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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: Sys5 admin gripes (was Re: Uh-oh, Solaris 2.1 is here...)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 15:24:41 GMT

In article <1jpvrcINN41h@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us> mju@mudos.ann-arbor.mi.us (Marc Unangst) writes:
>Agreed.  SCO is finally starting to learn this, I think; in ODT 1.0
>and 1.1, there was NO supported (or documented!) way to add users
>other than using their interactive menu-based tool (sysadmsh).  I
>think there still is no officially supported alternate method, but at
>least they've bothered to document their C2 security extensions in
>ODT 2.0 so you can build your own tools.
>          
	Heh.  I took an old copy of AT&T svr3.2 and grabbed /bin/login,
	/bin/passwd /etc/adduser /etc/deluser and /usr/bin/passmgmt
	and put them on my ODT2.0 system.  No more /tcb or auth
	problems.  Now all my standard user tools work just fine.


-- 
	I am created Shiva the Destroyer; Death, the shatterer of worlds!
	Who is this dog meat who stands before me now?
	That's the biz, sweetheart.
Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters)
Subject: Re: /dev/ttyp* modes and openwindows
Organization: Computing Center, Mississippi State University
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:56:07 GMT

In article <1993Jan20.215257.3549@bradley.bradley.edu> pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman) says:
: I've seen this problem several times over the last couple of
: years of administering Suns of various types.  It seems to be
: getting to be more of a concern with the newer SunOS (4.1.2 and
: 4.1.3), where /etc/rc has a chmod 644 /dev/tty[pqrs]*.

Someone has been modifying your /etc/rc file then.  As shipped by Sun
in SunOS 4.1.3 it does a chmod 666, not 644.

: Whenever ttyp* is mode 644, and someone starts OpenWindows,
: they cannot open any shell or command tools.  If I go in and
: chmod 666 /dev/ttyp*, it works fine.  Obviously, the problem
: is that the windows can't write the device unless ownership is
: changed or the mode is 666.

This is correct.  That's why the default is to chmod to 666.

: Why doesn't openwin deal with this?  Is there something I'm supposed
: to configure that I haven't?  I've looked at /etc/fbtab, but with machines
: on a network, you can't just blindly assign ownership of /dev/ttyp* to
: whoever logs onto the console.

Well, keep in mind that openwin (cmdtool/shelltool in particular) DOES
deal with the permissions as they are set by default.

The ideal solution would be for cmdtool/shelltool to be setuid root so
that they can change ownership and permissions on the device files.
Unfortunately, they weren't written to be setuid.  Problems occur if
you make them setuid (and it would probably open security holes as
well).

So your best bet is probably to change the 644 in /etc/rc back to 666.
That isn't ideal but it appears to be the best that you can get without
modifying cmdtool/shelltool source or using some other terminal program
like xterm.
--
Frank Peters  -  UNIX Systems Programmer  -  Mississippi State University
Internet: fwp@CC.MsState.Edu  -  Phone: (601)325-7030  -  FAX: (601)325-8921
From: twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Setting up a postscript printer....
Date: 25 Jan 1993 19:31:51 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Civil Engineering, U.B.C., Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: sam.civil.ubc.ca

In article <1k1edhINNe84@iskut.ucs.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>
>...
>sort. It worked fine if I just cat the file and bypass lpr. But of
>course we don't want this. :) This was only for testing purposes.

Ooops, I forgot to mention that I realize if I use "lpr -h" to suppress
the burst page, it'd work too. But I should do things properly by using
a proper filter. So thanks in advance for any help.

Thomas.

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: munish@eustis.cs.ucf.edu (Munish Jain)
Subject: Running SunOS 4.1.x on Classic's
Keywords: SunOS 4.1.x, Classic
Organization: University of Central Florida
Distribution: comp
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:33:56 GMT

hi

Sometime back there was some discussion going on here about running
4.1.x instead of Solaris on Sun Classic workstations. I missed it.
Can someone help me how to run SunOS 4.1.x instead of Solaris on
the Classics ?

Thanks in advance,

munish
munish@cs.ucf.edu

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From: mchiarin@jade.tufts.edu (Marc Chiarini)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Transition to Solaris 2.1
Date: 25 Jan 93 08:38:04 GMT
Distribution: inet
Organization: Tufts University - Medford, MA

Here at Tufts CS we've been moving from SunOs 4.1.1 to Solaris 2.1 on a new
Sparc 10 server called Allegro.  We recently made an error that caused us
much pain and suffering so I just thought I'd notify people.  In migrating
our NIS services on our old server to NIS+ on Allegro, I replaced Allegro's
/etc/services file with the old server's /etc/services file.  As a result,
a daemon responsible for security, lockd, was no longer configured properly
in /etc/services on Allegro.  This, in turn, caused the NFS daemon, nfsd,
to fail with an extremely cryptic error message everytime we ran it (some
message saying there was a bad file number).  Once we replaced Allegro's
/etc/services with the original, everything ran smoothly.  So, my advice is
to either use the administrative files that come with the new OS, or if you
have to keep information from your old system, try to merge it with the 2.1
/etc files instead of overwriting.  Incidentally, does anyone know how I
can make our SunOS 4.1.1 clients start looking to Allegro as their NIS
server (I know about NIS-compatibility mode but have had no luck yet)?

Marc Chiarini
Tufts University
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				-- M.A.C --
                         The Friendly Systems Guy
From: nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun Solaris 1.x on new Sun Classic
Summary: Sun Stupidity
Date: 25 Jan 93 00:25:56 GMT
Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-

In article <1ji0gvINNc90@gap.caltech.edu>, jack@ccsf.caltech.edu (Jack Stewart) writes:
> In article <1993Jan19.152059.2146@searchtech.com>, kelly@searchtech.com (Kelly Thompson) writes:
> > 
> > Has anyone been able to load Solaris 1.x on the new Classic ?
> 
> My understanding from the Sun Engineer at the local sales office is
> that Sun modified the Boot Prom on the Sun Classic and LX so that they
> would only run Solaris 2.X or higher.  Apparantly they were worried
> that users were not moving to Solaris 2.X fast enough...
> 
> I would yell at Sun about this stupidity.  If enough people complained
> perhaps they would offer a PROM kit.  This "enhancement" of the boot
> prom has not altered my timetable for moving to Solaris 2.X but it has
> cost Sun some sales (from our department - there is no point in buying
> a bunch of machines that will sit around for 6+ months).  If your Sun
> sales rep. neglected to mention the Solaris 1.X incompatibilty problem
> perhaps you could get Sun to take the machines back.

     It has definitely cost them some sales.  We need more workstations and
didn't want to spend big dollars on the more expensive IPX.  The Classic looked
like a great alternative, until I found out it could not run Solaris 1.X.

     Our application depends on a number of Sun-Link products, which aren't
yet available under Solaris 2.x, so we can't move to 2.X even if we want to.
Sun tells me they won't be available until the middle of this year, which
probably translates to Dec 15th.  At any rate, the wait is unacceptable so now
we are looking into clones.

     It amazes me how companies become arrogant and try to drive the market
when they get large rather than remaining market driven.
From: mike@nit.pactel.com (Mike Cantu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: BSD 4.4 automounter and Solaris 2.x
Summary: Will it work?
Keywords: amd
Date: 21 Jan 93 20:47:44 GMT
Organization: Pac*Tel Corporation

Has anyone tried it yet?
-- 
Mike Cantu
mike@nit.PacTel.COM
From: jas@vash.ebt (Jim Stiles)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: how to erase traces of old NIS slave server
Date: 21 Jan 93 21:52:52 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: /u/jas/.organization


We used to have a slave server which has long since been
decommissioned.  However, we frequently see references to it when we
do NIS transactions (such as a make of the NIS maps).  For the life of
me, I can't figure out where these references come from, or how to get
rid of them.  Does anyone out there have any pointers for me?

Many thanks.

   Jim Stiles
From: kpearce@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Laserwriter <==> IPX via Ethernet???
Date: 21 Jan 93 09:29:01 CST
Organization: University of Kansas Academic Computing Services

Is it possible to attach an Apple Laserwriter (IIg) via Ethernet to a group
of Sun workstations (IPX)?   I've had no problem attaching it using the
serial port.  I've had no problem attaching the Laserwriter to our Ethernet
network so long as you are talking Appletalk to it.

Does the Laserwriter have an Ethernet address?  Is it possible to tell the 
Suns that address, assign an IP number, and somehow get them to talk???

Thanks in advance,

Ken Pearce    kpearce@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu (Robert McGraw)
Subject: network talk
Keywords: network talk
Reply-To: mcgraw@zeeman.sunspot.noao.edu
Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 22:41:54 GMT

I am looking for a network talk notifier that will notify users on all
open sessions that a talk message has arrived.

Anyone know of such a beast.

Thanks
Robert



_______________________________________________________________________
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System Manager                 INTERNET:rmcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu
National Solar Observatory/SP  SPAN: 5355::RMCGRAW or NOAO::RMCGRAW
Sunspot, NM 88349 USA          PHONE: (505) 434-7038


Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jdd@cdf.toronto.edu (John DiMarco)
Subject: Re: Are Sun's libraries unbundled also?
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:19:41 GMT

In <1993Jan22.033653.19048@ra.msstate.edu> fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:

>In article <1993Jan21.164604.16413@dtint.uucp> tom@dtint.uucp (Thomas R. Kimpton) says:
>:                                                     My question
>: is: Even though the compiler has been unbundled, are the libraries
>: still included in the system?  Or do they only come with the
>: compiler. This way I could use gcc, but use Sun's libraries.

>Yes, they are included.  As are the include files and other peripheral
>stuff needed to compile programs.  Basically, all that is missing is
>the compiler itself (and the debugger).

And lint, unfortunately. 

John
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John DiMarco                                              jdd@cdf.toronto.edu
Computing Disciplines Facility Systems Manager            jdd@cdf.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto                                     EA201B,(416)978-1928
From: reza@poseidon.ae.utexas.edu (Alireza Vali)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Can tapes be duplicated using one drive?
Date: 27 Jan 93 17:14:34 GMT
Organization: Center for Space Research, University of Texas @ Austin

Is there a way to make a dumb copy of a 9-track tape using a single
tape drive?  Our system is a Sparc 2, SunOS 4.1.2, and I have a
Qualstar 9-track tape drive.  Any help is appreciated.  Thanks.

-- 
Ali R. Vali - reza@poseidon.ae.utexas.edu
From: bjr@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Bernie Rauscher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Setting Timezone?
Date: 25 Jan 93 04:03:16 GMT
Organization: University of Chicago, Astronomy and Astrophysics

I found the answer in the FAQ.
From: louis@krabat.marco.de (Ju"rgen Fluk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SunOS 4.1.2 tmpfs and "ld -s" bug ?
Date: 22 Jan 93 15:09:46 GMT
Organization: marco GmbH, D-8047 Karlsfeld

we're running SunOS 4.1.2 on a SS2, /tmp is mounted as tmpfs:
	$ df /tmp
	Filesystem	kbytes	used  avail capacity  Mounted on
	swap		 20812	 692  20120	 3%    /tmp

trying to link a program with
	/usr/5bin/cc aroff.o lang.o -s files.a strings.a -ll
(aroff.o has lex source, therefore -ll), no problem.

but if we run
	/usr/5bin/cc aroff.o lang.o -s files.a strings.a -ll -o /tmp/a.out,
the size of the output file is the same, but the content is different
(seems to be always the last 4k block). this normally hits the initialized
data area, which may or may not cause core dumps of this program.
and the changes are different for different compiler runs.

no problem if run
	/usr/5bin/cc aroff.o lang.o files.a strings.a -ll -o /tmp/a.out
	strip /tmp/a.out

so it seems like the linker has problems stripping an output file on
tmpfs system. is this a known bug ? there are patches for tmpfs, but
the readme's don't help me for this problem.

i could provide .o and .a files (uuencoded), but i don't want to waste
bandwidth for the first step.

louis
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rich@progress.COM (Rich Lenihan)
Subject: Stand-alone sparcClassic?
Summary: Can you run a sparc Classic as a stand-alone system?
Keywords: sparc classic
Organization: Progress Software Corp.
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 15:19:40 GMT

I've just received (third-hand) information from a Sun sales guy
that in order to run a Sparc Classic I need to have a boot server
on the network.  Is this true?  Assuming I have a CD-rom drive
and a local disk, can't I do everything I want locally without
going over the network?

-Rich

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Progress Software Corp.      Internet: rich@progress.com
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From: axel@apl.Washington.EDU (axel schweiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.graphics,comp.text.frame,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: MacIntosh PostScript to EPSI using ps3epsi
Date: 21 Jan 1993 21:21:28 GMT
Organization: Polar Science Center
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: fram.apl.washington.edu

Using release 2.0 Rev. C of NeWSprint I have finally our SUN gotten to print Mac
Postscript files under NeWSprint. In order to to import postscript files into
FrameMaker (or other packages) I usually converted them to EPSI format using
a program called ps3epsi that I found on the net. However this program seems to
be using teh Xnews server in OpenWindows 3. that doesn't understand Mac PostScript

Does anyone know how to setup ps3epsi to use the xnews server that comes with
the NeWSprint cd (small_openwin)

Please Email

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jwjang@kaist.ac.kr (Chang Jin-woong)
Subject: cannot format optical hard: Help!
Organization: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8]
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 93 05:13:17 GMT

I use SparcStation 1+ with Pinnacle Micro's REO-650 magnetoptical hard disk.
(Media is sony SMO-D501)
When I tried to format a brand-new disk with the format program supplied by
Pinnacle, I got the following messages;

> Ready to format. Formatting cannot be interrupted
> and takes 19 minutes (estimated). Continue? yes
> Beginning format. The current time is Wed Jan 20 14:01:52 1993
> 
> reo0:	Error for command 'format'
> 	Error Level: Fatal         Block: 0
> 	Sense Key: hardware error
> 	Additional Sense: focus failure
> 
> Block 0  (0/0/0), Fatal non-media error (volume overflow)
> failed
> 

If you have similar experience with this and solution, please mail me to;
Chang Jin-woong
jwjang@baram.kaist.ac.kr
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: eilif@itek.norut.no (Eilif Pettersen)
Subject: Newsprint ver 2.0
Reply-To: eilif@itek.norut.no (Eilif Pettersen)
Organization: FORUT Information Technology
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 09:49:50 GMT


I'm a new subscriber to this list and quite a novice to sun system management so pardon me if you have been through this before.

Problem:
Randomly (at least for me), newsprint kicks a process, eehelper, which writes to a file /tmp/eexec."seq-number". The problem is that /tmp/eexec."seq-number" is using all diskspace available. ie 10 Mb free - 10 mb used, 40 Mb free - 40 Mb used.
Questions:
What are eehelper doing and why does it allocate all available diskspace?
Is it a bug in Newsprint ver 2.0 or isn't our system tuned as it should be?

Anyone??
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From: exudnw@exu.ericsson.se (Dave Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: format.dat for Fujitsu M2624FA wanted
Date: 21 Jan 93 23:00:14 GMT
Reply-To: exudnw@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems
X-Disclaimer: This article was posted by a user at Ericsson.
              Any opinions expressed are strictly those of the
              user and not necessarily those of Ericsson.


Got this from a vendor (NPI) - it works better than the others I tried.

disk_type = "M2624FA" \
        : ctlr = SCSI \
        : trks_zone = 11 : atrks = 11 : asect = 3 \
        : ncyl = 1440 : acyl = 2 : pcyl = 1442 : nhead = 11 \
        : nsect = 64 : rpm = 4400 : bpt = 35840

partition = "M2624FA" \
        : disk = "M2624FA" : ctlr = SCSI \
        : a = 0, 22528 : b = 32, 67584 : c = 0, 1013760 \
        : g = 128, 450560 : h = 768, 473088


Use "MD21" instead of "SCSI" if running SunOS earlier than 4.1.2

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= exudnw@exu.ericsson.se                                                =
= David Williams              "You can't win, you can't break even,     =
= Ericsson Network Systems     and you can't quit"                      =
= Richardson, TX 75081                                  my opinions...  =
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hughm@brwal.inmos.co.uk (Hugh McIntyre)
Subject: Re: Bringing a Sun to it's knees
Organization: INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:03:20 GMT

In article <1993Jan25.221022.28758@ra.msstate.edu>, fwp@CC.MsState.Edu (Frank Peters) writes:
|> In article <T6AXBYAV@cc.swarthmore.edu> eoliver@ralph.cs.haverford.edu (Erik Oliver) says:
|> [stuff deleted]
|> 
|> If you look in /sys/conf.common/param.c you will see that MAXUPRC (the
|> number of processes per user) is set to 5 less than the total number of
|> processes available.  Keeping in mind that the overwhelming number of
|> Suns are single user-at-a-time desktop workstations this makes sense.
|> You don't want a single user workstation holding back a bunch of
|> process slots for other users that aren't going to be there.

Since (on this machine at least) there are at least 20 daemon processes owned by
root any normal user is unlikely to ever get to 5 processes less than the total
limit.  You probably want a smaller limit.

|> You can prevent this, of course, by modifying param.c to set MAXUPRC to
|> something more conservative.  Thats what we do on our multiuser
|> systems.  Exactly what to set it to depends upon your usage patterns of
|> course.


Hugh McIntyre.
INMOS, Bristol, UK.
From: aad@siemens.com (Anthony Datri)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Licences in Solaris 2.n
Date: 19 Jan 93 22:39:15 GMT
Organization: Siemens Corporate Research, Princeton (Plainsboro), NJ

>>Now if they'd unbundle OpenWindows and put the C compiler back... :)

>Why?  You *liked* that crufty bundled compiler??

It *worked*.

>They sent me a rather nicer
>one on CDware volume 4 this morning.  >-)

How big was the check you sent them first?

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: adh@cbnews.cb.att.com (andrew.d.hay)
Subject: Re: parity errors for sparcstation 1
Organization: guess
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:22:53 GMT

kakazu@cornell.edu writes:
[]
"The one line that the messages have in common is: "bad module/chip at:  U589". I
"assume this gives me the needed information on which SIMM is bad, but I don't
"know how to  "U589" to an actual SIMM on the board.

u589 is the component id of the simm socket in the motherbd assembly;
you should find it silkscreened on the board next to the socket, or
labelled on a board layout drawing in the hardware manual.

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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: gday@sashimi.inde.bc.ca (Gordon Day)
Subject: Re: Compuserve's Internet Address
Organization: INDE Electronics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:55:11 GMT


Ummm, how about:

#####.####@CompuServe.com

where the #####.#### is the user's compuserve address?

Ta,

Gordon.
_______________________________________________________________________________
gordon day, inde electronics, +1-403-430-1446.

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From: kreisel@amsaa-cleo.brl.mil (Robert G. Kreisel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: cannot format optical hard: Help!
Date: 22 Jan 93 13:30:39 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity

In article <1993Jan20.051317.6449@worak.kaist.ac.kr> jwjang@kaist.ac.kr (Chang Jin-woong) writes:
>I use SparcStation 1+ with Pinnacle Micro's REO-650 magnetoptical hard disk.
>(Media is sony SMO-D501)
>When I tried to format a brand-new disk with the format program supplied by
>Pinnacle, I got the following messages;
>If you have similar experience with this and solution, please mail me to;

Are you sure the media you are using is compatible with the drive?  We
recently purchased two Pioneer drives for our SPARC 2's.  I attempted
to format an optical disk that I had, and was unsuccessfull.  So I called
the drive people, and they explained that optical disks have no "standard'
format at this time (like floppies, etc.).  He did tell me which disks
were compatible.  I use the DEC-702 made by Pioneer and now have no problems.
He also explained that there are two main types of opt. disks and I forget
what those are.  Sorry I have no hard, fast answers for you, but hope
this helps!

-rob
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc