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From: jumper@spf.trw.com (Greg Jumper)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: What version of OpenWindows comes with SunOS 4.1.3?
Date: 2 Sep 92 15:50:15 GMT
Organization: TRW Sensor Data Processing Center, Redondo Beach, CA


We received our first copy of SunOS 4.1.3 yesterday; as with 4.1.2, the media
has preceded the release notes.  Since several others have already posted
about having installed 4.1.3, you might be able to answer these questions:

     1)  Does 4.1.3 have OpenWindows 3.n.m bundled, or does it still have
         Ow2.0 as a transition, like 4.1.2 did?  If OW3.n.m, is it 3.0, or
         (hopefully) 3.0.1 or higher, such as is bundled with Solaris 2.0.

         In particular, I'm wondering if I need to keep and reinstall the
         various patches I've gotten, especially the ones which fix the
         "undefined symbol" problems when building X11 applications.

     2)  What is the state of SunOS 4.1.3 with respect to security-related
         patches:  are the LD_LIBRARY_PATH, sendmail, and secure NIS patches
         included?
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                                       Thanks,

                                       Greg Jumper
                                       TRW Signal Processing Facility
                                       jumper@spf.trw.com
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From: vberge@itk.unit.no (Viktor Berge)
Subject: vmstat, "de" field
Organization: Norwegian Institute of Technology / SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Date: 2 Sep 92 13:12:18


We have some problems with the performance at our system, and we 
monitor different states in our machines and networks.

In order to find any memory shortage problems we run vmstat -S 10
(SunOs 4.1). The "fre" field indicate no memory problem. But the "de"
field, "anticipated short term memory shortfall" is nonzero.  In the
nutshell book, System Performance Tuning, this indicates memory shortage.
As You can see, there is no "po" or "so" activity and "fre" is gt.24000 !!.

The machine (typical example), sparc 2 with 64M ram, is a x-terminal
server and in addition nfs server for some filesystems.

I am rather confused, can somebody help me ?
- is the nonzero "de" field an indication of something wrong ? .. or
- can i forget the whole "de" field information and concentrate on
  "so" and "po" ?


 procs     memory              page               disk       faults     cpu
 r b w   avm   fre  si so  pi  po  fr  de  sr s0 s1 s2 s3  in  sy  cs us sy id
 0 0 0     0 24228  25  0   0   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0  34  85  42  0  1 99
 0 0 0     0 24228  35  0   0   0   0 128   0  0  0  0  0  45 110  43  0  1 99
 0 0 0     0 24228  70  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  35  86  40  0  1 99
 0 0 0     0 24228  35  0   0   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0  36  87  41  0  1 99
 0 0 0     0 24216  25  0   0   0   0 112   0  0  0  0  0  41 104  43  0  1 98
 0 0 0     0 24244  65  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  37 110  43  0  1 99
 0 0 0     0 24244  15  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  39 142  43  1  1 98
 0 0 0     0 24244  15  0   0   0   0 112   0  0  0  0  0  45 199  46  1  2 97
 0 0 0     0 24244  65  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  34  91  40  1  1 98
 0 0 0     0 24244  30  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  43 101  41  1  1 98
 1 0 0     0 24144  60  0   0   0   0  16   0  0  0  0  0  48 131  51  2  3 95
 0 0 0     0 24116  25  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  1  37  96  40  0  1 99
 0 0 0     0 24116  20  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  33  87  40  0  0 99
 0 0 0     0 24116  45  0   0   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  0  40  98  46  0  1 99
 

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Regards, Viktor Berge

Division of Engineering Cybernetics	: Phone +47 7 594497
The Norwegian Institute of Technology	: Fax   +47 7 594399
N-7034 Trondheim                        : Email vberge@itk.unit.no
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew)
Subject: Re: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 02:24:27 GMT

Nah, just throw the catalog away; never mind the postcard :-)


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From: mahesh@evb.com (B.G. Mahesh)
Subject: Sys Admin : how good/informative magazine is this ?
Reply-To: mahesh@evb.com
Organization: SETT Inc.
Affiliate-Of: EVB Software Engineering, Inc.
Distribution: dc
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 21:36:15 GMT

I have to decide if I need to subscribe to "Sys Admin"
($39/year for 6 issues). if you have any comments please
respond by email.

thanks

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B.G. Mahesh
mahesh@evb.com
From: rhoward@matd.gatech.edu (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: automounter vs auto.master
Date: 2 Sep 92 17:01:16 GMT
Organization: Georgia Tech Research Institute

fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:

>How does one get the automounter to notice that you have changed
>auto.master?

>As best I can tell, you have to actually kill and restart the
>automounter (yuck).  Is this really true?  If so, it orphans any
>existing auto-mounted file systems, so they are not unmounted until
>the next reboot.  So you may as well reboot the machine anyway.
>Please tell me it ain't so.

No....

It's not that bad.  From the automount man page:

     Entries in both direct and indirect maps can be modified  at
     any  time.   The new information will be used when automount
     next uses the map entry to do a mount.  automount  does  not
     cache map entries.

See, automount does not cache map entries....

Robert
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From: yvent@ntua.gr (Yiannis Ventikos)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Screen shots to TIFF, GIF, PCX?
Date: 29 Aug 92 18:16:02 GMT
Organization: National Technical University of Athens

I suggest ImageMagick from ftp.uu.net. 


 
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.windows.news
From: rens@lorax.shearson.com (Rens Troost)
Subject: Font Conversion -- HELP!!
Organization: Lehman Brothers
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:00:26 GMT

Hi-

I am trying to discover how to convert a PostScript type-3 font
supplied with OpenWindows ("Dijkstra", by name) into a normal format
(.bdf or whatnot). Some of my users use xnews, and others Xsun - I
need to give them a consistent look.

Help?

-Rens

rens@shearson.com
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From: weaver@nexus.psu.edu (George M. Weaver)
Subject: Re: sendmail, in.comsat, and biff
Reply-To: weaver@nexus.psu.edu
Organization: Penn State Astronomy and Astrophysics
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:05:00 GMT

Many of the admins on campus have reported similar sendmail behavior
after upgrading to 4.1.2 - it seems to "forget" who the local users
are after running for a while.  A fix that seems to work is to move
the sendmail daemon startup command ("/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q1h")
to the end of rc.local.  I haven't heard a plausible explanation as
to why this works, although some believe it to be a race condition
with ypbind, which is also starting up about this time.

   -George Weaver
    Computing Facilities Manager
    Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics
    The Pennsylvania State University
From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Sun 690MP performance problems
Date: 1 Sep 92 07:00:53 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo

jayl@bit.UUCP (Jay Lessert) writes:
|In article <2A9FA7FE.2305@orion.oac.uci.edu> iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias) writes:
|>Is anyone else having problems like these with their 690MP?  Sun has made
|>some attempts to look into the problem, but all we've heard is that
|>"the system is performing as we said it would".
|
|I see no reason to doubt your Sun contacts when they say "the system is
|performing as we said it would".
|
|In the real world, I guess it *is* pretty unrealistic to expect your Sun
|salesman to advise you to (1) buy a Solbourne or (2) hang to your
|Sequent for another year or two, but I suspect you'd be *much* happier
|if you had done one or the other of those...

ahem, i suppose this is where i chime in.  (never having used a big time
sequent i can't comment on one.)

we have a 4 cpu 690 w/ 128MB (not enough but...) and a 4 cpu solbourne
(4/400 class cpu's) w/ 256MB.

these machines do general purpose timesharing.  who typically reports*
40-60 users at this point in the semester peaking at 80-100 (per
machine).  according to things like mon both machines spend about 80%
of the time in system after we pass 50-70 users.

sun says ``fixed in sunos5.1''  solbourne says ``hmmmm, we thought we fixed
that''.

i just wouldn't want anyone to order up a solbourne thinking it would
necessarily solve this problem.  i do not think this is not a solved
problem on sparc hardware with an os derived from sunos4.  the
solbourne is better but not better enough.

i use the 690 on a regular basis and sometimes it's not as brisk as i
might like but it's not normally what i would consider unacceptably
slow.

* i say ``who reports'' because we have lots of stuff happening on lots
  of pty's that never makes it into utmp.  i presume that as long as i
  use what who says consistently it's meaningful to me.  it might be
  meaningless to you.

-- 
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opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.
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From: kahn@PHYSICS.UNC.EDU (Dan Kahn)
Subject: Exabyte robots and stackers
Organization: Physics Dept. UNC-CH
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 18:27:10 GMT


We've been looking at buying a tape robot to help with our backup
duties.  All of the dealers we've contacted seem to sell a "value added"
piece of equipment made by Exabyte.

There seem to be two types of equipment, a Tape Robot, and something
called a Stacker.  The tape robot allows random access to tapes while
the stacker must go through them sequentailly.

I'm interested in two things:  I'd like to know what the functional
differences between the two type of equipment are.  (My guess is that
with the stacker you issue commands like "advance 5 tapes", and the
computer program must keep track of which tape is in what position in
the stack, while in the real robot, one only needs to say "give me the
fifth tape", and the robot will retreive the same tape every time this
command is made.)

For this to work as a backup system, the Robot/Stacker must be able to
work with backup software.  The backup software I've looked at seems
to work on a kind of "operator paradigm" where it expects an operator to
be present to insert a particular tape.  While this could be made to
work with a tape robot with a little work, it might be very difficult to
get it to work with a stacker.  This is my main concern.

If people who are using one of these pieces of equipment with backup
software would send me a short description of their experiences I'll
post a summary to the net.

Thanks,
--dan
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: popelka@odysseus.uchicago.edu (Glenn Popelka)
Subject: Re: Tape Cleaning Services
Organization: University of Chicago  LASR
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 03:44:38 GMT

was@gdwb.oz.au (Warren Stokes) writes:

> "Tape manufacturers recommend tapes be cleaned regularly as part of a 
> preventative maintenance programme. Regular cleaning not only removes 
> erros-causing oxide build-up and debris while restoring correct tape
> tension, it also means that degraded tapes can be postively identified
> and removed before they spread contamination throughout the system.
> 
> 	* CLEAN AND RETENSION FREQUENTLY-USED TAPES EVERY SIX MONTHS
> 	* CLEAN AND RETENSION ALL TAPES ONCE A YEAR"
> 
> My personal opinion is that it is a service that I could do without.
> 
> Any opinions?

 Depends on how heavily you rely on 9 track tapes. Our laboratory archives
thousands of tapes containing data obtained from nearly 30 years of space
exploration. We bought our own cleaning machines to clean and re-tension
tapes regularly. Unfortunately, our machine broke down recently and we were
forced to replace it (~ $4500), when it looks like we will be moving to other
media within the next few years.

 The cleaning definately makes a difference. I am still able to read tapes
that were generated in the mid to late 70's easily, except for such minor
details as XDS or /6 floating point format.

 Our only problem is that we still have some of the more basic level data
sets on 7 track tape. (The more refined products have been moved to 9tk.)
If anyone knows where I can get a used 7tk drive that I could hook up to
an old PDP or VAX, I'd be grateful to hear the details, sort of...

glenn 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: pbg@cs.brown.edu (Peter Galvin)
Subject: Re: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Organization: Department of Computer Science, Brown University
	<Btw0zF.2xt@acsu.buffalo.edu>
	<1992Sep02.165536.131484@zeus.calpoly.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 13:40:00 GMT

SunExpress is a separate business unit of Sun.  One of the "planets".
They have they right to set whatever pricing they want, just as SunPro
has the right to set whatever prices they want for their compilers.
That doesn't mean we have to buy from them, of course.

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From: iglesias@draco.acs.uci.edu (Mike Iglesias)
Subject: Re: Mounting 4.1.2 filesystem on 4.1.1 system
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: University of California, Irvine
Date: 1 Sep 92 17:21:21 GMT

In article <2AA2A4F0.14824@orion.oac.uci.edu> I wrote:
>
>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.

I guess I wasn't clear enough on what we wanted to do.  We need to
physically mount the disk with a 4.1.2 filesystem on a system running
4.1.1.  I know NFS mounts will work.

Sorry about the confusion.


Mike
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
From: malte@techfak.uni-bielefeld.de (Malte Uhl)
Subject: Re: edu - throw out new SunExpress catalog
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 92 09:49:59 GMT
Organization: Universitaet Bielefeld, Technische Fakultaet.

In article <1992Sep1.173446.17994@tamsun.tamu.edu>, greg@carnivore.tamu.edu (Greg Economides) writes:
|> 
|> The reason, as explained to me, for the longer delivery time (for discounted
|> orders) is that the order must go through one of the other subsidiaries of
|> Sun before it can be sent out (I think that this should not be the case).
|> 
I suggest they should use networked computers.

Malte
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From: ralphw@comm.mot.com (Ralph Warchol STC Sys-Admin)
Subject: Re: automounter vs auto.master
Reply-To: ralphw@comm.mot.com
Organization: Motorola LMPS Software Technology Center
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 14:00:41 GMT

In article 1811ojINNe3c@cs.utexas.edu, fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
>How does one get the automounter to notice that you have changed
>auto.master?
>
>As best I can tell, you have to actually kill and restart the
>automounter (yuck).  Is this really true?  If so, it orphans any
>existing auto-mounted file systems, so they are not unmounted until
>the next reboot.  So you may as well reboot the machine anyway.
>Please tell me it ain't so.
>
>Thanks
>Fletcher

If you add auto.master to your NIS maps, the changes are seen by automounter after a make.
Here's the lines for your Makefile to do it:

auto.master.time: $(DIR)/auto.master
        $(MAKEDBM) $(DIR)/auto.master $(YPDBDIR)/$(DOM)/auto.master;
        @touch auto.master.time;
        @echo "updated auto.master";
        @if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then $(YPPUSH) -d $(DOM) auto.master; fi
        @if [ ! $(NOPUSH) ]; then echo "pushed auto.master"; fi

Add this line to bottom of the Makefile:

auto.master: auto.master.time

And add auto.master to your all: statement.

Good luck!
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From: jpd@discovery.msu.edu (Joe P. DeCello)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/ttytab
Date: 2 Sep 92 18:36:41 GMT
Reply-To: jpd@discovery.msu.edu
Organization: Michigan State University

In article 21804@meaddata.com, mah@meaddata.com (Michael Henderson) writes:
> When I remove the secure entry from the console line in the ttytab file, or 
> change secure to insecure, the workstation requires a password when
> booting single user. This is what I want it to do, but this also causes
> root logins on the console not to be allowed. Is there a way to have a
> password required upon a single user boot, but still allow root login 
> on the console when up muli-user? I have left the secure option on for 
> the ptys so root can login remotely once up multi-user.
> 
> Thanks for any input.
> 
> 
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Leave the "secure" in the console entry of /etc/ttytab and
add the following to the end of /.profile

login root

It's been a while, so try this first before depending upon it.
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From: desouza@math.berkeley.edu (Paulo de Souza)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Transcript 3.0 with an Apple Laser II f
Date: 30 Aug 1992 07:47:23 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Math. Department.
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: math.berkeley.edu


I am trying to install Transcript 3.0 on a Sparc to talk to an Apple
Laser Writer IIf, and I think I got most of it right (all programs 
and PPD files, etc ...) . I can even send smale files to the printer
and they get digested all right, but when I send something big (more
than a couple of pages) I get the following error:

	psif: printer sync problem [2] ()
	psif: printer sync problem [3] ()

for which I can find no answer. The right PPD file is there and the 
software finds it all right. The speedsa are matched ....

Anybody out there has any ideas on what is going on ????????

Paulo de Souza 				desouza@math.berkeley.edu
From: pwh@bradley.bradley.edu (Pete Hartman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: What version of OpenWindows comes with SunOS 4.1.3?
Date: 2 Sep 92 16:49:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: bradley.1992Sep2.164901.28856
Distribution: usa
Organization: Bradley University

In <2AA4E2B8.48B@deneva.sdd.trw.com> jumper@spf.trw.com (Greg Jumper) writes:
>We received our first copy of SunOS 4.1.3 yesterday; as with 4.1.2, the media
>has preceded the release notes.  Since several others have already posted
>about having installed 4.1.3, you might be able to answer these questions:
>     1)  Does 4.1.3 have OpenWindows 3.n.m bundled, or does it still have
>         Ow2.0 as a transition, like 4.1.2 did?  If OW3.n.m, is it 3.0, or
>         (hopefully) 3.0.1 or higher, such as is bundled with Solaris 2.0.

The Jewel Case says "with OpenWindows 3".
-- 
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From: bernard@sirius.gte.com (Bernard Silver)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: /etc/ttytab
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:14:09 GMT
Organization: GTE Laboratories Incorporated
In-reply-to: mah@meaddata.com's message of 1 Sep 92 15:14:37 GMT

In article <1992Sep1.151437.21804@meaddata.com> mah@meaddata.com (Michael Henderson) writes:

   When I remove the secure entry from the console line in the ttytab file, or 
   change secure to insecure, the workstation requires a password when
   booting single user. This is what I want it to do, but this also causes
   root logins on the console not to be allowed. Is there a way to have a
   password required upon a single user boot, but still allow root login 
   on the console when up muli-user?

You could set security-mode=command in the eeprom (on sparcstations
anyway).  You then need to supply a PROM password for any command
at the prom except for straight booting.  If a person attempts to
boot single user, they will need to supply the PROM password.  Then
you can leave the "secure" entry for console in /etc/ttytab and
root logins will be allowed.


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				GTE Laboratories
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				(617) 466-2663
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From: stevens@madvlsi.columbia.edu (Andy Stevens)
Subject: Re: Splitting an NIS domain across a router.
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:50:25 GMT
X-Posted-From: canada.madvlsi.columbia.edu
X-Posted-Through: sol.ctr.columbia.edu

In article <1992Aug31.145450.24666@uunet.uu.net!mercomp>, blu@uunet.uu.net!mercomp (Brian Utterback) writes:
|> We are in the process of splitting our current network into two, a
|> production network and a test network.  I don't know much about the
|> workinfs of NIS, so bear with me if this is a stupid question, but
|> how do I set up NIS under such a configuration?  Would it be best
|> to have two masters or what?  If I had two masters, how should I keep
|> them in sync?  Any one have a similar setup?

Just set up several slave servers on both sides of the router.

--andy
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