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From: msweetes@axion.bt.co.uk (Michael Sweet-Escott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SunOs/Unix performance tuning , info wanted
Date: 12 Aug 92 15:16:53 GMT
Reply-To: msweetes@axion.bt.co.uk (Michael Sweet-Escott)
Organization: British Telecom Research Labs


	I am looking for any books or articles relating to
	Systems performance tuning and kernel configuration
	within Unix System V.4, and SunOs 4.1 systems 
	environment.

	Currently, I've only found the book :

	Sys. Performance Tuning - by Mike Loukides
		published by: O'Reilly & Associates,Inc (1991).


	Thanks, in advance.

	*I will post a summary if I recieve a lot of replies*
From: scott@esosun.UUCP (Scott Grier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: SVR4 System Admin references
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:54:24 GMT
Reply-To: scott@esosun.css.gov.UUCP ()
Distribution: usa
Organization: Science Applications International Corp., San Diego

Looking for the best SVR4 System Administration reference(s) currently
available. Any suggestions?

Scott

scott@esosun.css.gov
scott@gso.saic.com
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: setting up anonymous ftp
Date: 14 Aug 92 20:57:42 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I need to know exactly what to do to get "ls" to work
>               ^^^^^^^
>Now all I get is:
>
>crt0: no /usr/lib/ls.so

(Presumably you mean "/usr/lib/ld.so".)

What you need to do to get "ls" to work is to carefully read FTPD(8C),
paying special attention to the section that reads:

     In the last case, ftpd takes special  measures  to  restrict
     the  client's  access  privileges.   The  server  performs a
     chroot(2) command to the home directory of the  "ftp"  user.
     In  order that system security is not breached, it is recom-
     mended that the "ftp" subtree be constructed with care;  the
     following rules are recommended.

     ~ftp    Make the home directory owned by "ftp"  and  unwrit-
             able by anyone.

     ~ftp/bin
             Make this directory  owned  by  the  super-user  and
             unwritable  by  anyone.   The program ls(1V) must be
             present to support the list commands.  This  program
             should  have  mode  111.   Since the default /bin/ls
             command is linked with a shared library, so you need
             to set up the files for dynamic linking as well.

     ~ftp/usr/lib/ld.so
             the runtime loader must be present and executable.

     ~ftp/dev/zero
             used by the runtime loader,  create  this  with  the
             command "mknod zero c 3 12".

     ~ftp/usr/lib/libc.so.*
             should be a copy of the latest version of the shared
             C library.

     ~ftp/etc
             Make this directory  owned  by  the  super-user  and
             unwritable  by  anyone.   The  files  passwd(5)  and
             group(5) must be present for the ls command to  work
             properly.  These files should be mode 444.

     ~ftp/pub
             Make this directory mode 777  and  owned  by  "ftp".
             Users should then place files which are to be acces-
             sible via the anonymous account in this directory.

and do *everything* it tells you to do.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: will@lo-fan ()
Subject: Printcap entry for Laserjet III?
Originator: will@anju
Reply-To: will@lo-fan ()
Organization: Caltech Astronomy Dept., Pasadena
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 00:00:50 GMT

We have a Laserjet III that we wish to attach to a Sparc 2
(SunOS 4.1.2).  Can anybody send me a printcap for this?

Thanks,
-Will
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/* Will Deich
 * Caltech  105-24, Pasadena, CA 91125
 * Internet: will@surya.caltech.edu
 */
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: scm@aiware.in-berlin.de (Harald Schmidt)
Subject: Trouble adding user on i386
Summary: sun
Keywords: nis
Organization: AIware
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 22:43:38 GMT

hallihallo,

since my last backup, I had trouble adding any user into our i386 machine.
The problem is:  If I want to allow an extern user to use
this machine via TCP/IP, we use the snap-admin tool to enter the user.
Then it tries to create the users home directory and display a message
on the screen that snap is unable to create the home dir. I take a
look, but snap has created it. The next message, I think, and the greatest
problem is NIS checks all hosts around, and if it came to itself, it dies.

My question is: can I add user without the snap-tool (how), and will this
		solve my problem.

Many, many thanks in advance,

	Harald
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: pln@egret1.stanford.edu (Patrick L. Nolan)
Subject: openwin refuses connection
Organization: DSO, Stanford University
Date: 12 Aug 92 18:37:48 GMT

I just ran into a strange problem.  A user was trying to run
Xview clients (cmdtool, mailtool) on a remote Sun and display
them on a local OpenWin server.  The connection would be
refused each time.  We moved to another workstation and switched
from OW 2.0 to 3.0 with no improvement.  Trying similar operations
with a different remote host worked OK.  I finally traced the
difference to the way xhost treated the remote host.
When I issued the command 'xhost pulsar.hsc.edu', it would
reply in the usual way 'pulsar.hsc.edu being added to access
control list'.  But when I ran xhost to see the list,
the host would appear in the form of a numerical IP address,
rather than by name.  This doesn't happen for any other
host I've tried.  Nslookup finds this host with no apparent
problem.

The workaround is to add this host to /etc/hosts on the NIS
server and rebuild the maps.  I would like to know what's going
on, though.

The setup: SunOS 4.1.1, Sparkstation IPC and 1+, Openwin 2 and
3 on this end, Openwin 2 on the other end, name resolution by
NIS (with DNS enabled in the Makefile).
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*   Patrick L. Nolan            (415)723-0133                 *
*   W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory (HEPL)       * 
*   Stanford University                                       *
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Subject: Re: auto set display variable on X terms
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.admin
Reply-To: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc.
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 11:12:38 GMT


Anyone know if there is some problem with using this?

DISPLAY=`who am i | awk ' NF == 6 { print $6 ; next } { print ":0.0" } '`

if you are using sh or ksh look alikes anyways?  I don`t know csh to
know who to do something similar.
-- 
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Same Mbox: BITNET: lvirden@cas  INET: lvirden@cas.org
Personal: 674 Falls Place,   Reynoldsburg, OH 43068-1614
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: roihar@cc4.crl.aecl.ca
Subject: Exabyte or other 8mm tape storage in quantity
Organization: AECL RESEARCH
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:53:26 GMT

Does anyone have information on a storage system for hundreds of
exabyte tapes. We are now using these as our standard storage media
for data from nuclear experimentation and they are 'piling' up
quite rapidly. All I've seen in the catalogues are stackable units
which hold at most some 20-30 tapes. Anything better out there??
Anyone else come up with a usable alternative to commercially
available storage systems???
From: rsnyder@atl.ge.com (Bob Snyder)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: 690MP "pausing"
Date: 18 Aug 92 22:23:25 GMT
Organization: GE Aerospace, Advanced Technology Labs

Is anyone else having problems with a 690MP running 4.1.2 seeming to just
"pause"?  What will happen is the machine will seem to simply freeze up for
about 3 or 4 seconds,  During these these few seconds, the machine appears
to respond to nothing, not even echoing keystrokes back when typing on the
command line of in an editor like vi.

I've applied a number of patches to the system (I've put a list at the end of
this) trying to get this to stop.

There doesn't seem to be any adverse effects to the clients, but there is only
a couple of clients attached, and we're a bit hesitant to add any more until
we are able to resolve this.

Thanks,
Bob

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100274-02.tar.Z  100458-02.tar.Z  100516-01.tar.Z  100569-01.tar.Z
100296-02.tar.Z  100469-01.tar.Z  100521-01.tar.Z  100570-01.tar.Z
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100305-07.tar.Z  100475-01.tar.Z  100531-02.tar.Z  100581-02.tar.Z
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rsnyder@atl.ge.com, (609) 866-6672, FAX: (609) 866-6397, DialComm 8*777-6672
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: davek@kestrel.ims.com (Dave Koon)
Subject: Migration from Novell to PC-NFS
Reply-To: davek@kestrel.ims.com
Organization: Integrated Measurement Systems
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 16:45:03 GMT

Fellow netters,

	We are planning the migration of several users from Novell to
PC-NFS.  Since we are trying to do this in a cost effective manner I am
trying to figure out how much server is enough server.

	At most, I expect to have about 30-40 users on this machine who
will require ~1-2Gbytes of mirrored storage.  The people are currently 
getting by on a 386 Novell server.  Should an IPC/X be adequate for the
task?  Would I need something bigger?  The current model for these folks 
is to use the file server as the only repository for files.  They do NOT 
copy files to the hard disk on the PC to work on locally. The work is done 
over the net. There will be no appreciable change in overall network traffic
since the TCP traffic shares the same wire as the IPX traffic.


	As usual if there is sufficient interest, I will summarize for the 
net.

Thanks,

Dave Koon
davek@ims.com
From: warrend@sptekwv3.wv.tek.com (Warren Dodge;685-2283;60-850;;sptekwv3)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: system errors on 386I and Sparc 2
Keywords: dnlc_purge1 inode kbdputcode
Date: 19 Aug 92 14:18:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: shaman.1609
Reply-To: warren.dodge@tek.com
Organization: Tektronix, Inc.,  Beaverton, OR


-- 
Our sun386I has been chugging along for years now and all of a sudden
we started getting the following errors from it.  

Also the second machine, a sparc 2, started getting similar errors.
This machine hasn't been used for 2 weeks by anyone. 

Does anyone know what is happening to cause these?

There were many more of the same errors but I trimmed it down. Also a
reboot fixed it at least for now.

Thanks in advance.


Aug 18 12:20:30 sntekwv6 dnlc_purge1: no entries to purge

Aug 18 12:20:31 sntekwv6 syslogd: /etc/utmp: File table overflow
Aug 18 12:20:30 sntekwv6 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:30 sntekwv6 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:30 sntekwv6 dnlc_purge1: no entries to purge

Aug 18 12:20:31 sntekwv6 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:31 sntekwv6 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:30 sptekwv12 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:31 sptekwv12 dnlc_purge1: no entries to purge

Aug 18 12:20:31 sptekwv12 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:31 sptekwv12 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:31 sptekwv12 dnlc_purge1: no entries to purge

Aug 18 12:20:31 sptekwv12 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:20:31 sptekwv12 System limit reached for inode table. Cancel some jobs and try again.
Aug 18 12:26:15 sntekwv6 kbdputcode: can't allocate block for keycode

Aug 18 12:26:15 sntekwv6 kbdputcode: can't allocate block for keycode





                                       Warren L. Dodge

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          | Tektronix, Inc., Network Displays Division (NWD)   |
          | PO Box 1000, MS 60-850, Wilsonville, OR 97070      |
          |     phone - (503) 685-2283                         |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cyclone@netcom.com (Bill Sheppard)
Subject: Please help me upgrade 3/50 V4.0.1 -> V4.1.1
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 92 01:15:54 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Summary: I need some handholding...
Keywords: novice, upgrade, Sun 3

I am now administering a Sun 3/50 which has experienced some, ah, ecletic
administration in the past.  While it has been running remarkably well, I'm
now ready to upgrade it from V4.0.1 to V4.1.1 (is there any reason not to do
this?).  I don't have documentation that came with V4.1.1, and I'm a bit
squeamish about doing the upgrade.  My main concerns are regarding merging the
old files back into the new filesystem.  For instance, if I have local files
scattered in some of the distribution directories, how can I automatically
restore them from the tape without overwriting the newly installed files?  I
didn't see an option with either 'restore' or 'tar' to only extract new or
newer files...

What else do I need to watch for?  I've got the 1986(!) Sun documentation
which does describe the upgrade procedure, as far as suggested site-specific
files to archive separately, but I'm quite sure there are others I need to
worry about.  Any general hints, shell scripts, or other advice you can
provide to keep me from utterly frying this system would be most appreciated,
either via email or posted here.

Thanks very much,

Bill Sheppard
From: doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu (Douglas Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Error booting from tape during OS Installation
Date: 23 Aug 92 01:58:26 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Center for Computer Music Research and Composition, UCSB

I am attempting to install Sun OS 4.1.1 on our Sun 3/160 which is currently
running 3.5.  I will eventually go all the way to 4.1.2, but this is an
intermediate step.

The manual indicates that I should boot MUNIX from the distribution tape
before repartitioning the disk, so I tried the two commands they list, with
the following results:

>b st(0,0,0)
[long wait, and tape is being read]
Exception 10 at 00004004
>

-------

>b st(0,0,4) -asw
[long wait, and tape is being read]
stclose: mode select command fail
Exception 10 at 00004006
>


I cannot find any information about possible error conditions despite the
voluminous nature of the documentation.  Can anyone tell me what I am doing
wrong?

Thanks in advance.

-- 
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Center for Computer Music Research and Composition
University of California, Santa Barbara
Internet: (NeXTMail ok)   <doug@foxtrot.ccmrc.ucsb.edu>
From: jpd@discovery.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: setting up anonymous ftp
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:27:48 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University

I need to know exactly what to do to get "ls" to work
               ^^^^^^^

Now all I get is:

crt0: no /usr/lib/ls.so
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Michigan State University                      ph:  (517) 353-3027 
Specialized Computing Support Services              10am - 5pm EST
From: hardinp@prism.cs.orst.edu (Paul Hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Modem woes (dialin on sparc 1+ and IPC)
Summary: Can't get getty to pick up line on IPC and can't get coherent response
Keywords: modem
Date: 21 Aug 92 16:35:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: CS.1992Aug21.163542.17727
Organization: Oregon State University, Computer Science Dept

Hi,
    I can not seem to get a dialin connect on any of our sparc stations. We
have been trying on a new IPC and an old sparc 1+ using Supra V.32 modems.
On the IPC the getty refuses to answer the line so that even though a connec-
tion is made one may only communicate by tipping to the IPC port. This results
in a 'talk' style connect where keyboard input goes to the window on the far 
side of each modem.
    The Sparc 1+ getty works fine in that it takes over the port and locks it
but then sends an incoherent string of x's and ~'s to the fare machine rather
than the desired loggin.
    Any enlightenment on this would be greatly appreciated.

	Thanks in advance!!

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From: ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: XGL 2.0 RTE Libraries
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:42:40 GMT
Reply-To: ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Harris GISD

--I just got the XGL 2.0 RTE Libraries CD.  I'm not sure what it does for me!
--(talk about Dumb questions!).  I realize they are libraries and assume they
--will (based on the 1-sentence explanation that comes with the CD) speed up
--certain graphics operations on the Sparc system.
--
--Do ordinary OW3.0 applications use these libraries if present?
--
--Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
--
--Bill

The XGL libraries are for graphics acceleration. If you have some kind
of accelerator,
GX, GS, GT then you will get some benfit from the XGL RTE.
(my understanding of the product)

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From: ptrubey@netcom.com (Phil Trubey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Installing part of SunOS?
Date: 18 Aug 92 16:41:12 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

Is it possible to install part of the Sun OS release onto a system
without having to re-install the whole operating system from scratch?
Specifically, I find that I now need to install the Shlib Custom option
and I do not want to wipe the system clean.

Thanks, as always, for any info.

-- 

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Systemhouse Inc.              | Voice:    613-834-6919
                              | Fax:      613-236-2043
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: eric@homebase.vistachrome.com (Eric Brunson)
Subject: Re: Does CD-ROM require a special driver?
Organization: Vista-Chrome Incorporated
Distribution: ba
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 14:00:11 GMT

gordon@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Gordon Vickers) writes:

[ some stuff deleted ]

>        Hopefully, I have been missinformed, but it currently appears
>   as though I can not install the new version of the OS without
>   first installing a CD-ROM driver, which I believe requires a
>   kernal re-build.

There is a bootable kernal on the CD that you boot from to install.

In case it helps, installation goes like this.

1.  You boot from the micro-kernal on the ROM and are able to format
	and partition your disk.

2.  A mini-kernal is installed on the b ( what will eventually become
	the swap partition ) partition of your drive and you reboot from
	that.

3.  You install the real kernal and the rest of the operating system
	while running from the mini-kernal.  ( One caveat is that, though
	you can re-partition your drive at this point, you cannot change 
	the size of your a ( root ) partition since the partition you are
	running from physically follows it and you write over your running
	kernal.  I tried this, it doesn't work. )

4.  You reboot from your permanent kernal and you are up and running.

You can rebuild that kernal to remove the CD-ROM drivers, but the default
kernal has them built in.

[ some stuff that I don't know about deleted ]

If you want to know about 3rd party ROM drives you might want to call
Workstations Plus, in California, 800-735-5777.  Ask for Carrie, she 
loves me.  They OEM a lot of stuff like that.

Hope it helps...

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: karl@thuja.gsfc.nasa.gov (Karl A. Anderson)
Subject: How long can access list be in exports(5)?
Organization: NASA/GSFC Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 13:55:43 GMT

On the subject of exporting file systems for NFS in a non-NIS environment, just
what is the limit on the length of an "-access=" list in /etc/exports?  I can't 
find any reference to it in my AnswerBook or man pages.  TIA.
-- 
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NASA/GSFC code 920.2 (HSTX)	| voice: (301) 286-3815
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ralf@solbourne.com (Ralph W. Brown)
Subject: Re: Openwindows on Solbourne
Organization: Solbourne Computer, Inc.
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 14:57:24 GMT

Steve,

> Anyone had any luck running OpenWindows Version 3 on a Solbourne Series 5?

Yes, you will need to run the newly released OS/MP 4.1A.3 and Solbourne's
OpenWindows 3.0 release.  There were a number of bug fixes required to make
OW 3.0 run in an MP environment.  Both of these should be available through
your local Solbourne Sales Rep.

> I get a SIG error when I try to run the xnews server.

Yep!  This has to do with a change in the way the xnews server does shared
memory locking that occurred between OW 2.0 and OW 3.0.

> I have been able to
> get the olwm running on top of the MIT server with:
> 	openwin -dev /dev/cgtwo0 -noauth -server /usr/bin/X11/X

Yes, this should work just fine, however, you give up the xnews server font
and postscript functionality.  You will probably find the performance slightly
better too.

> I just get some funny marks on the display as the block cursor moves
> through a shelltool panel (this happens only occasionally, but often enough
> to be bothersome).

This has been fixed in OW 3.0.

Ralph W. Brown                        Solbourne Computer, Inc.
Software Engineering Manager          1900 Pike Road
ralf@solbourne.com                    Longmont, CO 80501
...{boulder,sun}!stan!ralf            (303) 678-4304

-- 
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Software Engineering Manager          1900 Pike Road
ralf@solbourne.com                    Longmont, CO 80501
...{boulder,sun}!stan!ralf            (303) 678-4304
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