the disk drive.  
newfs displayed alternate boot blocks and came back at certain block with
I/O error.  What I am doing wrong ? What is the best way to reformat a 
disk drive so that I can make a new file system ?


Thanx in advance...

Linh Tran     ltran@netcom.com

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Subject: Re: patch for NFS lock manager bug
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 92 23:56:54 GMT

In article <15850@auspex-gw.auspex.com> guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris) writes:
>The Big Lock Manager patch is, at present, patch 100075-09; people here
>have already started a betting pool on when there will be a 100075-10
>patch....

	Ahh, yes, has anyone else noticed the nifty errors you get
when you have some machines running -08 and -09 patch versions?

--Dave
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#define ENOTTY          25              /* Not a typewriter */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: barr@pop.psu.edu (David Barr)
Subject: Re: Slave NIS Server Reboots -> Client Hangs?
Organization: Penn State Population Research Institute
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 02:33:13 GMT

In article <derosa.724088276@mica> motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net writes:
>In my network, I have one master and two slave NIS servers.  Clients
>out on the network bind to one of these servers.
>
>At some point in time, one of the slaves reboots either intentionally
>or by a fault.  When this happens any workstations that are bound to
>this slave server appears to hang.  I.E. the cursor goes away or no
>key/mouse click action.
>
>My question is, why does this happen?  Why doesn't NIS just rebind to
>another slave or master?  It appears that the client will not rebind
>for 5-10 mins.  Why so long of a timeout?  Can this be changed?

	Doncha just love NIS?  *sigh*.  There is a patch which
"fixes" it, but at a significant performance penalty.  Here's part
of the README for patch 100342-02:

-----
  Bug 1046416:

  If you bring a ypserver down into single user and then boot it into
  multi user by either typing control D or reboot, the yp clients
  will take a long time to rebind to the server.

********************* WARNING ******************************

  This is a new version of ypbind that never uses the NIS
  binding file to cache the servers binding. This will have
  the effect of fixing the current symptom. However, it might
  degrade the overall performance of the system when the
  server is unavailable. This is most likely to happen on an
  overloaded server, which will cause the network to produce
  a broadcast storm.

*************************************************************

-----

	Personally, I haven't applied this patch, but I'm tempted
to.  I'm sick and tired of NIS just going out the window whenever
an NIS client reboots.  Somehow I think Sun could have thought up
a smarter fix to the problem than this.

--Dave
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From: fpb@ittc.wec.com (Frank P. Bresz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sunlink X.25 Version 7 TCP/IP
Date: 19 Dec 92 14:16:52 GMT
Organization: Westinghouse, ITTC, Pgh, PA.

Hi All,

	We are using Sunlink X.25 7.0 for communications around the globe.
	Currently we route packets via a psuedo-net that looks something
	like this :

	My machine locally is
	129.228.8.238 ittc
	192.9.150.138   sts-x25ip
	192.9.150.238   ittc-x25ip

	Remotely I communicate with a machine with
	192.9.150.238  ittc-x25ip          # TCP/IP through X25  ITTC
	192.9.150.138  sts-x25ip           # TCP/IP through X25  STS
	129.228.43.1   sts1 loghost        # Server      D113    x821

	What we would like to do is the following:
	Somehow have my machine 'know' that 129.228.43.XXX lives out in X.25
	land without using the psuedo-net 192.9.150.XXX, as I am sure you
	can tell the 192.9.150.XXX is not a valid registered IP address and
	so we would like to do away with it.  Has anyone else out there had
	any success with this?  Currently my 'X.25 gate' looks like this :

fpb@ittc:emacs128==>netstat -r
Routing tables
Destination          Gateway              Flags    Refcnt Use        Interface
localhost            localhost            UH       3      276921     lo0
sun-B-ether          ittc                 U        39     7578009    ie0
x-25-synca           ittc-x25ip           U        0      1928       std0

	Where x-25-sync is 192.9.150 and sun-B-ether is 129.228.8.

	Please send email.  I will summarize if a lot of interest is
	generated.

--
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: "mark d'cunha" <mark.d'cunha@canrem.com>
Subject: christmas greetings
Reply-To: "mark d'cunha" <mark.d'cunha@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: comp
Date: 17 Dec 92 22:24:03 EST

TO:ljuno@dnbf01.bram.cdx.mot.com

Merry Christmas old chap!  Sorry I took so long to try this, but life
has been hectic in the Long Distance arena.  How's things with you?
Hope you have a nice Xmas and Santa is kind to you.  Ta for now...

Mark.
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From: oleg@gd.cs.csufresno.edu (Oleg Kibirev)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Custom shlib - getting it straight
Date: 19 Dec 92 10:11:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Departement of California State University in Fresno

While building  custom shared  libraries, I  have noticed  several interesting
"undocumented  features" left  by Sun for unsuspecting customers. I have heard
about more such features from other people as well. Can anyone  explain any of
this:

-  if  libc.so.*  is  compiled without -ldl  option, cc  will  get  unresolved
externals and  ldd  shows that /usr/lib/libdl.so.*  is not included.  However,
compiled programs run just fine! As well as ones  from  4.1.2  that don't know
anything about libdl.

If -ldl _is_  specified, existing  programs  appear  to include libdl *twice*,
doing to mmaps and apparently wasting some memory. From the other  hand, newly
compiled programs include libdl just one.

Looks like the problem is with cc refusing to link  in libdl if  a nonstandard
libc is present.  A wrapper to cc that appends  -lc -ldl to the end of options
works just fine, but this doesn't explain why I have to do this. I posted this
before, but never got an answer explaining why...

-  dbx  crashes  with  "error  reading  shared  library"  message  if anything
nonstandard is present (even if .pic thing is just ld'ed without any changes).
gdb works great in the same time. Is there a fix?

- Occasionally, make will fail complaining that "ld returned  error code 4" if
running  with custom library (again,  no matter  what  it is). In these cases,
BSD4.3 or GNU make works great. What did Sun  do to it's version? What is ld's
error code 4 anyway?

- Is there a way to generate libc.sa.* when making a custom library? 

- I suspect  that there are all-new problems  when rebuilding 5lib version  of
libc. Anyone knows if it's true and how to fix it? I didn't get to it yet.


Another,  somewhat  unrelated question...  I have  noticed  that  programs  in
system() call still have sh -c hanging around. Obviously, when a lot of copies
of application in question are running, shells do no good to swap space. I was
thinking about  having system() prepend  exec  to the  command  line. However,
looks like Sun's  /bin/sh  can't handle exec  of a builtin  gracefully. Do you
know  of  any  reasonably  compatible  sh  that  does?  I  could  put  it   as
/bin/sh.system...
From: aad@siemens.com. (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: using mail as root
Date: 10 Dec 92 22:27:28 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corp. Res., Inc.

>root via a tty line and noticed that mail doesn't 
>look at a .mailrc file when located in /

You're getting /bin/mail.  Change root's path to have /usr/ucb in front
of /bin.
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