HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: guy@Auspex.COM (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Using monitor/kbd/mouse with console set to ttya?
Date: 10 Oct 92 23:00:46 GMT
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara

>I also have a monitor and a keyboard/mouse attached and would like to
>run X windows with it. Unfortunately, the above mentioned eeprom
>settings somehow disable /dev/kbd and /dev/mouse. Running
>
>	perl -e 'open(X, "/dev/kbd") || die "$!\n"'
>
>shows that the keyboard isn't accessible anymore. Any ideas what's
>going on?

What's going on is that SunOS's "console configuration" code figures
that, if the console input and output devices are ttys, the machine is a
headless machine - no monitor, keyboard, or mouse - and doesn't set up
the "/dev/kbd" and "/dev/mouse" devices.

You'd have to set them up yourself (it involves some amount of STREAMS
fu, which I don't have time to detail right now).

You *also* don't get "/dev/fb" set up, as I remember, so you'd have to
tell the X11 server what frame buffer device to use.
From: debra@acc.com (Debra Tivetsky)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: need termcap entries
Date: 15 Oct 92 20:24:28 GMT
Organization: ACC, Advanced Computer Communications


I am looking for Wyse-60, VT220 and VT240 termcap
entries that include mapping of the function keys.

They will be used to enable Macintoshes running
terminal emulation software to access MFG-PRO 
business software on a SPARC-2.

Please email responses to me and I will summarize.


Debra Tivetsky,    debra@acc.com
Advanced Computer Communications
From: pliuskon@intellistor.com (Saul Pliuskonis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: giant packet
Date: 8 Oct 92 21:32:28 GMT
Distribution: comp.sys.sun.admin
Organization: Intellistor, Inc.

In <KAM.92Oct8090407@moe.tulmath.math.uno.edu> kam@tulmath.math.uno.edu (Katherine Hosch) writes:

>Sorry if this is a FAQ -- I'm sure I have seen reference to it in the past, 
>but then I didn't have the problem!  I have a smallish network of (mostly)
>Suns, and they are forever complaining that, e.g.:

>Oct  6 14:42:22 moe vmunix: le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>Oct  6 14:42:22 moe vmunix: le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared
>Oct  6 14:42:22 moe vmunix: le0: Receive: giant packet from ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
>Oct  6 14:42:22 moe vmunix: le0: Receive: STP in rmd cleared

>Would someone please tell me the fix?

>Thanks!

>-- katherine hosch

We have seen this message on our network too.  I would also be interested in
its origin and a fix for it.

Saul
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Subject: Re: 3270 Terminal Emulation
Organization: /home/theory/ignatios/.organization
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 14:48:37 GMT

Yes....

ask archie for 'tn3270', which is telnet enhanced with the 3270 emulation
negotiation. If you can't find any one nearer to you, look in 
ftp@olymp.informatik.uni-bonn.de:pub/network/telnet/tn3270.{README,tar.Z}

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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: mcdono@nosc.mil (Tim McDonough CSC )
Subject: Problem dd'in tar file off exabyte tape
Keywords: 
	I want to copy a tar file from one exabyte tape to another. 
	I've been using dd/cpio to copy the single tar file 
	with little luck. I've tried ibs/bs=8196 . Tar has no 
	problem extracting the files. 
Reply-To: mcdono@nosc.mil
Organization: NCCOSC, NRaD Division
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 20:58:05 GMT

fizzle 18> /usr/bin/dd if=/dev/rst9 files=1 of=/dev/rst6 
st1:	Error for command 'read', Error Level: 'Fatal'
    	Block: 0	File Number: 0
    	Sense Key: No Additional Sense
	Incorrect Length Indicator Set
dd: read: I/O error
0+0 records in
0+0 records out


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Computer Sciences Corp.         |   do not reflect those of my employer
mcdono@sunspot.nosc.mil         |   or the Susquehanna Hat Company.
From: yaosenko@acsu.buffalo.edu (Yaosen Ko)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: What to do when /etc/fstab is corrupted? --- SOLVED!
Date: 14 Oct 92 01:13:16 GMT
Organization: UB

Hi,

The problem of corrupted /etc/fstab is solved.  After jumping into
single user mode upon booting, the following command was issued to
make the root directory filesystem writable:

/sbin/mount -o remount,rw /dev/sd0a /

Thanks for all the help.  Due to the _overwhelming_ number of mails
I received,  it's too hard to to reply to each one of you.  I can only
say, THANK YOU ALL.
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: Gary Kakazu <kakazu@cornell.edu>
Subject: kernel mods for using > 1 gig disk
Nntp-Posting-User: gk10@cornell.edu
X-Date: Wed, 14 Oct 92 19: 28:18 GMT
Organization: Cornell Network Resources
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d3
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 18:23:42 GMT

I vaguely remember seeing some threads about kernel mods for 4.1.1 when
using a disk greater than 1 gig.  Is there such a mod, and if so, where
can I find it?

Thanks,
Gary Kakazu
kakazu@cornell.edu
From: wargopl@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Peter L. Wargo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: ** HELP ** Tape Drive Problem
Date: 12 Oct 92 13:02:52 GMT
Organization: Clarkson University

jgraham@cs.uah.edu (Jay Graham) writes:

>I've got a problem with my tape drive and I hoping
>someone in net-land can help me out.

>Problem:
>  When I connect the SCSI cable and power to my
>  tape drive controller card, I get the following error 
>  message when I boot my system:

>  "invalid status msg = FFFFFFFF"

Funny, I get this message when I try to boot from my 60M tape...
(SC4000/Wangtek on a 3/50)

-Pete

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From: andy@acorn.co.uk (Andy Ingle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: YP not accessing DNS
Date: 14 Oct 92 13:31:01 GMT
Organization: Acorn Computers Limited, Cambridge, UK

horn@tegan.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Horn) writes:

>I've scanned the man pages and discovered that there is an option to ypserv
>that will have it access the DNS when doing host lookup.  In /etc/rc.local
>I have ypserv setup to start as 'ypserv -d'. 

You also need to modify the Makefile in /var/yp.  There should be a
line near the beginning containing just "B=".  Change this to "B=-b",
then force a rebuild of the hosts database by removing the hosts.time
file and running make.

--Andy
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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: 'cron' may fail again at the Daylight Savings Time switch 25-Oct-92
Summary: Bug in 4.1.2 and prior, fixed in 4.1.3
Keywords: cron, die, daylight, savings, time
Date: 13 Oct 92 01:44:08 GMT
Organization: BT Tymnet, San Jose, CA

Here is a reminder to everyone who is not running the patched version of 'cron'.
The problems the old 'cron' has in October are not as bad as the problems it
has in April, but you might as well upgrade before the switch anyway.

Here is the README file from the patch:

Patch-ID# 100520-01
Synopsis: SunOS 4.1.1: Cron dies when daylight savings time STARTS/STOPS
Keywords: cron, die, daylight, savings, time
Date: 2/Mar/92
 
SunOS release:  4.1.1
 
Topic: daylight savings time causes problems for cron
 
BugId's fixed with this patch:  1031907

Architectures for which this patch is available: sun3 & sun4 (all)

Patches which may conflict with this patch: n/a 

Note: 

Obsoleted by:

Problem Description: 
   If there are cron events scheduled for the time that will disappear
   when daylight savings time starts, they will be scheduled for a time
   practically in future infinity.  This is because timelocal() returns
   -1 if given a gmt that falls into the 'non-existant' time period.
   This value of -1 was being used as the 'next time' of the event.
   As far as time values go, it's either a very long time ago or some
   time far into the future.

   Note that 'at' will not allow you to schedule jobs during this
   time period.

   With this patch, jobs that would fall into this 'offset' period are
   scheduled `later', e.g. the daylight-savings-time offset is added
   to their event time. If the offset is one hour, for example, then
   one hour is added.  If there are cron jobs scheduled for the
   hour following the 'offset' period, those jobs will also be run
   during the same hour.


INSTALL:

1) Login as root

2) Kill cron:
   a) ps -aux | egrep cron
   b) note the process ID (pid) of cron
   c) kill -TERM <pid>

3) cp /usr/etc/cron /usr/etc/cron.FCS

4) cp `arch`/cron /usr/etc/cron

5) restart cron

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From: harish@zen.cac.stratus.com (Harish Manchaiah)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks....what does it mean?
Keywords: Sparc490, xdballoc, dblks
Date: 16 Oct 92 23:16:46 GMT

Hi,
	We have a Sparc490 running 4.1.1. I noticed following messages in 
	/var/adm/messages file.

	vmunix: xdballoc: out of dblks

	I don't have a clue what it means. Can anyone help me with this??

Thanks in advance for any help,

-harish

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Marlboro, Mass.
From: barnesm@vavau.Corp.Sun.COM (Mark Barnes - SMCC/CTE/OS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: cpio -p corrupted links?
Date: 14 Oct 92 23:57:35 GMT
Reply-To: barnesm@vavau.Corp.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: vavau.corp.sun.com


In article 719105763@labtam, iand@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Ian Donaldson) writes:
>But why can't it just use the whole 32 bit inode-number?  
>I mean, hey, the (pre SVR4) cpio format doesn't have to be used *internally* 
>for implementing the cpio -p operation.  Hence there is no need
>for an internal limitation.  

There are a whole lot of cpio tapes and files out there that will no longer be
readable if you change the cpio format.  The format of headers allows for an
inode number of only 16 bits.  When reading cpio-created files, there's nowhere
to get the other 16 bits.

--------------------------------+---------------------------------------
Mark Barnes, System Engineer    |  <insert standard disclaimers here>
SUN Microsystems Computer Corp. |
Corporate Technical Escalations |  I speak for myself, an individual,
Menlo Park, CA, USA             |  not for the company for which I work.
barnesm@vavau.Corp.Sun.COM      |
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se (Torsten Lif)
Subject: Re: Plenty of free space on drive, but 100%
Reply-To: etxorst@eos.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Telecom AB
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 13:17:20 GMT

In article 14053@inmos.co.uk, hughm@brwah.inmos.co.uk (Hugh McIntyre) writes:
>In article <TIBBS.92Oct7003200@bifur.math.uh.edu>, tibbs@bifur.math.uh.edu (Jason L Tibbitts III) writes:
>This behaviour has been the same since at least SunOS 3.5.
>
>|> Any ideas?  (Please let it not be the 'ol "backup and restore"!)
>
>It's normal.  You don't have to do anything.  If you do want to put more
>stuff in /usr then root can create stuff up to 110%, otherwise you will have
>to repartition the disk.

Or you can newfs the partition with -m 0 which will get rid of the 10 %
loss. But net.wisdom has it the disk performance will be abyssimal when
you get to where that space is used, due to fragmentation & thrashing.
And of course, doing a newfs does entail doing a backup (dump) first
and then reading it back with restore after the newfs. }:->

>Hugh McIntyre.
>Memory Design, INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.

---
 Torsten Lif
 Ericsson Telecom AB, EO/ETX/TX/AD
 S-126 25  STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN
 Phone: +46 8 719 4881

Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: kenneth@rss.dl.nec.com (Kenneth East)
Subject: Re: Help needed attaching 10BaseT workstation to thinnet
Keywords: TPE ethernet 10BaseT thinnet
Reply-To: kenneth.east@rss.dl.nec.com
Organization: NEC America
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 23:24:45 GMT

In article <1bga0iINN76k@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu>, warlock@ecst.csuchico.edu (John Kennedy) writes:
|> 
|>   Go out, get some RJ45 connectors and some twisted-pair cable and make your
|> own from the pinouts.
|> 

We did exactly that.  It turns out that the cable from Sun that comes with
the SS10 is pin-to-pin.  The original crossover cable that we used was 
incorrectly wired.  Working from the pinouts in the Sun documentation, we
were able to create a cable that worked correctly.

Thanks for your help.

		--kenneth
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: derosa@rtsg.mot.com (John DeRosa)
Subject: Tutorial on SLIP?
Reply-To: motcid!derosa@uunet.uu.net
Organization: Motorola Inc., Cellular Infrastructure Group
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1992 18:05:18 GMT

I am an intermediate System Administrator and 
have a user that is taking an extended leave
for medical reasons and wants to run x-windows
from home on a PC.  He can get ahold of the X
programs for the PC and the IP stuff but vendors
are telling him that he needs a slip process
running on the sun side.

Can anyone give me some ideas how to make this 
work?  Thanks.  BTW, we have a modem up and 
running for dial in but it only supports
a single dial in shell.

- John
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: marquis@netcom.com (Roger Marquis)
Subject: Re: exabyte write errors
Organization: Netcom 
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 17:05:34 GMT

In article <1avbucINN8em@roche.csl.sri.com> matkins@cisco.com (Mathew Atkins) writes:
>
>A few weeks ago there was a mini thread about exabyte write erors.
>I forget what the upshot was. We have exabyte 8500's on multiple
>platforms, are using data grade tapes, cleaning the drives, and still
>still get write errors too frequently. Was there something about
>getting eeprom upgrades for the drives?
>-Mat

What program are you using to write to which device?  If 'dd' you
might try specifying a different block size.  I believe you can use
50K successfully.  You might also try a different drive (if available)
with the same tapes to isolate any potential hardware problem.

Roger (marquis@netcom.com)
From: tm8t+@andrew.cmu.edu (Tod McQuillin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Yet another format.dat request
Date: 16 Oct 92 12:12:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: andrew.Aerm8Em00WB6MGkqRZ
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA

Boy do I feel stupid posting another in a long line of requests for a
format.dat specification.  But I must admit I am at a loss.  I have a
DEC RZ57 I'd like to hook up to a Sun IPX; does anyone know what kind
of disk an RZ57 really is?

If not, do you have the vital stats I need to format this disk under
SunOS?

--tod
From: ahalim@ics.uci.edu
Subject: System crash - out of mblks ??
Date: 14 Oct 92 18:20:59 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin


Our system running SunOS 4.1.2 has been experiencing crashes recently
with consistent error messages. Here are the first several lines from
'dmesg' output:

Oct 14 11:10
vel 7), pri 7 (sbus level 4)
stc0: using softint pri 20
esp0:   Taloc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
b/s max transmit rate
esp0:   Target 5 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate
esp0:   Target 5 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate
esp0:   Target 5 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate
esp0:   Target  of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
xmballoc: onow Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate
esp0:   Target 5 now Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s maxalloc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblks
xmballoc: out of mblk Synchronous at 3.572 mb/s max transmit rate

Can someone point to me what caused the crash?

thanks
/aha
From: bfong@btr.btr.com (Beda Fong bfong@btr.com)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: libc resolver for sun3 sunos 4.1.1
Date: 9 Oct 92 08:03:45 GMT
Organization: BTR

Hello,

Could someone help and tell me where on the net could I 
find the libc with the resolver for sun3 running sunos 4.1.1?
(uunet only had it for sunos 4.0.3)

Please send mail to me directly as I do not read this group on 
a regular basis:

	bfong@btr.com

Thanks in advance,
Beda Fong
From: dem@zurich.spectrospin.ch (Marco A.Demarmels)
Newsgroups: ch.sun-managers,comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: uucp over tcp/ip
Keywords: uucp tcp/ip internet
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:10:01 GMT
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Spectrospin AG, Fallanden Switzerland

Hi netlanders,

after a reasonable amount of RTFM, including the Sun Answerbook
I give up finally and hope to find a more experienced sysadmin
to help me out:

: 54 dem@zurich:/usr/lib/uucp> Uutry -r1 -x9 bii
: ./uucico -r1 -sbii  -x9 >/tmp/bii 2>&1&
: tmp=/tmp/bii
: mchFind called (bii)
: list (rmail) num = 1
: list (/) num = 1
: list (/) num = 1
: list (ALL) num = 1
: _Request (TRUE), _Switch (TRUE), _CallBack (FALSE), _MyName (), _Commands ALL
: chdir(/var/spool/uucp/bii)
: conn(bii)
: Retry time set to 0 minutes
: Device Type TCP wanted
: ProtoStr = et
: Internal caller type TCP
: tcpdial host bii.bruker.com, port 540
: family: 2
: port: 540
: addr: c0844603
: set interface TCP
: processdev: calling setdevcfg(uucico, TCP)
: getto ret 6
: chat: TCGETA failed, errno 45
: expect: ("") 
: got it
: sendthem (BREAK
: ^M)
: expect: (in:)
: login:got it
: sendthem ([ correct login id ... ]^M)
: expect: (ssword:)
:  Password:got it
: sendthem ([ correct password ... ]^M)
: imsg > Login incorrect.imsg >imsg >imsg >imsg >imsg >imsg >imsg [...]

/etc/uucp/Systems reads:

bii Any;0 TCP - bii.bruker.com "" \K in:-\r-in:-\r-in: [ rest omitted ]

It is in the chat script, but no combination whatsoever would
change the error msg line, reading 'chat: TCGETA failed, errno 45'

TCGETA is related to ioctl()/termio(), that's all I have.

Any pointers welcome, I'll summarize.

(BTW: Sun 4/280, SunOS 4.1.1, Internet Gateway: NetBlazer)


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From: jc@raven.bu.edu (James F. Cameron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: Re: Backup copilot problems .....
Date: 12 Oct 92 14:14:08 GMT
Article-I.D.: parrot.JC.92Oct12101408
	<1992Oct12.123341.9116@maths.tcd.ie>
Organization: What do you mean 'That *can't* be done????'
In-reply-to: sboyle@maths.tcd.ie's message of 12 Oct 92 12:33:41 GMT


>>>>> "Dr.Gonzo" == doctorgonzo  <sboyle@maths.tcd.ie> writes:

  Dr.Gonzo> Organisation: Universal Media Netweb (Ireland) Inc.

  Dr.Gonzo> janet@cs.uwa.oz.au (Janet Jackson) writes:

[...]

  Dr.Gonzo> I'm having almost the same problem on our Exabyte 8200.
  Dr.Gonzo> dump fails with a "Tape write error 35 feet into tape 1"
  Dr.Gonzo> on _four_ different tapes, and always at 35 feet!  We're
  Dr.Gonzo> waiting for some servoids to come out and take our tape
  Dr.Gonzo> drive to be checked up, but if anyone's come across a
  Dr.Gonzo> patch that'll fix this, I'd love to know.

[...]

Have you done an fsck on the partition you are attempting to dump?  I
have run into a similiar problem where the filesystem was in pretty
bad shape and needed to be fsck'ed before it could be dumped.  

Hope this helps!

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From: nicolai@runner.prz.tu-berlin.de (Nicolai Leymann)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
Subject: booting a sparc from floppy ?
Date: 12 Oct 92 21:29:18 GMT
Organization: TU-Berlin TUBKOM, Germany

Dear Netters,

I'm trying to boot a SPARC-Station IPX from floppy. Booting the kernel
from the floppy works fine but problem is, that the kernel is looking 
for the root filesystem on the floppy. Is it possible to change this
behaviour in a way, that the kernel is using a rootfilesystem (and swap)
from a harddisk (eg. sd0 or sd3) ?

So can anyone help ?

          Thanks in advance

                  Nic
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
From: cnwietho@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Carsten Wiethoff)
Subject: Harware flow control on serial lines
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 09:14:36 GMT

I am trying to use BIDIRECTIONAL hardware flow control on the builtin
serial ports of a Sparcstation 1+ (Clone). The sending side works ok, when
using stty crtscts, that is if cts drops, output stops.

Unfortunately the input side does not work, if there are more characters
than the Sun can handle, they will get lost.
Is this a known problem? A FAQ? Is there a solution?

Ultimately I want to connect to a high speed modem and have a full 8bit
path with flow control. How do other people connect their modems?

Carsten Wiethoff
pwi@psun3.hmi.de
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin