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From: jxh@certes.icd.teradyne.com (Jim Hickstein)
Subject: Exabyte spits out tapes and dies
Keywords: exabyte tape sony header
Organization: Teradyne, Inc. San Jose CA
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 21:44:55 GMT

I've been using Sony P6-120MP tapes in my Exabyte EXB-8200 for a while with
no real problems.  Then one day I bought some new tapes and discovered that
the drive would eat a fresh one, spit it out, and then accept it thereafter
without complaint.  So far, so good.  Just stand there and watch it when you
feed it a brand-new tape.

BUT!  Recently, it has started failing even on the second attempt, and it
takes a reboot to clear the condition in the drive.  Once it gets stuck,
no tape will make it happy, even one that it has previously written on with
success.

Sorry if this is a re-hash, but I haven't watched this group for a while.
Can someone tell me (a) what's wrong, (b) what ROMs I need to fix it, or
whatever, and (c) what better workaround there is, short of rebooting the
entire machine?  Send me mail and I will summarize to the newsgroup.

Thanks very much.

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From: surfdog@ossi.com (John Onusko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Solaris 2.1 NFS weirdness
Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:44:47 -0800
Organization: Open Systems Solutions Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: akasha.ossi.com

cbarber@bbn.com (Chris Barber) writes:

>In article <C1DtA8.5w4@lysator.liu.se> pen@lysator.liu.se 
>(Peter Eriksson) writes:

>>We're having severe problems getting our SS1+ that runs Solaris 2.1
>>to NFS mount filesystems from a HP9K3?? running HP-UX 8.0 and a
>>Pyramid 90x running dualPort OSx 4.1. The error we get from our
>>SS1+ when trying to NFS mount anything from these machines is:
>>
>> "...RPC: Authentication error; why = Invalid client credential"
>>
>>Has anyone else seen this and have any suggestion how to fix this?

>Sounds like you are running NIS+ on the Solaris machine and it is
>unable to get authentication credentials from the HP machine. I 
>think what you need to do is to run NIS+ in compatability mode
>and create some local credentials for the HP machine. At our site,
>we have had all sorts of problems using NIS+, and have given up on
>using it at all and merely set up our machines as NIS(YP) clients.

I had this problem last week. It had nothing to do with nis(+). The problem
was that "root" was in too many groups in /etc/group. I made sure that root
was only in six or so groups and the problem went away. The bug is in Pyramid's
RPC library.
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From: toma@db.TC.Cornell.EDU (Rory Toma)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: xrdb and .Xsession
Date: 27 Jan 93 19:37:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: db.TOMA.93Jan27143742
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Not bloody likely around here!

I have several Sun 3's running Xkernel 1.5. What I'm having trouble
with is that when I do an xrdb from within the >xsession startup script,
it does not properly set up my resources, in fact, it doesn't do
anything. I can run xrdb after I log in, but by then, all of my windows
are up, so that's not much use.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
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You want me to upgrade to System what?
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Setting up a postscript printer....
Date: 28 Jan 1993 20:37:25 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <1k7ff1INN492@sheoak.ucnv.edu.au> rosi@redgum.ucnv.edu.au (rosi punton) writes:
>
>There is a program called lprps on the net (I forget where) which 
>
>works for a postcript printer connected to a bi-directional serial channel
>and deals with banners and filters for text or postcript files, plus
>postcript page reversal...


Thhat sounds like what I might be looking for.
Thank you! I'll hunt it down.

Thomas.



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: flog@open.ch (Florian Gutzwiller)
Subject: Re: Compuserve's Internet Address
Reply-To: Florian.Gutzwiller@open.ch
Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 21:14:24 GMT

Trying 35.1.48.159...
telnet: connect to address 35.1.48.159: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 35.1.48.160: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 35.1.48.165: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused


So much about the swiss perspective of things ...

-Florian
Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:10888 comp.sys.sun.hardware:7177
From: gross@maxwell.ucsc.edu (Mike Gross)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: How slow can my RAM be (Sun4)
Date: 29 Jan 1993 02:03:11 GMT
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
NNTP-Posting-Host: maxwell.ucsc.edu

Hello,
   I'm barely surviving with an old Sun 4 with 8Mb of RAM that is continually
filling up (I'm running xdm). It appears that I can get my hands on another
8 1Mb 100ns SIMMs. The question is, are 100ns SIMMs too slow for a Sun 4?

Thanks a bunch.

Mike Gross
Physics Board and Lick Observatory
Univ of California                       GO SLUGS!!!!
Santa Cruz, CA 95064
gross@lick.ucsc.edu
From: bob@hobbes.dtcc.edu (Bob Rahe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Caveats for upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.3 ?
Date: 28 Jan 1993 13:32:04 GMT
Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: hobbes.dtcc.edu

In article <1k50u7INNe0d@news.cerf.net> pushp@nic.cerf.net (Pushpendra Mohta) writes:

>I am helping a small university plan a Sun OS upgrade on an IPX from
>4.1.1 to 4.1.3.

>Caveats/Gotchas beyond whatever the Sun documentation will
>hopefully provide will be appreciated by email.

  I just did this about 2 weeks ago on this system (an SS2) and was very
pleasantly suprised at the ease of the installation.  I was on 4.1.1b with
OW2 and NewsPrint 1.0.

  Since NewsPrint 1.0 was fine for what we were doing with it and we don't
have it on support etc. we didn't upgrade it. So it had to be re-installed
using the small-openwin option since it won't work with OW3.  That was
pretty simple tho, if you've kept track of the customizations you have done
over the year(s).... (This is discussed in the back of one of the OW3 docs.)

  Got that working, then installed OW3. No problems there.

  Installed 4.1.3.  No problems there, just remember, if you are running
NewsPrint and you are gonna use the GENERIC-SMALL kernel you need to go in
and turn on the LWP and ASYNCIO options.

  I use the modified shlib stuff for DNS only so I had to upgrade that, and 
also put in a few of the sendmail/OW3 etc. patches, most of them in the docs.

Worked suprisingly easily, tip-o-the-hat to Sun on this one.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu (Robert I. Benett)
Subject: Re: Compuserve's Internet Address
Organization: U of Minnesota, Natural Resources Research Institute
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 01:53:11 GMT

In article <1993Jan15.232826.7807@oclc.org> pallas@oclc.org (George Pallas) writes:
>ddo@wsun2.larc.nasa.gov (Dale Ohmann) writes:
>: The problem comes with internet names that our name resolver can't 
>: resolve.  One example is "compuserve.com".  A user's address would 
>: be of the format: "12345.123@compuserve.com".  On another brand 
>: machine I can send mail to Compuserve.  On the Sun that I'm 
>: configuring I can't.  The mail comes back as "deferred".  Actually,
>: in the mail spool directory, the message is 
>: "Deferred: Name Server Failure for compuserve.com".
>
>Make sure /etc/resolv.conf is properly pointing to your DNS name
>server(s).
>
>: A quick fix might be to find out what is the Internet address for
>: Compuserve is and add it to the local host table.
>
>NOT!
>-- 
>--
>George Pallas
>Manager, Systems Management Section
>OCLC, Inc.


The above note indicates that someone wants to email to a Compuserve user.  
Seems like I've heard of that working.  What I'd really like to know is if
you can use Compuserve via Internet as if you were using the (usual) dialup
connection.

Anybody know??


Bob Bennett
bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu
(218) 723-4914
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Are Sun's libraries unbundled also?
Date: 22 Jan 93 04:23:49 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>Even though the compiler has been unbundled, are the libraries
>still included in the system?

Yes (at least as of the Early Access version of Solaris 2.1 we have
here).

You may have to install some optional *component* of the Solaris release
to get them (and the include files, and the "C Compilation System" tools
in "/usr/ccs", such as the linker and assembler), but they are bundled.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: davidc@panix.com (David B. Chorlian)
Subject: Network configuration help needed
Summary: Help requested for network configuration
Keywords: Internet, routing
Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 03:28:03 GMT


   Where I work, our small network of mostly Sun workstations is to be
connected to Internet.  After some study of _TCP/IP Network Administration_
by Craig Hunt, there a number of questions about routing that I cannot
answer.  Perhaps I need to get more information from the campus network
administrator about the details of the campus network.


   Our campus has the class-B address 138.5.0.0.  Our network has been
assigned the subnet address 138.5.120.0.  The gateway on the campus is
138.5.1.1.  The campus topology looks like

      Internet
	|
      138.5.1.1
         |
         |     campus backbone
   ------------------------------------------------------
                           |
                        bridge
         138.5.110.0     |   |      138.5.120.0
            --------------   --------------------------
                                 |                |
                              138.5.120.n    138.5.120.m

My understanding of the bridge is that it will adaptively segregate
packets between the backbone and the subnetworks on the other side,
but not between the two subnetworks.

As we are not connected, our 
broadcast address:  138.5.120.255,
netmask: 255.255.255.0, 

On being connected is it
1)
broadcast address:  138.5.255.255,
netmask: 255.255.0.0,
gateway: 138.5.1.1
OR, interpreting both 138.5.110 and 138.5.120 to be part of one
subnet
2)
broadcast address:  138.5.31.255,
netmask: 255.255.224.0,
gateway: 138.5.1.1
OR
3)
no change.
??

My understanding is that 1) will work, but it seems indiscriminate
in distributing packets; 2) & 3) make access to the gateway
uncertain in the light of the examples in _Net..Admin_, & 3)
leaves it uncertain as how to access 138.5.110.0 (will 138.5.1.1
send packets back?)

Please reply by email; seems wasteful to post a reply.

-- 
David B. Chorlian
Neurodynamics Lab
SUNY/HSCB 
davidc@panix.com
From: l4x092@rick.cs.ubc.ca (Anthon Su Tong Pang)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Phantom FS errors? (REPOST)
Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:56:17 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, University of B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: keats.rick.cs.ubc.ca

For the past month (since adding a single NFS client--Sun 3/75--to our
Sun 3/50), we've been plagued with phantom FS errors.  Everything runs
fine for a while, but then jobs (new or already running) start to die
like flies complaining about filesystem related problems.

For example, when compiling gcc 2.3.3 on the client, 'make' eventually
dies complaining about a bad object file.  We 'sync' up and run 'fsck'
on /usr on the server.  Many errors are reported (partially allocated
inodes, truncated inodes, bad mode, etc).  Since /usr has been mounted
read-only by the server and client through out, we decide NOT to let
'fsck' repair the filesystem.  Instead we 'reboot' the server.

We've installed the UFS and NFS jumbo patches for 4.1.1.  But everything
runs fine if we only use the server...when we run these (disk intensive)
"torture" tests on the NFS client, FS errors are reported.

Does anyone know of a possible cause for these 'now-they're-here'
and 'now-they're-not' filesystem errors?  And how do we get rid of
them?

Our suspicion is that the super block in memory is getting munged (since
the problems disappear after a reboot).

Oh, and while I have your attention...'reboot' always halts with a
BUS error on our 3/50.  Is there a fix for this?

Many thanks in advance.

--
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From: bob@sna.co.umist.ac.uk (bob nutter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Bringing a Sun to it's knees
Date: 28 Jan 93 14:54:28 GMT
Organization: UMIST Computation, PO Box 88, Manchester, UK

In article <1k1s47INNb5u@almaak.usc.edu>, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
> Here at USC I've routinely hit a 20-process (per user) limit.
> This is on a 670MP server.
> How might it be done?

X

-especially if you're running X users via xdm. MAXUSERS from the kernel
Makefile is used to set the max number of processes in param.c. We recently
had about 8 users, all running X, and we easily hit the process limit on a
SS2.  I remade the kernel with MAXUSERS 16, which is what it is on our 630MP,
and it's happy now (if you can call a machine with a load average of 45 happy
:-)

bob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au (Barry Lightbody)
Subject: Stacker software for Sun
Reply-To: barryl@mongoose.tansu.com.au
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 09:20:54 GMT

Does any know of any IBM PC Staker like software for the Sun computers?.

We need to dump to a file system from Sybase and it would be ideal to have 
the Stacker type of software sitting underneath the OS to perform compression
on the dump files on the fly. This way we could squeeze a 3GB data base dump
probably into a 1.3->2.0 GB disk with a bit of luck rather then have to use
a hard disk >= 3GB in size.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
From: marvo@asl.uni-bielefeld.de (Markus Vogt)
Subject: Keycode Assignments for use by xmodmap
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 12:09:05 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, ASL.

Hello,

I have problems in setting up the Sun Type5 keyboard attached to a
SPARCstation 10 correctly.

On the console screen (right after the login process) I can use 
the grey cursor keys, but when I start XWindows, XWindows seems 
to change the keycode assignments.  These keycodes differ from the 
codes I found in the 'Sun Type5 Keyboard Product Notes', which 
came along with the SPARCstation 10 package.

I won't be able to use the grey cursor keys unless I modify the keymap 
using 'xmodmap'.  The file I feed to xmodmap contains the following lines:

  keycode 27 = Up
  keycode 31 = Left
  keycode 34 = Down
  keycode 35 = Right


Is there a way to have a global keycode assignment instead of having 
each user include the xmodmap command with his '.xinitrc' file?
Or could I prevent XWindows from changing keycode assignments?

I would appreciate any help,

Markus

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From: phanes@hal.COM (Pamela D. Hanes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: ps and Solaris 2.1
Summary: ps not working
Keywords: ps, Solaris 2.1
Date: 25 Jan 93 20:01:46 GMT
Followup-To: phanes@hal.com
Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.


  Ever since I upgraded a local IPC running Solaris 2.0 to Solaris 2.1, 
  I have been unable to do a ps on the system.  It doesn't matter which
  ps I use (ie.  /usr/bin/ps or /usr/ucb/ps), I get the following error:

  ps: ftw() failed, Operation not applicable

  Has anyone else seen this error?  Any idea what may be causing it, or
  how I can fix it?

  ~Pamela D. Hanes
  Systems Administrator
  HaL Computer Systems, Austin
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: derekt@pwcs.stpaul.gov (Derek Terveer)
Subject: Re: print filter (/etc/printcap : if=) too persistent
Organization: City of St. Paul Public Works
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:08:48 GMT

Paul Shannon (pshannon@iapetus.cv.nrao.edu) wrote:
: It looks to us as if lpr builds a tightly connected set of processes
: which includes lwf, and that this set is slow to disassemble.  If
: a new request is made to lpr quickly enough, it seems to figure that
: it's reasonable to send the new file down the same path as it sent 
: the last one.  
: But since it's eminently reasonable to use 1 printer for both ordinary
: text and postscript, and since it's entirely plausible that a number
: of print jobs could arrive at the host computer at almost the same
: time, the behavior of lpr seems pretty dumb to me.
:   pshannon@nrao.edu

I ran into the same problem before, and i agree that lpd seems to be
out-clevering itself in attempting to optimize its input queue if there
are jobs waiting at the completion of any particular job.  I never
really found a solution that was elegant.  I replaced the filter with a
hand written hack job that looked for various characters, etc. to start
a new job, but it never really worked 100% of the time.  sigh.

derek
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hiren@mtu.edu (Hiren Shah)
Subject: Both, Motif and Openwin on a SPARC 2 ?
Organization: Michigan Technological University
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 03:25:01 GMT
X-Posted-From: teksun.teknetix.com
NNTP-Posting-Host: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

 
Hi:
 
I would like to find out as to what is involved in running Motif and Open
window applications at the same time
i.e. can I run a motif application(with Motif style windwows) and 
a openwin application(with openwin  style windwows) on the same display ?
 
If I can, What window manager should I be using ? or that doesn't matter?
 
If this is a faq could you please direct me to it ...
Thanks in advance ...
 
Hiren
 
Please mail replies/suggestions to :
hiren@teknetix.com
From: litauer@informatik.uni-koblenz.de (Christoph Litauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Placement of openwin configuration files
Date: 21 Jan 1993 08:33:19 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Koblenz
Distribution: world
Reply-To: litauer@infko.uni-koblenz.de
NNTP-Posting-Host: bruch.uni-koblenz.de

Well,
I wonder where openwindows (3.0) places the configuration files of some
of its tools (like binder, cm, ...). In particular I have the following
problem(s):
(1)	I called the binder, created a personal entry for some type of
	file and saved this configuration. Next time I started
	openwindows, the entry was gone. Where does the binder save it's
	configurations?
(2)	When I press the help-key or choose help from the desktop menu
	the following message appears at my console:

helpopen: starting new Viewer
helpviewer: can't find document: handbooks/top.toc.handbookNo such file
or directory
helpviewer: error opening "handbooks/top.toc.handbook"
usage: helpviewer file | view-link
helpopen: Viewer could not display document: handbooks/top.toc.handbook

	Where can I find these handbooks?

Thanx in advance

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From: stan@beldar.ncsl.nist.gov (Stan Janet)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Contemporary Cybernetics tapedrives
Date: 27 Jan 93 16:01:06 GMT
Reply-To: stan@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
Organization: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD

In article <C1E0GA.BoK@news2.cis.umn.edu> bob@sparkie.nrri.umn.edu (Robert I. Benett) writes:
>
>We have a Contemporary Cybernetics tapedrive and are having a little confusion.
>The thing is a 5GB (Cy-8500) model with the compression option and when first
>powered up with a blank tape, shows ~18GB remaining (normal).  But as soon
>as we write anything to the tape it goes to 8200 mode, showing ~8GB remaining
>and we're running out of backup space *way* to early.
>
>The question:
>	How to get the thing into 8500 mode and make sure it stays that way

I'm pretty sure your drive IS in 8500 mode. When the tape is loaded,
the display gives an estimate of how much it thinks it can write.
But it doesn't know until it sees your data -- a filesystem of text
files will obviously compress better than a one of JPEG-compressed
images. The 8Gb you see after you start writing indicates you are
getting mediocre compression in 5Gb mode. It's conceivable that you
are getting 4x compression of your data in 2Gb mode, but that's really
high lossless compression.

To be sure, dump a small filesystem to the no-rewind tape device (ours
is /dev/nrst1). When the dump is complete, turn off the compression (the
red-lit button on the back). I suspect the display will say you have
4+ Gb remaining rather than 1+ Gb.

The 25Gb (that the Contemporary Cybernetics ads show) is a number I suspect
you'll see only in best cases. Using dump(8), I back up ~11Gb of data (plus
considerable filesystem overhead) from two servers to two tapes in 5Gb
mode with compression. If it weren't for the fact that a lot of the 11Gb is
already-compressed image data, we'd see better results (although it's
unlikely I could get that much onto a single tape). I have two sets
of dumps of my workstation's filesystems (1.1Gb each, plus filesystem
overhead) on another tape, and I still have 4.6Gb remaining. I'm satisfied
with the product.

Regarding the filesystem overhead: dumping / (4218 Kb used) generates
4.95Mb for the tape, and /usr (68209 kbytes used) generates 77.3Mb. And
there is some overhead for filemarks between dump files as well.

  -- Stan Janet
     stan@magi.ncsl.nist.gov
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