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From: chytil@hp4at.eunet.co.at (Georg Chytil)
Subject: mysterious console message (FAQ alert ?)
Organization: EUnet EDV Dienstleistungs GmbH A-1010 Wien Austria
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:06:17 GMT

(maybe connected with running a remote backup input via dd) I got 
thousands of 
sun vmunix: redirect (0) to f8160ed0

A fd f8160ed0 does not show up in pstat -f .
I assume that this is no normal condition :-)
Can anyone give me a clue about this ?

				Thanks

					Georg

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From: schorr@ead.dsa.com (Andrew J. Schorr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Running out of mbufs
Keywords: SunOS mbuf
Date: 4 Sep 92 15:27:56 GMT
Organization: Daiwa Securities America, New York

Last week I posted a message concerning a SparcStation 1
running SunOS 4.1.2 that repeatedly hangs (every 10 days
or so) because it runs out of mbufs.

It gives error messages before it freezes that look like this:
Aug 25 04:13:06 ead2 vmunix: mbuf map full
Aug 26 02:47:51 ead2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped
Aug 26 02:54:24 ead2 last message repeated 18 times
Aug 26 02:57:16 ead2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped
Aug 26 02:57:25 ead2 vmunix: le0: out of mbufs - packet dropped

A number of people have responded, but no one seems to have
a definitive solution.

Halvard Halvorsen suggested increasing the MAXUSERS parameter
(presumably this will cause the kernel to allocate more mbufs). 

Brad Albom mentioned a problem he's having that relates
to the number of mbufs allocated to data steadily
increasing over time.  (I don't think this is my problem,
since this number seems to fluctuate up and down for me.)

rjq@phys.ksu.edu (Rob Quinn) suggested looking for relevant patches.
a906270@tiuk.ti.com (Simon Willis) noted that patch 100330 for
SunOS 4.1.1 talks about mbuf problems and claims that they
are obsoleted by 4.1.2 plus patches 100516 and 100570.
However, when you look
at the README's for those 2 patches, they don't seem to be related
to this problem.  I may install them anyway.

brock@cs.unca.edu mentioned that his Ultrix machines have the
same problem.

Well, that's it.  I may increase MAXUSERS and/or install patches
100516 and 100570, but I'm not confident.  

In case anyone can figure out some new ideas, here are the results
of a netstat -m performed shortly before my most recent hang:

419/512 mbufs in use:
        81 mbufs allocated to data
        7 mbufs allocated to packet headers
        137 mbufs allocated to socket structures
        173 mbufs allocated to protocol control blocks
        3 mbufs allocated to routing table entries
        13 mbufs allocated to socket names and addresses
        3 mbufs allocated to zombie process information
        2 mbufs allocated to interface addresses
1980/1980 cluster buffers in use
2044 Kbytes allocated to network (99% in use)
3028 requests for memory denied
0 requests for memory delayed
0 calls to protocol drain routines

Once again, if you have any further thoughts, please respond
by e-mail to schorr@ead.dsa.com, since my news feed is down.

Thanks,
Andy
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: tom@dtint.uucp (Thomas R. Kimpton)
Subject: Re: Running out of processes
Organization: Digital Technology, International
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin, comp.unix.admin
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 22:59:38 GMT

In article <JDELL.92Aug27164104@nefertiti.mit.edu> jdell@nefertiti.mit.edu (John Ellithorpe) writes:
>Hi,
>
>	I've got a SPARCstation 2, which is running SunOS 4.1.1.  We like to
>use this machine for batch jobs.  But sometimes we get the "No more processes"
>error and I can't even open up a window.  I was wondering where I could 
>configure our system to allow more processes.  I looked in the kernel, but
>there was only something about MAXUSERS, which looked like more of a floating
>limit.  Should I be changing this?
>
>--John

One thing you might look into is whether you have sufficient
swap space.  If you run out of swap space you will see
this message also.  Running "pstat -s" will tell you
what's in use and what's available.  You can add
swap space on the fly with "swapon", and additional
swap partitions in /etc/fstab.  Do a man on "swapon"
and "fstab".


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From: rouilj@dl5000.bc.edu (John P. Rouillard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Printing from Mac to Sun - NewsPrint 2.0
Date: 28 Aug 92 22:00:41 GMT
Organization: Institute for Space Research, Boston College


Well, if you feel like doing a bit of work, CAP 60 pl 100 works fine
for this.  It looks to the mac just like another laser printer has
been added to the network. Spooling etc all take place through the lp
system, so you can do load balancing of printers etc.

You do need a filter to strip some garbage from the header if you are
printing from a mac running system 7, but it seems to work very well.

-- John
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: rick@sadtler.com (Rick Morris)
Subject: Re: BudTool
Organization: Sadtler Research Laboratories
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:50:35 GMT

malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl) writes:
>
>Let me resume: BudTool makes live much easier but it does need some improvements
>for use in heterogenious networks.
>

Let me jump in here.  Agreed, BudTool needs some improvements.  In function,
it is a real good tool.  But in implementation it has some bugs.  The history
database occaisionally gets corrupted for no apparent reason.  The .budlabels
file gets corrupted when some lines are longer than others.  And to get
support you must call.  They don't respond to emailed support requests, even
though an email support form is included in the main menu.

I have been hoping that some of these inconsistancies will be fixed with the
next release.  As someone said, I can forgive my wife if she lets me down -
but not my backup tool!  I like the interface and the alleged functionality.
Now let's work some of these bugs out!

-Rick.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lou@yfn.ysu.edu (Lou Anschuetz)
Subject: Moving calendar info
Organization: Youngstown State University/Youngstown Free-Net
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 00:56:04 GMT

I've just moved from one sun workstation to another.  I had my
calendar tool nicely set up on the old machine, and wish to move
that calendar data to the new Sun.  I had (falsely I guess) 
assumed that I could move /usr/spool/calendar/callog.lou to 
the new machine, fix up its permissions, do a sed to change
machine ID's in the tag, and bring up calendar tool.  Much to
my surprise it had no idea that the data was out there. :-)

Is there any way to do this?  

--
Lou Anschuetz, a befuddled Sparc2 user with lots of free time 
     now (or at least so it appears :-)

	aka lou@yfn.ysu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: karl@BofA.com (Karl Nicholas)
Subject: Re: 14.4k modem on Sun 4/380
Keywords: high speed modem, sun, communication
Organization: Bank of America, Capital Products, RMTG #5906
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 16:52:38 GMT

In article <1992Aug27.131153.2535@nic.csu.net> hliao@zeus.calstatela.edu (Henry Liao) writes:
>
>	Here is a query to the wisdom of Sun administrators on the net.
>I've connected a 14.4k data/fax modem w/ V.{32,32bis,42,42bis} and MNP2-5
>on a Sun 4/380 running 4.1.2.
>
>Question 1:
>How should I configure /etc/{ttytab,gettytab} for the optimal throughput?
>I tried 'Auto-baud' and various baud rates on the Sun, but my 386PC w/ a
>similar 14.4k modem (supports all compression protocols) always negotiate to
>14.4k.  It doesn't matter if the speed is set to 9600-57600 on either ends.
>

 
   I would set ttytab from std.9600  t0 new.19200.
   
   In your gettytab copy the std.9600 and make a new entry called
   new.19200  change the baud rate to 19200 and ADD  ms=crtscts:
   to the entry.
   
   On your modem lock the interface speed to 19200 and enable hardware
   handshaking (CTS). Anybody dialing in will be very very happy.
   

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From: berliner@rmtc.Central.Sun.COM (Brian Berliner)
Subject: Re: Automatic dump 0 backup, need help!
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 13:24:52 GMT

In <13741@chalmers.se> d0bpl@dtek.chalmers.se (Patrik Larsson) writes:
>I am doing an automatic backup every night. This is an icremental backup
>with dump 9. Every friday I do a complete backup (dump 0). To do this I
>need to set the SUN in single-user mode. Today I do this manually.

>The question is: how do I tell cron to

>   1, enter single-user mode
>   2, make several dump 0's
>   3, reenter multiuser-mode and start up everything

>Any help is appriciated!

Ideally, you *don't* tell cron to drop the machine to single-user to do
your backup.  Else you will lose all your processes and network-provided
services (there goes NFS).

You can purchase the Sun Backup Copilot software product.  It includes a
version of "dump" that cooperates with the file system to block certain
operations during the different phases of "dump" (all configurable, of
course).  This increases your availability dramatically over going to
single-user mode, since only the file system that is being dumped will have
these temporary locks applied -- and you are assured of creating a backup
tape that is restorable.

The cost of the product is really low, too, as you only pay for the
machines that you will use as the backup tape servers.  A right-to-use is
included with the purchase for clients that simply dump to a tape server.
Check it out!

	-Brian
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From: grinnell@eng.umd.edu (Jim Grinnell)
Subject: NEEDED:  format.dat for Seagate ST42400N Elite II Drive
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 18:39:05 GMT
Organization: University of Maryland, College Park, College of Engineering
Originator: grinnell@pepsi.eng.umd.edu



Could someone send me the format.dat entry for the Seagate ST42400N Elite II
2.5 Gig drive.  It is much appreciated.

-------------
Jim Grinnell
e-mail:	grinnell@eng.umd.edu
	jgrinnel@nsf.gov

phone:	(202) 357-7425
From: jpd@discovery.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:09:21 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University

In article 28217@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu, xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams) writes:
> Educational sites:
> 
> Before you even open that nice new SunExpress catalog you might just
> want to throw it out now.  Why you ask?  No more educational discount.
> No you did not read that wrong.  You understood.  If you order through
> SunExpress you do not get the educational discount!  You can still order
> from your sales man and get the discount but it can take forever to get
> something that way.  It was just getting easy to order stuff.  A disk
> here a tape drive there.  So easy.  BUT NO MORE.  Don't they want us to
> order stuff?  It sure does not seem like they do!
> 
> Chad Adams
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> c-adams@bgu.edu      (__/ / /_/_/_(_/_   "Wherever you go, there we are."


I think that info is wrong!!  Our sales rep just told us to mention
to the sales person on Sun-Express of our discout and we get it.
I could be wrong, but I am sure that your misinformed.

--This opinion is mine alone, as I didn't ask anyone else here what
they thought.

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Michigan State University                      ph:  (517) 353-3027 
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From: etsiao@joule.elee.calpoly.edu (Eddie Tsiao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:55:36 GMT
Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

In article <Btw0zF.2xt@acsu.buffalo.edu> pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) writes:
>xcea@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Chad Adams) writes:
>|Educational sites:
>|
>|Before you even open that nice new SunExpress catalog you might just
>|want to throw it out now.  Why you ask?  No more educational discount.
>
>hmmm, i dunno exactly what's happening here but it goes without saying
>(so why am i saying it) that you should check things out carefully.
>
>my understanding is that this may matter to you and it may not.  like
>so many things it seems -- to me -- to depend on your circumstances.
>
I agree!  As far as I know, Sun still gives a bigger discount than any other
company (educational or otherwise).  Also, I know for a fact that educational
grants are still available from Sun.  Before flaming Sun for changing their
discount policy, consider the economic situation.  Compared to what other 
companies are doing, Sun seems to be handling the situation very well.  `

I would like to know where this information came from.  If it's true, talk
to your Sun sales rep.  We are still getting our normal discount which I am
very satisfied with.  This is not to claim I don't want more but rather I
don't expect more.

Standard  Disclaimer:  The views included here are my own and do not
	necessarily reflect those of ARDFA or Cal Poly-SLO.

			- E.T.

|Eddie Tsiao                         | etsiao@autobahn.ARDFA.CalPoly.EDU     |
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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Problems with vacation
Keywords: vacation
Date: 2 Sep 92 20:24:03 GMT
Organization: Northern Illinois University

In article <1720@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> jon@prl.philips.co.uk (Jon Piesing) writes:
>One of the users here used the vacation program before he went on vacation.
>As far as I can see, everything is setup correctly but each email sent to
>him generates an error back to the sender of this form :-
>
>----- Transcript of session follows -----
>vacation: No initial From line
>500 "|/usr/ucb/vacation rankin"... Bad usage

It sounds as if you have the "n" flag in the "F=" operand of your prog
mailer definition in sendmail.cf.
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From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik)
Subject: Re: NIS, slave servers and DNS access
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 16:38:33 GMT

QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew) writes:

>I have a machine that requires DNS access which normally means running
>NIS (yes I know it can be done without NIS but that's not possible in my
>case). The machine will be a mail hub.

>I would like to know if I can do 2 things:
>1) prevent NIS clients from binding to my slave 'server' (I need to be a
>   slave server to make it more robust since if I am just a client and the
>   server on my subnet goes down (happened before), my machine will go
>   AWOL :-( -- no other servers on my subnet currently) and impacting
>   performance.

You can't prevent clients from binding to a server. You can prevent them
from getting data from your server with the NIS security patch, but that
would render the clients useless. We don't see much load from NIS.
You can try to give that machine a different NIS domain, but with the
same maps as the global NIS domain. That will prevent the clients
from binding. Getting the maps from the server will be a bit more
difficult in such a case, I think. You can have the NIS master
server both domains and `yppush -d <yourdomain>', I would think.
Never tried that, though.

>2) Can I take the password maps and somehow disable the passwords so that I
>   have a list of usernames but they cannot logon to the mail hub.

Disable passwords:

+:*:0:0:::

But better is a different login shell (.rhosts and all that):

+::0:0:::/etc/nologin

Both lines can be used as last line of /etc/passwd (see passwd(5) for
a more detailed discussion).

Casper
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From: mos@cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Michael O'Sullivan)
Subject: Re: To upgrade (4.1.3) or not to upgrade that is ...
Organization: Customised Software Solutions Centres, AOTC
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:58:54 GMT

larry@abtlabs.uucp (Larry Pajakowski) writes:

>We have a 690MP running 4.1.2.  The rather skimpy overview mentions
>performance improvements and Exabyte 8500 improvements among other things.

>Given the thread of 8500 sync. SCSI stories think this might be a good idea?

>Anybody have any more info on what 4.1.3 does?

I was under the impression that 4.1.3 was really only released for the 
the sparc 10 Uniprocessor models. Since a version of Solaris2.0 will not
run on these till early 93 (?). 

>Larry Pajakowski
>larry@turing.abbott.com
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From: peteg@seismo.CSS.GOV (Pete Geenhuizen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Mounting 4.1.2 filesystem on 4.1.1 system
Date: 1 Sep 92 08:17:51 GMT
Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA

In article <2AA2A4F0.14824@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
>
>We have a situation here that necessitates mounting a 4.1.2 filesystem
>under SunOS 4.1.1.  Does anyone know of any problems in doing that?
>We couldn't find anything in the release notes, but I figured it
>wouldn't hurt to ask.
>
No problem, I'm automounting 4.1.2 filesystems to several machines running
4.1.1, and vice a versa.
Pete


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From: k2@bl.physik.tu-muenchen.de (Klaus Steinberger)
Subject: Re: NIS, slave servers and DNS access
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 06:44:09 GMT

QQ11@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK (Alan Thew) writes:

>I have a machine that requires DNS access which normally means running
>NIS (yes I know it can be done without NIS but that's not possible in my
>case). The machine will be a mail hub.

>I would like to know if I can do 2 things:
>1) prevent NIS clients from binding to my slave 'server' (I need to be a
>   slave server to make it more robust since if I am just a client and the
>   server on my subnet goes down (happened before), my machine will go
>   AWOL :-( -- no other servers on my subnet currently) and impacting
>   performance.
There is no mechanism to prevent the clients from this.

>2) Can I take the password maps and somehow disable the passwords so that I
>   have a list of usernames but they cannot logon to the mail hub.
Yes, just make a entry like this into your /etc/passwd:
+::::::/etc/noshell

(/etc/noshell could be a program which tells the user why he isn't
authorized to login, just simple to write such a beast)

I would consider to run real DNS on your machine, instead through
NIS. If you resolve hostnames through NIS, sendmail will have no chance
to see if a failure is temporarily, or permanent. So you would get
delivery failures even in the case of temporarily unreachable nameservers,
or even when your query times out due to long delay between here and there!
Also no chance for MX queries, so you are completly lost!

Sincerely,
Klaus Steinberger
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From: root@wsm.com (System Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Diff between SunOS 4.1.1B and 4.1.1_U1, 3/260 and SCSI-3 ctrlr
Date: 26 Aug 92 19:03:01 GMT
Organization: Western Scientific

Hello All,

	I have a friend that has a Sun 3/260 running SunOS 4.1.1_U1 with
a Sun SCSI-3 controller (SCSI-3 as in model number not SCSI-3 spec).
He cannot get a Seagate Wren 7, 1.2GB SCSI disk (aka Sun-1.0G) or
a Seagate Wren 9 1.8GB SCSI disk to run connected to the SCSI-3 controller.
Under his OS the SCSI-3 controller shows up as a si type controller/driver.
He can format/partition/label the drive okay, but under newfs he gets
sporatic errors. Sun told him that he cant run a disk larger that 1GB on
that system. I know thats not correct because I know I have heard of 
other folks with this type setup run these drives okay, at least the Wren 7.
Heck I have an old 3/50 running SunOS 4.1.1b and I can run Wren 7, Wren 9 and
Hitachi DK516C-16 1.6GB SCSI disk drives without incident. My on-board
controller is under the si driver as well.

Question 1: Whats the difference between 4.1.1b and 4.1.1_U1 ?

Question 2: Even though Sun is abandoning future support for the Sun 3
	    class of machine does anyone out there have a drive larger
            than 1GB running on a setup similar to the one above?

Question 3: In futher troubleshooting the situation my friend found that
	    the TERMPWR fuse on the SCSI-3 board was blown and that some
	    of the SCSI lines on the board were opens instead of grounds.
	    When he told Sun "I know its my controller, its bad" They said
	    "No, its a over 1GB drive problem." Are the above signal line   
	    findings normal for the Sun SCSI-3 controller?
	    (i.e. Opens instead of grounds like they're supposed to be per
	     ANSI SCSI-1/SCSI-2 specifacations.)

Thanks in advance for any help in this matter. Please reply via Email if
possible...

Jeff Johnson
jeff@wsm.com
From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Help!  Untarring a SGI tape on a Sparc
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:42:21 GMT
Organization: BTR Public Access UNIX, Mountain View CA

In article <1992Aug27.215111.1107@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
|[...]
|   dd if=/dev/nrst0 conv=swab | tar xvf -
|         ^^^^^^^^^^
|        your tape name here
|
|"swab" means SWAp Bytes. "dd" is a very useful program for a lot of things.
|
|I thought that SGI fixed this a couple of years ago. Are you running an old
|release of IRIX? Or did they not do what they said they were going to?

The latest released IRIX, 4.0.5, still defaults the /dev/tape for QIC drives
to be a byte-swapping device.

It's easy to ``ln'' the "ns" (non-swap-bytes) to be, say, /dev/qic and
/dev/nrqic [non-rewind-on-close] which is what I do.

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]
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