HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: shenai@aprax.eng.uab.edu (Aravind K. Shenai)
Subject: Hard Disk Crash
Originator: shenai@aprax.eng.uab.edu
Reply-To: shenai@amnese.eng.uab.edu
Organization: Biomedical Engg, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 20:23:23 GMT

Hi
	My external disk, which was working fine, does not respond any more. 
When I boot the m/c and fsck goes to check the filesystem, it quits
with the following ERROR msg:

can't open /dev/rsd3a 
(null): CAN'T CHECK FILESYSTEM
(null): UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY

When I run fsck manually on that filesystem, it gives the error msg.

can't stat /dev/rsd3a

And if I run fsck on the entire system, fsck gives  can't open ...
error msgs for all the filesystems on the disk (Acropolis ASI-3S-1045). 

I have some important data sitting in that disk that I need to retrieve. 

This happened after I had done a total system shutdown and I had done it in
the proper way, i.e sync halt & so on... 
I checked for any write protection mech. There is no such feature. 

The workstation i had this connected is a SPARCstation IPC. 

What went wrong? And also, is there a way I can retrieve that data?
This is my first disk prob. so any help/pointers will be highly
appreciated!!


Aravind

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: jdell@benazir.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe)
Subject: Re: ftp log-ins rejected
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 23:27:40 GMT

On Wed, 30 Sep 1992 19:21:31 GMT, fisher@ncselxsi.uucp (Chuck Fisher) said:

> I have a SPARCstation 1+ running SunOS 4.1 in a small heterogeneous
> vendor network.  I can successfully telnet and use uccp via TCP in
> both directions between network clients.  I'm am *not* running NIS nor
> NFS.

> When I attempt to ftp to the Sun, I receive a "530 Access denied user"
> message as soon as I enter the userid.  Even if I ftp the Sun to
> itself, I get the same error.  The system does not even prompt for the
> password, but rejects the connection as soon as I specify the userid.
> I can successfully ftp from the Sun to other systems on the network.
> Another strange thing is that I *can* connect to the Sun when I log in
> as "root".  If I enter a userid in uppercase, the password is
> prompted and then the connection denied.

If you are using a login shell (i.e. tcsh, ksh, zsh, ...) and it's not
in the /etc/shells file, then ftp won't allow it.  Root worked because it
uses /bin/sh, which should be in the /etc/shells file, or else it may not
check for /bin/csh or /bin/sh.

John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcgraw@sunspot.sunspot.noao.edu (Robert McGraw)
Subject: How to set up and manage two spools to the same printer
Organization: National Solar Observatory/SP, Sunspot NM, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 22:27:42 GMT

I have a Tektronix Phaser PXi color PostScript printer which support
both plan paper and Transparencies.

I would like to set it up so that plane paper goes to one spool and the
Transparencies go to another spool.  This is not a big problem.

I would also like the users to be able to stop one spool and start the
other.  Does anyone do this at their site. If so could you pass along
any info on how you handle this.

Thanks
Robert


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From: jfg@spiderman.bu.edu (John F. Gibbon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Sun Fax
Keywords: Sun Fax
		I am looking for a modem that I can attach to
Date: 1 Oct 92 13:42:55 GMT
Organization: Information Technology, Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
Originator: jfg@spiderman.bu.edu


my Sun Sparcstation and use to send faxes.  Can I use any generic
modem to attach to my SparcStation?  What specific software do
I need to control it?  What software converts ascii files or
postscript files to fax compatible files?

					Many Thanks For Any Suggestions,
		
						John Gibbon
						jfg@spiderman.bu.edu
From: dodd@mycenae.cchem (Lawrence R. Dodd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Size of swap file
Date: 6 Oct 92 11:19:15
Organization: Dept of Chemical Engineering, Polytechnic Univ, NY, USA
	<1992Oct6.173338.16762@aio.jsc.nasa.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mycenae.cchem.berkeley.edu
In-reply-to: walker@superboy.jsc.nasa.gov's message of Tue, 6 Oct 1992 17:33:38 GMT


>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Walker <walker@superboy.jsc.nasa.gov> writes:

  Doug> |> have 16M swap files right now....do I need to increase them or not?
  Doug> |> And should they be increased to 64M or somewhere between 16M and 64M?
  Doug> |> 
  Doug> |> --
  Doug> |> Dave Pascoe
  Doug> |> Internet: pascoe@rocky.gte.com
  Doug> |> 

  Doug> Um, hate to say this but the reccommended size of the swap file is 2.5
  Doug> times the size of RAM so your swap file should have been 40 meg with
  Doug> 16M ram and should now be 160M.  Before doing this I think I would see
  Doug> if you have any problems with running out of memory.  If not I would
  Doug> leave it alone.

Doug is right.  I have 64Mb on my IPX and need ~128Mb in swap space.  I eats
up lots of space on the internal disk.

Is this need for swap to equal 2-2.5 times RAM typical or unique to SUN?



Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kardel@darkstar.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Frank Kardel)
Subject: Re: Internet time standard?
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1992 06:48:07 GMT
Keywords: time, standard, rtime

unruh@physics.ubc.ca (William Unruh) writes:


>Does there exist an internet time standard that I can consult for the
>correct current time ( eg, like NBS or Naval Observatory, both of which
>have modem time services) For example is there a machine kept on
>accurate time that one could use rdate on?

Look at NTP (Network Time Protocol - Version 3).

You'll find all information about it via ftp on

	louie.udel.edu:/pub/NTP

in doc/clock.txt you'll find reference hosts.

--
  Frank Kardel
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: chris@bit.com (Chris Kennedy)
Subject: Problems with NIS clients and NIS+ servers
Keywords: nis+, solaris 2.x, disaster
Organization: Berkeley Investment Technologies, Inc.
Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1992 17:35:02 GMT

Recently we made the somewhat questionable decision to upgrade a SS2 NIS master
running 4.1.2 to Solaris 2.0.  Among the more annoying traits of Solaris is the
fact that while it can be configured as a NIS or NIS+ client, your only 
choice on the server side is to run NIS+. 

Fine.  We configured NIS+ for YP compatability mode and jumped through all
the other hoops described in the AnswerBook (a truly entertaining work, if
somewhat less than ideal as a technical reference).  Dispite all of this,
NIS clients had difficulty binding to the Solaris master.  "Difficulty"
meaning than ypbind would take some nodeterministic amount of time ranging
from minutes to hours to bind, and once bound would unbind and rebind at
random intervals.  This behavior was observed on all clients regardless of
vendor.

Sun tech support ("You have the Bill Joy autographed edition?  *giggle* We'll
have to call you back" *click*) was unable to provide any help.  We
eventually reconfigured a 4.1.2 machine as the NIS master and reconfigured
the Solaris machine as a NIS client, providing symptomatic relief.

If anyone has had better luck with this I'd appreciate a note detailing
how they went about it.

On a different topic, does anyone have a way to disable the "enter root
password" prompt when booting Solaris 2.x single user?  At one point
the /etc/shadow file got munched making it impossible to log in or to
get into maintenance mode; Sun's helpful suggestion was to reinstall the
system.  The culprit seems to be /sbin/sulogin, but I lack sufficent 
information to replace it with something more benign.

BTW, if anyone would like a description of the joys of installing and/or
living with Solaris, drop a line :-).

Thanks!
-ck

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: hbo@octel.com (Howard Owen)
Subject: Re: /usr/etc/mount -vat lo  SunOS 4.0.3 Weirdness
Summary: The Net Comes Through!
Keywords: Yippee!
Organization: Octel Communications Inc., Milpitas Ca.
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:37:31 GMT

  Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) Came through with the right
answer in about 3 hours, from the Netherlands. I love Usenet!

> From uunet!fwi.uva.nl!casper Wed Sep 30 13:56:50 1992
> Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:47:01 +0100
> From: uunet!fwi.uva.nl!casper (Casper H.S. Dik)
> To: hbo@octel.com
> Subject: Re: /usr/etc/mount -vat lo SunOS 4.0.3 Weirdness
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
> References: <1992Sep30.163100.18940@octel.com>

>>  We use loopback mounts here to help with architecture transparency.
>>When we reboot our Sun3s running SunOS 4.0.3, the mounts fail. 

>Check the PATH set in rc.local and when using rsh. It should include
>/usr/etc, because that's where the mount_lo program recides.
>
>I don't remember whether 4.0.3 did have
>PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/etc:/usr/ucb; export PATH
>in rc.local, but both the PATH=.. and the export are important
>for mounting the uncommon fs types.
>
>Casper
-- 
   This was the answer. We have modified rc.local on our 4.0.3
machines to include "export PATH", which it was missing. The mount_lo
obviously occurs in a subshell. Loopback mounts now work fine!

Thanks,
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: db@sunbim.be (Danny Backx)
Subject: Re: PC-Xview crashes our PC very often.......
Reply-To: db@sunbim.be
Organization: Sun Microsystems
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 92 07:25:12 GMT

In article 6236@klaava.Helsinki.FI, vhalkka@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Vesa Halkka) writes:
> The software is just buggy.. NCD bought GSS PC-Xview and
> hurried it to the market.

Not quite true. But let's not fight about details.

The current version of PC-Xview for Windows is much more stable than the earlier ones.
Just try it...
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	System Engineer

E-Mail: db@sunbim.be    (or uunet!mcsun!ub4b!sunbim!db)

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From: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SPARCprinter
Date: 2 Oct 92 15:53:02 GMT
Reply-To: brown@ftms.UUCP (Vidiot)
Organization: Vidiot's Other Hangout

In article <1992Sep28.172700.7280@EE.Surrey.Ac.UK> L.Chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung) writes:
<Does anybody know whether the SPARCprinter is compatable with any other
<system. Can I use it on a PC via a parallel port ? If so, what printer
<type should I select.

No you can't.  It is a Sun Printer for SPARC compatible workstations.
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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Size of swap file
Date: 6 Oct 1992 21:31:37 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: telecaster.think.com

In article <1992Oct6.152359.1013@europa.asd.contel.com> pascoe@rocky.gte.com (Dave Pascoe) writes:
>What is the general guideline for the size of a swap file?  I have two
>SPARC-2's running 4.1.1 and I just upgraded from 16M of RAM to 64M.  I
>have 16M swap files right now....do I need to increase them or not?
>And should they be increased to 64M or somewhere between 16M and 64M?

Argh, when will people stop posting those silly	"swap = N x RAM" myths (and
if this info is coming from vendor documentation, it should be ripped up --
I think the tech writers may be getting kickbacks from the disk vendors).
Didn't we all learn about the working set model of virtual memory in our CS
curricula?

Yes, swap space should be at least as large as memory, because crash dumps
go into the swap partition.  Other than that, there's no specific
relationship between swap and memory sizes.

Swap needs to be big enough that you can run all the simultaneous programs
you need to run.  It contains the data and swap spaces of all the running
processes.

Main memory needs to be big enough that you don't page too much.

Swap space governs total system capacity, main memory size governs
performance.

Here's a concrete example: suppose you want to be able to have ten windows
open on your workstation, each running an interactive application that
takes up 10MB (according to the SZ column in ps).  You'll need at least
100MB of swap for this (plus swap space for system processes, shells, the
window system, etc., but we can ignore them in this discussion), so that
the virtual memory of all these applications can be stored.  However, since
these are interactive applications, only one of them is ever active at a
time.  You could probably get by with 20MB of RAM; this would hold the
memory of the currently active application, as well as system memory.  When
you first switch to a different application it will be slow as it pages in,
but pretty soon it will all get into memory and run quickly.

If you want to be able to switch back and forth between two of these
applications without lots of paging, then you would probably want to double
your RAM.  If you want to be able to switch between any of the ten
applications swiftly then you would want as much RAM as swap (actually,
even more, since you also need RAM to hold the text segment of programs,
and these don't go into swap).
-- 
Barry Margolin
System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

barmar@think.com          {uunet,harvard}!think!barmar
From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: ID'ing Sun models remotely
Date: 1 Oct 1992 08:04:19 GMT
Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
NNTP-Posting-Host: gandalf.think.com

In article <1992Sep30.211942.29381@i88.isc.com> mikebo@i88.isc.com (Michael Borowiec) writes:
>Is there a way to identify the various Sun models within an architecture.
>For example, I want to be able to tell the difference between and SLC
>(4/20) and an ELC (4/25) without having to get up and walk over to the
>machine... Is there a way to do this?

Write a program that calls gethostid(2) and then decodes the idprom.machine
field using the constants in /usr/include/mon/idprom.h.
-- 
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System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,ek.programming
From: dennett@cyclone.Kodak.COM (Charles R. Dennett)
Subject: Re: Poblem with .openwin -init
Organization: Eastman Kodak Co., Rochester, NY
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 92 12:47:01 GMT

In article <1992Oct5.201225.14114@pixel.kodak.com>, bak@bak.kodak.COM (Bruce A. Kern) writes:
>I have a customer running OpenWindows 3.0 an a Sparc loaded with SunOS 4.1.2.
>When the user logs in the .openwin-init file contains a command:
>
>/usr/scanner/bin/ss_controlX Scanner1 -Wp 90 118 -Ws 638 516 -WP 130 0
>-Wi -Wg &
>
>The process being started complains about a bad command line and issues
>its usage
>message.  Note that the arguments following Scanner1, "-Wp 90..." are
>for the OpenLook window manager so that it can control the screen geometry.
>
>When the same command is executed from the command-line the command
>parsing procedes normally and the process starts up nicely.  I have
>never seen this problem with OpenWindows 3.0 and SunOS 4.1.1 and do not
>have a 4.1.2 system available to try it out on.
>

The only suggestion I can think of is to start a shelltool in your
.openwin-init file and then supply the above line as an argument to
shelltool.  See man shelltool for details.

Charles Dennett / Rochester Distributed Computer Services
                / Customer Technical Support Services
Office: 1st Floor B-65 Rm 1514 Phone: 588-6078   Pager: 783-7872
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.wanted,comp.sys.sun.app
From: pava@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Public Affairs Video Archives)
Subject: FAX Software Suggestions, Please
Organization: Purdue University
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 21:07:43 GMT

We just received our FAX modem and are in the process of looking for
FAX software.  We primarily want to FAX batches of listings to several
customers.  The relationship of customers to listings is N:N

The output format is pretty flexible.  We can go postscript,
straight text, nroff/troff, etc...

What is your favorite FAX software and why?!?!?

Please email. If there is enough interest, I will compile a list and 
post.

rob
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: peram@cs.tamu.edu (Suresh B Peram)
Subject: Sparc 1 - Console hangs
Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1992 14:56:06 GMT

Hi,

	We have a number of sparc stations here and we frequently
	experience console hangs, i.e., no response on the console
	from the keyboard.  We are however able to remote login
	and reboot the system.  Tese hangs seem to occur sometimes
	when you exit from X incorrectly, sometimes when 'amd'
	tries to contact the file server and fails etc. 

	Is there any program which can restore the console to a
	usable state ?

	Thanks for any response and help.  E-mail preferred because
	I don't read this group very often.

	Thanks

	Sparc1 - SunOS 4.1.2 - remote file systems mounted from file
	servers - amd

Suresh
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: johns@cs.umr.edu (John Stone)
Subject: Need binary dist of X11R5 for Sun 4/110   Where??
Date: Sun, 4 Oct 1992 22:51:50 GMT
Organization: University of Missouri - Rolla
Originator: johns@mcs213c.cs.umr.edu




Hi there,
I need a binary distribution of X11R5 for my Sun 4/110.
I don't have much free disk space, (~70mb at best)
so I can't compile it myself.  What I want is just a pre-compiled
binary distribution with clients etc.  

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks,
        John Stone
        johns@cs.umr.edu

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: etnrwi@hisoy.etn.ericsson.se (Raymond A. Wiker (9482))
Subject: Problems with two-sided printing
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AS
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:19:39 GMT


	We have an HP Laserjet IIId connected to one of our servers,
set up for double-sided printing. It works, but the burst page comes
on the same sheet as the first page of output. Is there any way to
force either lpd or enscript to output a single blank page between the
burst page and the actual text? (Hacking the PostScript header files
is acceptable, but a non-preferred option...)

aTdHvAaNnKcSe,

	//Raymond.

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From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: SPARCprinter
Date: 1 Oct 92 22:11:36 GMT
Organization: cic

L.Chung@ee.surrey.ac.uk (L N Chung) writes:

>Does anybody know whether the SPARCprinter is compatable with any other
>system. Can I use it on a PC via a parallel port ? If so, what printer
>type should I select.

No, it is not compatible to any other system I know of. Sun designed
the printer to be used as a cheap raster engine, to be fed pixels
over a fast synchronous line (pixel data and pixel clock, if I
remember correctly).

The "PostScript" is Sun's xnews server, running on the SPARC CPU.
That's why the software is called NeWSprint, it prints via NeWS.
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Xref: sparky comp.sys.sun.admin:6813 comp.sys.sun.apps:2112
From: matthew@sunpix.East.Sun.COM (Matthew Stier - Sun NC Development Center)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps
Subject: Re: SUMMARY- Backup Copilot tape library trubbles
Date: 30 Sep 92 16:36:01 GMT
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Research Triangle Park, NC
NNTP-Posting-Host: data.east.sun.com


In article <1992Sep29.211102.23578@asl.dl.nec.com> drinckes@csl.dl.nec.com (Doug Rinckes) writes:
}
}#! /bin/sh
}# Get hostname from command-line, default to `/usr/bin/hostname`.
}hostname=${1-`/usr/bin/hostname`}
}# Specify dumpex's command-line
}dumpex="/usr/etc/dumpex -n ${hostname}"
}# Specify dumptm's command-line
}dumptm="/usr/etc/dumptm -C ${hostname} -l "
}# Specify sort's command-line (sort by year(6), month(3), day(4), time(5))
}sort="/usr/bin/sort +6 +3M +4 -5"
}# Specify echo's command-line
}echo="/usr/bin/echo"
}# Run dumpex, scroll a line, run dumptm and sort the result.
}${dumpex}; ${echo}; ${dumptm} | ${sort}
} 
} 
}Many thanks to:
}  Brian.Berliner@Central.Sun.COM   Brian Berliner
}
}

Wouldn't you know that the original request came right after I fixed the
script to handle years correctly, but ended up inserting another bug.

The options for sort need to be "+6 -7 +3M +4 -6".  If the changes are
not made, any non-matches after column 6 will stop the sort and leave 
you with some unsorted entries.

Sorry for the problem.


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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,alt.sys.sun
From: ayr@gtech.com (Aleksey Y. Romanov)
Subject: Re: Seeking FORMAT.DAT entry for Micropolis 1528 Disk
Organization: GTECH Corporation, West Greenwich RI
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 14:50:13 GMT

In article <1992Sep28.212259.20365@terminator.cc.umich.edu> metzler@pablo.physics.lsa.umich.edu (Chris Metzler) writes:
>My boss recently purchased two Micropolis 1528 SCSI disk
>drives.  Does anyone have format.dat entries for these
>suckers?
>
>If not, could someone clarify for me the difference between
>"data, alternate, and physical" cylinders?  The admin manual
>is no use, and the docs that came with the drives only say
>"Cylinders:  2100."
>
>Thanks for the help!
>
>		-- Chris

Call Micropolis tech support. They have a very good guy who knows everything
about micropolis under SunOS



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