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From: bengtl@maths.lth.se (Bengt Larsson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
Date: 13 Apr 92 09:17:52 GMT
Organization: Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden

In article <1992Apr5.101938.21082@draco.macsch.com> todd@draco.macsch.com 
(Todd C. Williams) writes:

[various things]

Yes, if the one you are addressing is a system administrator who has it as
his main job.  For a user, however:

  Emacs isn't free, and neither is elvis. You have to get them, configure
  them and compile them. A non-hacker can't do this. And how about support?

  What you are saying is that Unix absolutely needs a wizard. That's no news.
  But neither is it really desirable.
  
  Making programs hard to service makes about as much sense as making
  cars hard to service, because the auto technicians would like it.
  Right?
  
  Sendmail.cf is obscure. It even says so in the documentation :-)

Bengt Larsson.
-- 
Bengt Larsson - bengtl@maths.lth.se
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Help on Def. of rst0 and rmt8
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 16:17:37 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

>>  Kuan-Li> My knowledge of rst0 and rmt8 is that rst0 for 1/4" tape
>>  Kuan-Li> rmt8 for 1/2" tape.

The unspoken assumption is that you're talking about SunOS.

st devices under ConvexOS, for example, are stripes.  9 track tapes show up
as the old [r]mtn, where n is one or two digits.

MIPS puts tape devices under /dev/ctape with strange names.

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From: robin@resmel.bhp.com.au (Robin Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Thanks for wyse60 termcaps
Date: 12 Apr 92 23:44:32 GMT
Organization: none

Thanks everyone, I've now got wyse60 termcap entries coming out my ears :-)
One of therm's bound to do the job.

Thanks again,
Robin
-- 
Robin Brown, System administrator, BHP Research - Melbourne Laboratories
245 Wellington Road Mulgrave VIC 3184 Australia
E-mail: robin@resmel.bhp.com.au  ph: +61-3-560-7066  fax: +61-3-561-6709
From: kozowski@ohsu.edu (Eric Kozowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.shell
Subject: Help with admin shell script
Date: 15 Apr 92 17:08:41 GMT
Article-I.D.: ohsu.1992Apr15.170841.24802
Organization: Oregon Health Sciences University

I'm trying to write a shell script (preferably sh or ksh) that will add a
user and set their password.  I would like to be able to do this by just
giving the script a few command line arguments, one of which would be the
user's password (not encrypted, of course :-) ).
Here is what the command line should look like:

scriptname username uid password GCOS_comment

I've got everything to work, but the password mechanisim.  It should take
the non-encrypted password from the command line and do the equivalant of
the passwd command, or somehow stuff the password from the command line
into the passwd command.

TIA.

-- 
Eric Kozowski                | System/Network Administrator
kozowski@ohsu.edu            | Oregon Health Sciences University
			     | 840 SW Gaines Rd GH113
503/494-4537                 | Portland, Oregon 97201
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: vobbilis@daffy.cis.udel.edu (Suresh Vobbilisetty)
Subject: Tape backups
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 15:47:35 GMT


Hi,

Thanks for everyone who responded to my earlier posting about 
"Operator Accounts" and limited root access programs.We decided 
to use "op".

Now, I have a question about tape backups. Does UNIX support multi
volume-multi-saveset backup as VMS does ? 

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Suresh
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University of Delaware                             (302)454 - 7422 (h)   
Newark, DE 19711                                   (302)831 - 1949 (o)   
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: fredrp@tif28.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry)
Subject: Looking for performance measurement tools
Organization: Equipment Division, Raytheon Company
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 92 14:19:17 GMT

Hi,

I am looking for tools to measure the performance of an ULTRIX system.
I prefer something that can measure cpu, memory, and IO bandwidth
consumption of each process, as accuratley as possible, for an arbitrary
window of time.  The processes I need to monitor never terminate, so I can't
use accounting logs.  Please let me know if you have any dandy tools that
could be made to run under ultrix.

Thanks, 

-- 
**********************************************
 Fred Ross-Perry         Raytheon Company
 fredrp@mar.ed.ray.com   Equipment Division
 (508) 440-4481          528 Boston Post Road
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**********************************************
 Fred Ross-Perry         Raytheon Company
 fredrp@mar.ed.ray.com   Equipment Division
 (508) 440-4481          528 Boston Post Road
From: stank@snow.tek.com (Stan Kalinowski)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: Termcap Questions
Date: 16 Apr 92 20:15:12 GMT
Organization: /usr/ens/etc/organization

In article <801@shaman.wv.tek.com> stank@snow.tek.com (Stan Kalinowski) writes:
>
>It also appears that the Sun version of telnet lacks the "binary mode"
>option under "toggle" options.  Does this mean that Sun telnet can't
>do 8-bit transfers?  I'd like to know if anyone has a workaround.
>(I can build my own telnet from the tahoe sources, but I was hoping
>for something a little simpler.)

I know it's bad form to follow up to one's own posting but the answer
is so obvious it's silly...  use a "stty pass8".  In the words of Emily
Litella (a.k.a. Gilda Radner) "Neverrrr Miiiiind".

--
US Mail: Stan Kalinowski, Tektronix, Inc., Network Displays Division
         PO Box 1000, MS 60-850, Wilsonville OR 97070   Phone:(503)-685-2458
e-mail:  {ucbvax,decvax,allegra,uw-beaver}!tektronix!orca!stank
    or   stank@orca.WV.TEK.COM
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: datri@convex.com (Anthony A. Datri)
Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
Organization: Engineering, CONVEX Computer Corp., Richardson, Tx., USA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:45:07 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

>True, but in my opinion it's also important what a certain application
>shouldn't do. Emacs tries to do everything.
              ^GNU

>Today with GUIs etc.

GUI is a seriously abused term.  The obvious meaning of the term is that a
peice of software draws graphics instead of text.  It has, sadly, come to
imply bloated style specifications.

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: hbowser@dvorak.amd.com (Horace Bowser)
Subject: printing bitmap files
Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.; Austin, Texas
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 21:34:45 GMT

Can anyone tell me how one goes about printing bitmap images out
on a laser printer from an Sun or HP workstation?  Is there some
routine that i can run the file true that would format it in
some fashion (perhaps postscript) from printing?  Any info you 
can provide would be most helpful.  Thanks.

Horace
hbowser@auqis1.amd.com

Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.os.misc
From: fangchin@leland.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang)
Subject: Re: Question for net.views column in UNIX Today!
Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 21:00:06 GMT

|> /F{findfont exch scalefont setfont}def /S{moveto show}def /T{/Times-Roman F}def
|> 8 T(Ferranti International Controls Corporation)24 28 S(+1 713 274 5180)24 12 S
|> (Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012)24 20 S 12 /Courier F(`-_-')320 32 S( 'U` )320 16 S
|> 12 T(Peter da Silva)24 36 S 16 T(Have you hugged your wolf today?)358 24 S

larry Wall would be extremely pleased if you could rewrite your sig in
Perl :) :) :) :) 

Take easy,

Chin
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: indep-12@mathcs.sjsu.edu (Kuan-Li Ong)
Subject: Help on Def. of rst0 and rmt8
Keywords: rst0, rmt8
Organization: San Jose State University - Math/CS Dept.
Distribution: ba
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 06:05:33 GMT
Expires: April 30

My knowledge of rst0 and rmt8 is that
rst0 for 1/4" tape
rmt8 for 1/2" tape.

I would like to know what r-s-t-0 and r-m-t-8 stand for.

If you have any idea, please email me with you information to
	indep-12@sjsumcs.SJSU.EDU

Thanks.

Kuan-Li



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From: spacelab@milton.u.washington.edu (Jessie Chang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.mips
Subject: tftp time out booting X terminal
Date: 10 Apr 92 19:01:23 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Apr10.190123.22693
Reply-To: spacelab@u.washington.edu
Organization: SpaceLabs, Inc., Redmond, WA

Hi there,
   I encountered a problem when I try to boot several ( 3 at least)NCD
terminals all at the same time. ( Performed a power failure test) 

I use a MIPS R3330 as their configuration and font server.  Some of NCDs will
time out on tftp and kick into PROM mode and some will come up without being 
able to load fonts files.

   I try to change the /etc/inetd.conf's tftp from wait to nowait.  That causes
me more problrem due to the race condition.  I can't change the time-out
value in NCD since it is in the PROM.

Any suggestion, 

Thanks 

----
Jessie Chang     spacelab@u.washington.edu    (206)882-4003
Clinical Information System Group, SpaceLabs, Inc.
Redmond, WA
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From: allyn@netcom.com (Mark Allyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Termcap Questions
Date: 14 Apr 92 20:29:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: netcom.#ayjpyf.allyn
Followup-To: comp.unix.admin
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)


This is for a friend of mine who does not have access to Usenet. She has
a Silicon Graphics IRIS workstation connected to some dialup modems. The
IRIS is also on an ethernet with a Sun workstation among other machines.

The Sun is running Sunos 4.03 while the IRIS is running something
called IRIX which is their AT&T Sys 5 Unix.

She has a dumb terminal that she uses to call
the modems on the IRIS. The terminal happens to have 8 bits with no
parity.

When she logs into the IRIS, she can do a stty to set the terminal 
parameters with no problem. 

The problem occurrs when she uses rsh or telnet to log into the Sun from
the IRIS. The sun thinks she is on a 7 bit terminal. She cant do a stty
on the sun since the sun is talking to her via either a rlogin or telnet
connection. 

She needs some way of setting a termcap on the Sun that sets up the terminal
as 8 bits no parity. She would take the vt100 information, copy it and make
a new terminal designator and add whatever is necessary to make it an 8
bit no parity terminal rather than 7 bit which I presume is the default.
She does not know what she needs to do in termcap to declare 8 bits no
parity.

Can any of you out there help? 

Email to me or post to comp.unix.admin and I will pass your responses
along to her.

Thanks!

Mark Allyn
From: greenidd@CS.ColoState.EDU (danielle greenidge)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: SCSI Tape Drive (1/4")
Keywords: SCSI, quarter-inch, tape
Date: 8 Apr 92 20:53:10 GMT
Organization: Organization?  Why start now?

Just a note to all interested SCSI users:

I'm doing a little recon for my company regarding potential market interest
in an affordable (~$2000) 4 Gigabyte quarter-inch SCSI tape drive.  If this
sounds like a viable alternative to your current (or near-future) tape
solutions, drop me a little e-mail note with your machine type(s) and phone
number (optional).

Thanx,

---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Mark Spence (in exile at):  greenidd@mozart.cs.colostate.edu

A man asked God how much a million dollars was to Him. "About a penny."
The man asked how long a million years was to Him. "About a second."
The man asked if God could give him a penny. "Yeah...just a second..."

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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Subject: Re: 8mm tape racks/cabinets
Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
Organization: SCI Technology, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1992 16:39:15 GMT

In article <1992Apr3.195301.27905@cco.caltech.edu> jack@ccsf.caltech.edu (Jack Stewart) writes:

=I need some help in finding companies that make 8mm tape racks,
=cabinets, holders, etc.  So far I have found very little.  If you know
=the name of a company that sells this type of hardware, please send me
=some e-mail.  I will summarize the responses if there is sufficent
=interest.  Thanks in advance for any help.

Checked your local camcorder store? They should have all kinds of holders,
racks, cabinets, lazy susans, or whatever you might need. Probably at 
much better prices than any computer supply catalogs, too.

-- 
Gary Heston    SCI Systems, Inc.  gary@sci34hub.sci.com   site admin
The Chariman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
"Always remember, that someone, somewhere, is making a product that will
make your product obselete." Georges Doriot, founder of American R & D.
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Inetd errors with new ftpd
From: russell@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Russell Fulton;ccc032u)
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1992 05:14:14 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Apr  9 16:58:21 ccu1 inetd[234]: ftp/tcp: bind: Address already in use

I get this error in the syslog whenever I try to get inetd to use
a different ftpd. (I am trying to install wuarchive version.)

All I change in the inetd.conf file is the name of the program to
invoke and its invocation prarameters. In particular I have not 
touched /etc/services. 

The messages appear in the syslog as soon as the HUP is sent,
not when the first connection is attempted. (As far as I can
tell.)

I have done this before without problems so I assume that the
problem is with the new ftpd?

Any ideas where to look for the problem?

Thanks, Russell.
-- 
Russell Fulton, Computer Center, University of Auckland, New Zealand.
<rj_fulton@aukuni.ac.nz>
From: beck@manta.NOSC.MIL (Jeff Beck)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: NFS Mounting issues
Date: 17 Apr 92 14:29:52 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego


In setting up NFS which of the following scenarios would
be better ? 

========  #1 ==============
/etc/exports on "giver":

	/h
	
/etc/fstab on "taker":

	giver:/h/home1 /h/home1 nfs rw,soft
	giver:/h/home2 /h/home2 nfs rw,soft

========  #2 ==============
/etc/exports on "giver":

	/h/home1
	/h/home2
	
/etc/fstab on "taker":

	giver:/h/home1 /h/home1 nfs rw,soft
	giver:/h/home2 /h/home2 nfs rw,soft

The general question:  is it better to export multiple
specific directories, or a single parent directory of those
that will be mounted. What about performance issues?


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Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.mips
From: bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu ()
Subject: Re: tftp time out booting X terminal
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 09:43:37 GMT

pnessutt@qii.sialis.com (Robert A. Monio) writes:

>In article <1992Apr10.190123.22693@u.washington.edu> spacelab@u.washington.edu writes:
>>   I encountered a problem when I try to boot several ( 3 at least)NCD
>>terminals all at the same time. ( Performed a power failure test) 
>>
>>I use a MIPS R3330 as their configuration and font server.  Some of NCDs will
>>time out on tftp and kick into PROM mode and some will come up without being 
>>able to load fonts files.

>We have 2 RS1210s and we've encountered the same problem.  Apparently tftpd
>can't handle having multiple requests for the same file at the same time.
>We were told by MIPS to boot each unit individually so as to avoid the
>problem.  I don't know if this is a fix or not but it does seems to work.

>>   I try to change the /etc/inetd.conf's tftp from wait to nowait.  That causes
>>me more problrem due to the race condition.  I can't change the time-out
>>value in NCD since it is in the PROM.

>Hmm.  I hadn't thought of trying this, although I think I'll stay away from
>it based on the problems your having.  Good luck in resolving your situation.

i'm going to have to agree on it being the tftp server. we have the same
problems using ibm 130 xstations, and an rs6k mod 550. when i fire up 
the bootpd and tftp processes to allow the xstations to boot, if i turn them
all on at once, then most will fail to start.

--
bill@chaos.cs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp)
Subject: Re: Password admin question
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Distribution: comp.unix.admin
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 03:41:21 GMT

wallis@psychosis.ssc.gov (Dave Wallis) writes:

>Here's a question for large site administrators:

>I am responsible for adminstration of about 80 (and growing) Unix
>workstations. On a fair number of them, some non-admin types need to
>have the root password for reasonable reasons. In order to limit the
>access of these users, I have divided the machines up into about 10
>groups, each of which will have a separate root password. My plan is
>to change the passwords once a month, to keep them from propagating
>too far.

Have sudo or op been ruled out for some reason? Either one of these programs
will let you grant limited root access (limited to what commands can be done)
while logging what is done and by who without giving out the root password.

Peter Van Epp / vanepp@sfu.ca
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: tr@samadams.princeton.edu (Tom Reingold)
Subject: Re: Password admin question
Organization: Noo Joizy, USA
Distribution: comp.unix.admin
Date: 10 Apr 92 15:51:51 GMT

navarra@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (John Navarra) writes:

$ 	We have a program called 'passgen' on our machine. I am not sure
$ if that is local to Sun or publically available. It is in /usr/local/bin.
$ Not all of them are pronouncable and I believe they all include some
$ special character. There are ways to set up password aging. As superuser,
$ the passwd -a option will tell you that info. See passwd.1 for further
$ info on this.
$ [...]

If someone knows the algorithm that "passgen" uses, he can guess what
someone's password is.  While people often choose bad passwords, they
can learn to choose good ones.  Programs cannot learn to choose good
ones.  For example, if passgen uses the time of day to choose a random
number and from that derives the password, a cracker only needs to know
when the program was run to guess the password.
--
        Tom Reingold
        tr@samadams.princeton.edu  OR  ...!princeton!samadams!tr
        "Warning: Do not drive with Auto-Shade in place.  Remove
        from windshield before starting ignition."
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: wallis@psychosis.ssc.gov (Dave Wallis)
Subject: Re: Password admin question
Reply-To: wallis@psychosis.ssc.gov
Organization: SSC Laboratory, Dallas, TX
Distribution: comp.unix.admin
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 23:13:46 GMT

In article <vanepp.702877281@sfu.ca> vanepp@fraser.sfu.ca (Peter Van Epp) writes:


   Have sudo or op been ruled out for some reason? Either one of these programs
   will let you grant limited root access (limited to what commands can be done)
   while logging what is done and by who without giving out the root password.

   Peter Van Epp / vanepp@sfu.ca

An additional restraint is that people other than real systems
administrator will have access to only a subset of the machines.
Different people, different subsets. sudo would work (I haven't really
ruled it out), except that a different config file would be required on
each machine. Guess that's at least no worse than having different
entries in the /etc/passwd file on each machine. I would, however,
prefer to be able to change *all* the root access passwords myself on a
regular basis - forget most users ever changing a password! And many
users feel free to pass out their passwd like a halloween treat,
regardless of (because of?) being urged not to. Call me paranoid, but
that doesn't mean that they're not really out to get me!

I'm still interested in finding out how others deal with
the reality of having a bunch of admin-type passwords that need to be
changed from time to time - how do you pick them, remember them, etc.

Also, thanks to all who have responded to me directly - so many, in
fact, that I'll probably not be able to acknowledge each message. But
if it seems appropriate, I'll post a summary when it dies down.
--
Dave Wallis (wallis@psychosis.ssc.gov)
SSC Laboratory,
Dallas, TX
(214)708-3410
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: keith@ksmith.uucp (Keith Smith)
Subject: Re: Help! Communications setup for a Wyse-50.
Organization: Keith's Computer, Hope Mills, NC
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 92 01:47:15 GMT

In article <tim.702923259@andy> tim@hssc.scarolina.edu (Tim White) writes:
>
>    Anyone got a manual or know how to set baud rate,parity
>  for a Wyse-50?
>

No,  REALLY?  If you are SERIOUS try <SHIFT>-<SETUP>.

The arrow keys move the highlighted selector on the bottom line, and
changes lines.  The space bar rolls the highlighted entry thru the
possibilities. Answer 'Y' at Save for power on to save settings.

>    Thanks.

Your welcome.  Now If you want how to do this from the cpu ( I always
thought setting baud rate / parity / stops / etc from the cpu was really
a DUMB capability.  I mean you gotta know where you were to begin with
right? So then a random string of characters and ...) E-mail and I'll
copy the manual pages and send them to you.

>--
>==============================================================================
>Tim White University of South Carolina 
>tim@otis.hssc.scarolina.edu Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory 
>(803)-777-7840 Columbia, S.C. 29208

-- 
Keith Smith          uunet!ksmith!keith            5719 Archer Rd.
Digital Designs      BBS 1-919-423-4216            Hope Mills, NC 28348-2201
Somewhere in the Styx of North Carolina ...
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
From: vobbilis@mars.cis.udel.edu (Suresh Vobbilisetty)
Subject: Server behaving strange
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 00:28:47 GMT



Hi everybody,

Our SparcServer 670MP is behaving strange lately. It was down when we came
in morning (reasons unknown yet) and after the boot up, we changed a couple
of PROM parameters (input and output device to keyboard and screen resp.).
Fine. After the changes, root, say x, sent shutdown messages, but everybody 
on the net got the message as it was from someone else, y, who doesn't have
any root priv. on the system. Worried, we rebooted it.

The story doesn't end here, "who" "users" "w" show different users at 
different times after the bootup. Some (who, users, w) doesn't show the 
users that others do and visa-versa. Panic.

I am new to UNIX as a sysadmin. and so is my boss, any help in this regard
is greatly appreciated. 

Thanks,
Suresh.
PS: Server is running SunOS 4.1.2 and NIS, NFS installed.
-- 
*************************************************************************
Vobbilisetty Suresh                                vobbilis@cis.udel.edu 
University of Delaware                             (302)454 - 7422 (h)   
Newark, DE 19711                                   (302)831 - 1949 (o)   
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